Comment by gerdesj | Hacker News Reader

Comment by gerdesj | Hacker News Reader

Especially Article 13 is dangerously experimenting with the core foundation of the Internet’s ecosystem. Making companies directly liable for the content of their users forces these businesses to make billions of legal decisions about the legality of content. Most companies are neither equipped nor capable of implementing the automatic content filtering mechanisms this requires, which are expensive and prone to error.

Crap grammar and rubbish sentence construction, whilst opining, will rarely make friends.

The letter is a dreadful example of how to not plead a case. It has several bold sections that are are shouty - use italics instead.

Although the purpose of these regulations is to limit the powers of big US Internet companies like Google or Facebook, This may be true but again it is not the way to take the moral high ground. Do you have proof of that assertion?

If I was one of those 130 businesses and was charged for that letter then I would feel seen off. I do own a small business in the UK and I will not put my tiny weight behind that rubbish. I acknowledge some of the issues mentioned are potentially a problem but the message is garbled so badly as to be unusable.

I see you're a novice to legal-ese, while pedantically forming your opinion based on... Sentence construction? Not the content?

I guess we'll just have to deal with a Europe without memes. We'll see only slower, mass-market-only creators on the internet. The small businesses, the artists, the actual innovators will have no seat at the table... because you cannot wrap you head around a multi-clause sentence.

If you're going to be that American about this, you can keep your Brexit.

On the off chance that you're here to learn instead of just quasi-Schrute-ing on everything? I would suggest you watch a couple documentaries: "Rip: A Remix Manifesto," and "Everything is a Remix," to learn how creativity works. Any efforts to restrict derivative works, such as from these small outlets, demolishes the human ability to create. These are creative commons works, so I trust you to find them without having to buy a DVD/bluray.

"Although the purpose of these regulations is to limit the powers of big US Internet companies like Google or Facebook"

This has been stated very explicitly by the law makers, so yeah, it wasn't hard to state that. I'm not even going to bother searching for that.

Over 210 companies have signed, as of now, and I still have quite a backlog of signatories to add.

Sorry that the English isn't perfect, it was not written by native speakers.

> The letter is a dreadful example of how to not plead a case.

Maybe you should reread your own comment, and apply your own advice.

Using things like "crap" and "rubbish" doesn't indicate that you would do a better job at writing that letter.

+1

Keep calm and pedant on.

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