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Comment Re:Play stupid games (Score 1) 132

With software it's quite easy to claim you have never seen the source code and have worked from just a spec you have received.

Not so with things like stories and music, those have evolved over a long time and if you just looked far back enough, then similarities would be found that would stick in a court. And you can't claim to have grown up independent of human culture, someone like that would function on the level of a chimp.

Comment Re:Play stupid games (Score 3, Insightful) 132

>If I write a book I want every dime of profit resulting from my work forever. It's my work,

In a world with infinite copyrights your book would be found to be derivative or earlier works, and the ownership would not be given to you, but instead to parties that have inherited the rights to works written thousands of years ago.

Comment Re:I seem to recall a time, (Score 1) 402

unless of course you grow to big and too lax on allowing people to say what they want. What was this company name that got booted out of their hired servers for being too big and too nasty? Quite frankly I do no give a ff. as long as the lunies leave me alone. But here is the problem, they will not do that. It starts with company I work for where I have to participate in alphabet people celebrations (not sure why that has to be done at work and if it has to then why certain majority is excluded from celebrations) and goes smoothly over to school where my kids are indoctrinated. Humans never change. Once in a few decades comes an a...le or a bunch of them and try to produce a "new man". It always ends up in tears. When I am to be honest I must say that the commies I knew back in the old days were less obnoxious than the modern woke versions. Maybe it is time and I just do not feel this old pain in the arse anymore. I am just wondering - why cutting the service for some real bad people should stop at some media company. What about banking services? Or water supply?

Comment Re:have fun with that (Score 1) 402

Indeed these to cases are almost the same. I use my rights when I wave my gun (assuming I have the license). The company uses its rights to ban people as it pleases. The difference is that being utility you are not suppose to discriminate people. There are limits to everything but there is a difference between a cartel banning people they dislike and refusing service to people who do not pay or try to violate the law by using the service. But you know that of course. You just prefer to ban OMB because that is what this is about. Well censorship does not stop being censorship only because there is an oligarchy doing the censoring instead of the state doing it. Applies the same to Biden and OMB just Biden has approval of powers that be. At least for now.

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