Comment on Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week ago
Sounds quite dystopian, setting a precedent for either (or both) the host being considered accomplice for any wrongdoings of any third parties, and/or inducing hosting companies to become informal polices. And it comes in quite a curious time, when the EU is trying to push for chat control, some US states are trying to push for AI surveillance cameras, Brazil passed a law that requires apps to do facial recognition, GrapheneOS is being targeted by French news media, and all those using potential crimes and cherry-picking cases to justify.
People believing in public pressure and grass roots should understand that these don’t work.
Power works, and it depends on what’s possible and what’s not. Surveillance and censorship over these means is possible, takes power and makes one more powerful. Hence it happens.
Technical affect on social matters is slow, we’re seeing it only now. Want different trees - build different genes.
No conspiracy is required.
I agree that holdibg hosts liable for user actions is a real slippery slope, in this case it seems to be a result of Cloudflare not following up a previously agreed upon settlement with the publishers in 2019. If you agree to remove the content, and then don’t do it, then further suits are to be expected.
However the article does not go into further details about the specifics of the 2019 settlement, so it’s hard to conclude if this is a classic fuck around and find out or just a further step of IP-holders going after everything and anything willy nilly
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Canada is attempting to pass age verification with bill s-209 and Spain bans Graphene from being used in Catalonia.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Are you sure Spain band graphene? AFAIK police are merely biased against graphene because they presume drug dealers use it.