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> a country with internet hijacked by copyright predators

Yeah, thank god my country is not among this group. We have better things to do than police imaginary american property.

I remember reading a news article years ago about some MPAA lobbyist who came here to do his thing. A journalist asked him point blank if intellectual property should be a priority in a country that can barely manage to provide basic infrastructure for its entire population. People are literally hungry and yet this guy is here talking about copyright bullshit. I wish I could find this article again...

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This is an awful symptom of American cultural colonialism. They feed with one hand while slapping in the face with the other. Choke with your sitcoms and superheroes.

Yeah. And if you don't at least look like you're cooperating, the USA will put you in a literal naughty list of bad countries and develop "action plans" for dealing with it.

https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2019_Special_301_Report...

You can't just isolate yourself from them either without massive economic consequences. Even if you suffered through those consequences, they'll probably just force you to trade anyway just like they did with Japan once.

That's why Biden while being a relief to north-americans(and i completely agree) its worse for the rest of the world at least from the perspective of enforcing north-american policies and legislation worldwide (read big-co, intelligence agencies).

Given Trump focus on the internal affairs of the US, while the political climate was toxic at home, at least it let all others breath a little.

Now with Biden it will star all over again.. North-american companies, intelligence agencies, basically the status-quo interests being enforced all over..

At least now the government is caring about the environment and as while at home the policies are more left-leaning, i bet the will not be the same for foreign countries, and i expect things like copyright enforcement to gain more strength (basically all the traditional corporate and government bullies)

From the perspective of international political affairs its the resurgence of the good'ol "United Corporations of America" policy enforcement.

Not sure Biden should be a relief to US citizens either, he’s the author of the crime bill after all.

The only significant difference between him and Trump is aesthetic.

I agree completely.

Strangely, the term "two party system" might lead one to assume there's a meaningful difference in real-world policy outcomes. Sadly, this is all too rare and, in practice, the differences are mostly in the claimed intentions and not the delivered results.

As an American, please accept my apology for all uninvited interference in the economic and political affairs of other nations.

> As an American, please accept my apology for all uninvited interference in the economic and political affairs of other nations.

No need for apologies. This is all super complex, gigantic, out of our hands mess that is hard to make it advance even a little. I know how it feels.

But its good to know that you care, and that's the reason why we should never fall for cheap generalizations.

I couldn't believe Canada was on this list and just had to take a look, considering they're one of our closest allies. The entire section is a somber example of how screwed up our medical system is.

The section on Switzerland is just about how annoyed the government is at their privacy protections.

Basically the USA won't rest until the entire world becomes america. God forbid US corporations actually adapt to the countries they want to sell their products in. Better to leverage the US government's power in order to pressure other countries into adopting american laws.

For example, search the document for "right holder". It's full of this. Rights holders are concerned about this, rights holders are concerned about that... Why does some corporation's "concerns" matter at all? It's mind-boggling. This entire document is just an endless list of complaints from US corporations about countries that aren't playing by their rules. They want the US government to "fix" the other countries so they can turn a profit there.

It's even worse than that. They get other countries to make harsher laws than the US has, then when they try to pass similar laws in the US, they argue that it's just normalizing our laws with what other countries are doing...

I'm interested in links to any examples if you have some because this is a development I haven't heard of, and I am dartley curious

I'm not sure if this is what aidenn0 was talking about but I think Australia can be considered an example. The Five Eyes seem to be using Australia as some kind of legal testing ground. Not too long ago Australia introduced incredible laws such as legal requirements for companies to serve as state-sponsored malware vectors. Australian companies are now required to compromise the security of their own customers if so ordered by law enforcement. Presumably the other Five Eyes are watching to see how that plays out before attempting similar shenanigans. If it works, I have no doubt they'll use Australia as a shining example to justify implementing the same changes elsewhere.

My own country is an example. The government really likes to copy whatever it is developed countries are doing. Watching how other countries regulate stuff is a great way to predict what I might have to deal with in the future. We created our own GDPR after Europe did it. Telecommunications companies tried to lobby against net neutrality here citing the US as an "industry standard" example.

The Sonny Bono CTEA was passed under the reasoning of harmonizing US copyright terms with the EU after the EU's Copyright Duration Directive.

Team America World Police. Don't worry bro everything will be Bonj

Nah, it's a symptom of America mostly producing TV shows and Movies as opposed to actual physical products that people need or love in their lives.

That particular business (Hollywood) happens to also be the propaganda arm for the current power, so naturally it's protected ham-fistedly by policy makers.

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