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AP Proposes ASCAP-Like Fees For the News
eldavojohn writes "Techdirt directed my attention to an article where the AP discussed pressure from new devices and mediums today giving them cause to create a clearinghouse for news — much like the music industry's ASCAP — to 'establish an enforcement and payment system.' You'll notice that the story I am linking to and quoting is an AP story ... would Slashdot then be required to pay these fees? We have seen DMCA take down notices and fee discussions before from the AP."
Sorry, but the "right" and "left" lost their meaning in late 20th century. What you have in the US are two neocon parties, both authoritative, one with a populist theme and the other with a religious one. Neither is more "rightist" or "leftist" beyond the surface.
Both are strongly anti-personal rights. Dems do promote one particular alternative sexual variant they randomly picked among all the others -- just because it happened to be politically correct these days. How is homosexuality different from sex with adolescents, zoophilia, group marriage or such? And why they insist on people being not allowed to defend themselves? Or why they are against free speech even more than Repugnicants? Or the right to privacy -- Bush did illegally wiretap but at least tried to hide it, while Obama dares to claim it's the "right thing to do".
The US is going down the shitter very, very fast. And you can't even stop that by voting as there's not even a "lesser evil" anymore: there's just a populist-colored big evil and a religion-colored big evil.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.