I'm getting the idea that the author of this little article has been brainwashed into the idea that companies are *supposed* to save your data, after you ask them to delete it. That's pretty sad.
Delete my account, delete my data, please. That's what's supposed to happen in the first place.
Being able, as a human, to speak to other humans should be a required skill to graduate from public school. I don't think that's at all unreasonable. The number of kids today who have *anxiety* is either a direct result of phone addiction, or it's bullshit, or we've changed the definition of the word "anxiety" in the past few decades, and I didn't realize it. I think it's 100% fine to make children be able to speak to other children, in order to graduate high school.
That's a better question. I still don't know the answer to that one (nor do I care). People should (but won't) learn to use the Internet as it was intended. Most of the world are simply addicted to gadgets, "apps", and giant companies that prey on them online.
I'm a 40-something who just went back to school for another BS degree. I can't believe how many 18-20 somethings are *addicted* to their phones. It's much, much worse than I suspected. A lot of these kids freak out at doing *anything* that isn't an "app" on their phones. It's a really big societal problem that parents need to be aware of and address as early as possible.
I don't know. Not. My. Problem. You asking that is like asking, "How are people going to get their heroin if heroin is made illegal?" It's a nonsensical question.
How people use Youtube is completely irrelevant. It's a for-profit business, and they have to follow the laws. If Youtube can't continue to function the way they have been, then they can't continue to function they way they have been. [shrug]
No tell me, when several trillion more files are coming in to the system every day.. how are you supposed to find and evaluate the legality of every single file coming through?
That's not my fucking problem. That's Google/Facebook's problem. I don't fucking care what they do. Their servers, they should maintain them properly. If they have kiddie porn on their servers, that's their responsibility. If they have copyrighted stuff on their servers, that's their responsibility. So they won't be able to make billions of dollars anymore, because they have to pay people to keep their servers legal. So fucking what?
Because the goal is to merely host content in a dark room, rather than having your content seen by other people.
Exposure isn't free. You're paying for it with dollars to advertise, or by giving up all rights to your content (a la the "social media" sites). You don't have a right to have unlimited worldwide exposure... just because you want it to be so.
The big social media companies love this law. Because it makes it that much harder for some new upstart start-up to steal their eyeballs and profits.
How? I have a web site. It wasn't hard to do. It costs about $1/month.
If I want to start a "social media" site, I can do that too. I just have to make sure that people don't post copyrighted stuff on it, just like I do now on my own website.
Youtube. Google. Facebook. Sure, same thing.
If you put infringing content on your web site, you should be facing a lawsuit. That's the whole point of copyright. If somebody wants to take out a frivolous (and very expensive) lawsuit against an innocent person, that usually ends up very bad for the sue("er"?). If you don't put copyrighted stuff on the Net, then you really don't have anything to worry about.
A. Facebook is not the Internet. It's a shitty website that preys on stupid people.
B. Anybody can compete with Facebook. This law just says that you'll have to monitor the content, just like Facebook is going to have to do.
C. The Internet is alive and well for those with brains. For dummies who think the Internet is Facebook... well... they never really used the web... any more than the people who used AOL did.
I think this is a good law. It finally makes the "social media" sites police what's on their servers. They can and they should. They make have to make a few billion less dollars than before, but tough shit. I know exactly what's on my web server, and I'm responsible for it. These giant web sites can very easily do the same.
you have NO way to reinstate legitimate uploads of yur own creation
You're assuming the ONLY way to put content on the web is via the "social media" sites. That couldn't be further from the truth. You can post whatever you like on your own web site, without worrying about takedown requests.
You're bitching about Facebook, not the web. Don't use Facebook.
My business offers the public 100% free, untracked wi-fi. I think it's my moral obligation to offer a relatively untraceable public Internet connection.
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I'm getting the idea that the author of this little article has been brainwashed into the idea that companies are *supposed* to save your data, after you ask them to delete it. That's pretty sad.
Delete my account, delete my data, please. That's what's supposed to happen in the first place.
"total destruction of the free Internet."
That's simply not true. Stop lying.
Being able, as a human, to speak to other humans should be a required skill to graduate from public school. I don't think that's at all unreasonable. The number of kids today who have *anxiety* is either a direct result of phone addiction, or it's bullshit, or we've changed the definition of the word "anxiety" in the past few decades, and I didn't realize it. I think it's 100% fine to make children be able to speak to other children, in order to graduate high school.
I'm not really in the business of designing business models for other people to follow.
You might as well ask, "What about people who make screws for industrial looms? How are they going to make money?"
Uh, why are you asking me? That's not my problem.
That's a better question. I still don't know the answer to that one (nor do I care). People should (but won't) learn to use the Internet as it was intended. Most of the world are simply addicted to gadgets, "apps", and giant companies that prey on them online.
I'm a 40-something who just went back to school for another BS degree. I can't believe how many 18-20 somethings are *addicted* to their phones. It's much, much worse than I suspected. A lot of these kids freak out at doing *anything* that isn't an "app" on their phones. It's a really big societal problem that parents need to be aware of and address as early as possible.
Right. Leave the EU because you can't post copyrighted stuff on Youtube. Brilliant!
I don't know. Not. My. Problem. You asking that is like asking, "How are people going to get their heroin if heroin is made illegal?" It's a nonsensical question.
How people use Youtube is completely irrelevant. It's a for-profit business, and they have to follow the laws. If Youtube can't continue to function the way they have been, then they can't continue to function they way they have been. [shrug]
So what? I want a Ferrari and I don't want to pay for it.
So...?
Not. My. Problem. Sounds like a business model problem that they need to figure out.
No tell me, when several trillion more files are coming in to the system every day.. how are you supposed to find and evaluate the legality of every single file coming through?
That's not my fucking problem. That's Google/Facebook's problem. I don't fucking care what they do. Their servers, they should maintain them properly. If they have kiddie porn on their servers, that's their responsibility. If they have copyrighted stuff on their servers, that's their responsibility. So they won't be able to make billions of dollars anymore, because they have to pay people to keep their servers legal. So fucking what?
... and Google can afford to pay enough people to check that video, don't you think? And if they can't... how is that anybody else's problem?
Because the goal is to merely host content in a dark room, rather than having your content seen by other people.
Exposure isn't free. You're paying for it with dollars to advertise, or by giving up all rights to your content (a la the "social media" sites). You don't have a right to have unlimited worldwide exposure... just because you want it to be so.
Then that company can afford to hire enough people to police the content, too. It scales exactly the same (that's what "scale" means).
The big social media companies love this law. Because it makes it that much harder for some new upstart start-up to steal their eyeballs and profits.
How? I have a web site. It wasn't hard to do. It costs about $1/month.
If I want to start a "social media" site, I can do that too. I just have to make sure that people don't post copyrighted stuff on it, just like I do now on my own website.
Youtube. Google. Facebook. Sure, same thing.
If you put infringing content on your web site, you should be facing a lawsuit. That's the whole point of copyright. If somebody wants to take out a frivolous (and very expensive) lawsuit against an innocent person, that usually ends up very bad for the sue("er"?). If you don't put copyrighted stuff on the Net, then you really don't have anything to worry about.
A. Facebook is not the Internet. It's a shitty website that preys on stupid people.
B. Anybody can compete with Facebook. This law just says that you'll have to monitor the content, just like Facebook is going to have to do.
C. The Internet is alive and well for those with brains. For dummies who think the Internet is Facebook... well... they never really used the web... any more than the people who used AOL did.
I think this is a good law. It finally makes the "social media" sites police what's on their servers. They can and they should. They make have to make a few billion less dollars than before, but tough shit. I know exactly what's on my web server, and I'm responsible for it. These giant web sites can very easily do the same.
you have NO way to reinstate legitimate uploads of yur own creation
You're assuming the ONLY way to put content on the web is via the "social media" sites. That couldn't be further from the truth. You can post whatever you like on your own web site, without worrying about takedown requests.
You're bitching about Facebook, not the web. Don't use Facebook.
My business offers the public 100% free, untracked wi-fi. I think it's my moral obligation to offer a relatively untraceable public Internet connection.
And somehow we’re all ok with that.
"We" who? Speak for yourself. I don't think it's a sign of a healthy society (and I don't spend money on sports or entertainers).
And even so, what's your point? Something is bad, so something else bad is OK? C'mon, dude.
Modern societies have transportation that runs late into the night, or even 24/7.
What's so bad about a 15 minute walk? I'd prefer that to the hours I waste in a car every day.
Mass transit just can't compete with personal transportation, except in the very densest urban environments
Spoken as somebody who's never been out of the US, I'm willing to bet.