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Cory Doctorow vs Canadian MP on "Canadian DMCA"

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It's so frustrating trying to talk with someone making important decisions about things they really don't fully comprehend.

You quickly feel out the bounds of their knowledge and figure out that they're just repeating the key marketing points.

How can people walk around not giving a fuck about how things actually work? I really just can't comprehend that lack of thirst for knowledge.

MP James Moore understands the issue just fine. His government's SOP is to repeat self-serving lies ad nauseam until they become true through sheer attrition.

The government conducted a year of extensive, detailed consultation after the public overwhelmingly rejected their earlier attempt to impose a DCMA-style copyright law in Canada.

After the consultation was over, the Cabinet couldn't reconcile the clear message from the public that Canadians want a balanced copyright law that reflects our rights as creators, consumers and citizens with the clear message from the corporate content industry that they want law-enforced anticircumvention.

Not surprisingly to anyone, the government broke the stalemate by ramming through the industry demand and dismissing all the public consultation.

Moore is just the government's hatchet man.

I dunno. His whole "BluRay + Regular DVD" analogy leads me to believe that he is really that clueless.

> mpjamesmoore: @doctorow "let the consumers decide what they want" is my position.

What a hypocrisy.

Determining what consumers wanted was the goal of having public consultations. It worked out that consumers didn't want what the (heavily lobbied) government officials wanted, so whatever the public said was quietly ignored and they proceeded pushing for a bill that they had.

"Let the consumers decide what they want" my ass.

How on earth is an image of the back-and-forth tweets any kind of improvement on, you know, the text of the back-and-forth tweets?

I agree. You can see it here in text with links and all that: http://bettween.com/mpjamesmoore/doctorow/desc (Note: you have to keep clicking "More" at the bottom to see the whole exchange.)

As correct as Cory Doctorow is, his rhetoric is pretty bad. There are far better ways to convince someone instead of just repeating your original point in slightly different words.

I sent an email to my MP (Bob Rae). Never got a response, but I hope it was read. I really like how James Moore is willing to talk with his opposition-- even though his opposition, in this case, is not a constituent.

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