The German government decided on a new, extremely strict copyright reform
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Orig (DE): https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/urheberrecht-gesetz-bundesr...
Translate (EN): https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
I really don't know what to do about it anymore. Sure, I can work around all this. I wouldn't be bothered by a censored internet either, mostly because i had the opportunity to learn how to route around it while that information wasn't censored yet. But it doesn't have to work for everyone, it's enough that it works for the 90% of people who didn't care and can't do any better.
This is frustrating to me and i honestly don't know what to do about this anymore. "I have nothing to hide" has become the only response i get from older people whom i try to explain why they are being abused and tracked without their knowledge. Why the ever extending reach of the state into their private lives and the ever increasing scope of surveillance and control is a really bad Idea if you want civil liberties to prevail. They. do. not. care.
I don't know what i can do to stop this anymore...
The main thing about copyright to understand would be:
Is there such ‘right’ at all?
Is it a ‘right’ if you think about it?
>I don’t know what I can do to stop this anymore ...
This level of frustration people has experienced in Ukraine during Maidan protests. Turned out that ‘peoaceful’ protest is effective only if the other side is smart enough and wish to listen. But if the other side is dumb enough and considers ‘peaceful’ protest as a ‘green light’ to do whatever they want (Look for beating peaceful people in Belarus recently and now in Russia) then it looks like ‘Maidan’ techniques are more effective. So for example you can look and learn how Ukrainians stood for their rights against power abuse and attempts of pushing dictatorship laws through the parliament.
I like to use this example: Can someone be eaten by the others if they vote for it?
In such case I think it is clear what a person in question should do to protect his ‘right for life’
‘Majority dictatorship’ is not my expectation of how modern democracy should function.
I don't disagree from a philosophical perspective, I disagree from a practical one. Majority dictatorship is only avoided in modern democracies through two processes: existing constitutional laws that are enforced and protected by a court system and the majority will to not oppress people just because they can.
If something like the internet is new enough that neither existing laws protect you, nor a majority exists with enough care and understanding about the issue to create new protections, governments will inevitably censor, silence and enslave the minority that yearns for that freedom. If the majority doesn't care, the powers that be have always and will always use excessive force and laws to suppress the minority, see Marijuana, Gay Marriage, Women's rights, Police Reform etc.
I see a dark time for the internet ahead of us. It will take time for generations of people who refuse to understand what the internet is to die of, before new generations can learn from the failures of the previous generation and enshrine new protections into law. As long as people decide on these issues, that see the internet as a nuisance to be dealt with and not a whole world to explore and enrich your life with, there won't be any progress made toward a liberal, free internet and ever much more towards a more fascist control of the internet.
The part about pushing this through under the radar is particularly frustrating. At least we are getting daily news about coronavirus and antisemitism.
Good German article: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/uploadfilter-und-bagatel...
Google Translate seems to do an okay job: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
And we're not even allowed to protest this publically. How convenient.