Liberal MP Calls for Online News Act to Be Scrapped
I've long said the Online News Act needs to be scrapped. Now, I'm learning that at least one Liberal MP agrees with me now.
https://www.freezenet.ca/liberal-mp-calls-for-online-news-act-to-be-scrapped/
@wolf480pl @1br0wn @jmaris I totally share your frustration about having fight bad proposals like #ChatControl, #EUProtect, and #LinkTax over and over. I do this for a living. 
But consider this: how do we know that those bad proposals are unpopular? People keep on voting for far-right, conservative, and economically liberal majorities both nationally and in EU elections. The result is people in power who support mass surveillance and other rights-crushing policies.
I don't think most...
PS: As a IT guy, you should also understand, that actually cutting off an internet service that has millions of users that WANT to access it, it going to be very difficult.
Even more so, as few credible european alternatives exist, a fact not helped by europe caring more about legacy media companies than user rights which would be one of its few selling points. (Just remember the #uploadfilter and #linktax debacle.)
Europe dont see users as people having rights... it sees users as something that should be milked without rights from european companies instead of US ones. 
The #EuropeanUnion and the goverments of the member states have done very little in the last 2 decades that benefits me as an internet user but have done lot of things that violate my interests in multiple ways.
So I trust them even less than just the - wise - distrust anyone should have about even a democratically elected goverment.
Genauso wie bei #Uploadfiltern und #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax werden #niemehrcdu und #NieMehrSPD natürlich auch hier schon bald wieder eine Entscheidung gegen den gesunden Menschenverstand und gegen die Interessen der Bevölkerung treffen.
Freut Euch schon mal darauf, für Eure Urlaubsfotos in der Cloud Abgaben zahlen zu müssen.
Ieri sera mi è capitato di sentire in radio Gasparri sostenere la #LinkTax quale garanzia dell'indipendenza dell'informazione. Val la pena ricordare perché è una pessima idea.
"Saving the News From Big Tech" 
https://mastodon.cisti.org/@roughconsensusandrunningcode/110390636700711895
Mainstream Media Calls on Meta to Give Them Free Money
Following the CRTC approval of Google's Online News Act Exemption, the mainstream media demanded Meta to do the same thing.
https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-calls-on-meta-to-give-them-free-money/
@jmaris The individual author or publisher has near-zero bargaining power, no matter how important they are culturally, because their individual presence makes zero difference to Facebook's profits. Entire genres and sectors can be removed with zero effect on Facebook's bottom line, as shown by the #LinkTax fights.
Only collective action by all authors together would change this, but a global union doesn't seem likely. I suggest a compulsory license/income tax to fund education and libraries.
While I am all for more european sovereignty, I honestly have major doubts that a european actor would serve my interests as a user better than big tech.
Europes track record regarding user rights is mostly dissapointing. European politicians have made my digital life only worse in the last 20 years with #Uploadfilters, #LinkTax, forcing legay copyright rules onto the digital age and cannot be trusted with protecting users rights and privacy at all.
I have no interest in any european digital company gaining any significant market share, until it proves beyond doubt that it can be trusted more with my rights as a user than american big tech. Which to date, it has not.
I want the freedom to choose the digital companies that serve me and I will not tolerate buying/using a worse product, just because it is made in Europe.
@glynmoody I doubt that any special interest groups actually thought #linktax would deliver meaningful benefits. What was to be delivered is a precedent for not just the data, but the "coordinates" of the data, being a commodity rather than a a commons. That mission, very much accomplished. #pubwan
The #linktax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the #copyright industry - https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/ one that it will doubtless refuse to learn....
Canadian Government Says It Wants to Charge Meta for News Screenshots
The Canadian government is considering doubling down on the disaster that was the Online News Act. Says it might charge Meta for screenshots of news.
Everything about the Online News Act has been a predictable disaster.
https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-government-says-it-wants-to-charge-meta-for-news-screenshots/
#Kühnert fordert Prozenthürde nach Wahlklatsche
Genau, wenn man
2.490.000 Menschen so frustriert, dass sie #Nichtwähler werden, wenn man
1.450.000 Menschen an die #Union unter Friedich #Merz verliert,
580.000 an #sarahzarenknecht nochmal
570.000 an die #Nazis von der #FckAFD,
120.000 an die FDP und immer noch
80.000 an die Grünen,
dann sind natürlich die kleinen Parteien daran schuld, dass es für die #SPD nicht gut lief.
UnFunFact: Es gibt bereits eine Prozenthürde für die nächste #Europawahl, sobald Spanien sie auch ratifiziert hat. Sie wird mindestens 2 % und maximal 3,5 % betragen und es ist einfach zu erahnen, welche Präferenzen bezüglich der Höhe Kevin von der EX #Volkspartei diesbezüglich hätte.
"Wir müssen analysieren, warum uns junge Wähler nicht mögen". Ich gebe mal Nachhilfe:
#Uploadfilter
#Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax
#vorratsdatenspeicherung
#Chatkontrolle
Abhängigkeit von russland
Zerstören von #Wind und #Solar
Quelle:
https://youtu.be/VZy5tgCQLFg
Ich bin immer noch sauer wegen ihrer Zustimmung zu dem #Uploadfilter und #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax Desaster.
Auch sonst finde ich nicht, dass die SPD in den letzten 5 Jahren im Europaparlament relevantes erreicht hätte. Genauso nutzlos wie die #SPD im Bund.
Disgusting: Liberal Party Politicizes Wildfires to Push Link Tax
The wildfire season this year is looking to be horrible, but the Liberal party is turning it into a political opportunity to push the
https://www.freezenet.ca/disgusting-liberal-party-politicizes-wildfires-to-push-link-tax/
@alecmuffett I think #LinkTax is bs and should be illegal.
Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them | Malcolm Coles
https://alecmuffett.com/article/109703
#LinkTax #OpenWeb #stupid
Ach ne, die Link-Steuer in Canada hat negative Auswirkungen auf die Zeitungsverlage? Das hat ja niemand kommen sehen …
"New Zealand is far, far too small to bring the likes of Netflix, Google and Facebook to heel. California for example, is said to be the fifth largest economy in the world. Yet Meta and Google are threatening to cut off news items (and searches) about California if the state proceeds with... legislation [that] would require the social media giants to pay a “journalism useage fee” for linking to news sites based in California."
#GordonCampbell, 2024
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2404/S00041/on-fast-track-powers-media-woes-and-the-tiktok-ban.htm
