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Sure, no objections there

So, to condense the article:

Opinion:

Lol

A record of records

Oh no. I guess the only reasonable response is to bomb another children’s hospital.

The Guardian has dropped the ball a bunch of times.

A non-name media org is less likely to be a target for rich fucks who want to pay to push their agenda through a big, recognizable, reputable source.

The bigger the organisation, the greater the chances it will be corrupted, in ways big and small, by rich fucks.

I see. Well, if I take what you’re saying as fully correct, then it sounds like communism compared to anarchism, is just “a different path for how we reach the same utopia”.

And this different path passes through more authority (quantity and quality), through the existence and emphasis of the state.

How much authority, is probably what makes the spectrum of Anarchy to Stalin-Lenin.

And well… As an anarchist, deafboy’s comment might be polemic, but I get it. Any authority that can, will get corrupted.

What makes this thing you’re describing, not anarchism?

I think you’re thinking of anarchocommunism specifically. Which is “not all communism”™.

State-based communism is a thing, that many people usually called tankies by others, do believe in.

Even to the (insufficient, overblown) extent that it happens, lifting “the poor” Han Chinese out of poverty by putting other populations (Uighurs) under slave labour instead, is not the moral win you’re implying.

If an ethnic cleansing is part of the requirements, to stop committing humanitarian atrocities towards “the poor”, that’s still an atrocity.

Disclaimer, the USA, just like every authoritarian state, is also disgusting and criminal.

I’m getting the sense that you didn’t actually watch the whole video, because your only two points in this comment,

In the absence of IP laws, creatives would be able to create their works, but they’d also be competing against companies that have the resources to monetize, influence the general public, and kill the franchise through poor choices.

And

It’s really important to know that the vast majority of people aren’t going to have the goodwill to tip or otherwise support free works, and it’s even less likely if a large company does enough marketing to overshadow an artist.

, are answered during the video, and I don’t see you arguing the points made by him, you’re just straight up stating the opposite.

And your first point,

Right now, a majority of creatives don’t own their IP in the legal sense, and they can’t stop large companies from milking their works dry as a result.

, is about how the current system doesn’t work to protect actual artists, yet does work to protect large IP-pimping companies.

“Reasonable control” is only possible in the legal sense, not the real sense, so I doubt artists care about it, outside of monetisation, which is what we’re attempting to replace.

Right now as we are speaking, the art of thousands upon thousands of those creators is being stolen constantly by legally gray AI scraping by huge companies, or illegally by smaller merch leeches.

The internet makes data protection impossible.

The law, only prevents the most egregious kinds of ‘monetisation with someone else’s art’, and is unable to stop the rest, for practical reasons.

If artists didn’t have to worry about being compensated enough… Would they still want to have “reasonable control”? Would we still “risk” them being “demotivated”, from being unable to forbid others specifically from making money with their ideas?

I think the human drive to create isn’t that neurotic. I think this kind of “demotivation” only happens for the kind of human who has been abused for years by the rules of the absurd economy we live in. And that’s what we’re saying should change.

Hey hey now. Don’t hate the companies themselves. They’re playing the legal game in the exact, only way the rules allow it to be played. If they don’t, the law and the shareholders fuck them up instead.

Edit: I guess tone is hard to convey through text, so let me be clear:

Companies bad.

But also:

Just hate the copyright law itself, directly. Its only reason for existence is so rich fucks get richer, safer, and should be just abolished.

(45 minute video by Uniquenameosaurus, who also has done an incredible series of videos on the practical ethics of media piracy, with a focus on anime as a jumping off point).

Tl;dr:

France tries to pass an extremely unpopular reform on its colonized island on the other side of the world, allowing french citizens to vote after 10 years of staying on the island, that just so happens to be the world’s 3rd largest nickel exporter.

Locals, already fucked by years of colonialism and being economically disadvantaged, protested, and in the escalating violence, were suppressed by armed police, that killed 3 young locals. One policeman dies, days later in the hospital from a wound.

France locks down the airport and port with military, applies 12 days lockdown to the already curfew’d capital, and stations another 500 police men on top of the 1800, making for almost 10% of the population now, being french police.

Tiktok is banned, because it was said to be the main way protesters organised.

Their politicians claim no colonialism is happening.

This article sensationalises the violence of the protesters, and dryily describes that of the French state.

It is also ordered such that the heavier crimes against the people of the island, are placed after: a vapid introduction that “takes no sides”, one mandatory extra click to “load the rest of the article”, and a bunch of ads.

“Our inherently good government with unfortunate rich fascist fucks in it, vs their inherently nasty foreign government”

I’m happy for you, but that just isn’t the average user experience. The crushing majority of people aren’t tech-savvy enough for that. And Reddit, relies on that majority.

For better or worse for everyone involved, it’s their experience that makes or breaks the site, and it’s them that enshittification takes advantage of.

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(I’m assuming you mean “shut up about China”, tell me if I’m wrong)

Yeah, as you correctly say, it’s a global (mostly first world) phenomenon, which, in the unique (but not special) case of China, gets its unique (but not special) flavor, worth exploring.

I’m not from China, but chunks of these stories resonate with mine and my acquaintances experience, in our own country, and others are very different.

Should all that not be reported?

Not a connoisseur, so take what I say with a grain of salt but… Isn’t the appeal of it, the significant personal interaction? You can’t get that by ripping a couple vods. The ability to live chat (and throw paid messages their way), and have them respond, seems irreplaceable.

Mine can get surprisingly close 👀 The Balkans are surely, one of the places of the world.

Oooh, had it via direct download, I’ve wanted to seed it for that exact reason. Mind pming me a magnet so I can assist?

Honestly, because troubleshooting gets annoying for me when I want to play a game, I have made a brain-dead algorithm for how to play games on the deck, and it looks like this:

1. Do I want to buy it on Steam? If not,

2. Does it run in Windows? If yes, just download and install in Windows PC, and then (Warpinator) it into the deck. Add shortcut to steam, use latest stable proton. That’s it. You’re done.

3. W-wait… It doesn’t run natively on Windows? (Old af games like Touhou 6). Just Bottles it, and finagle with the setup a bit, that’s gonna take some effort.

As a general rule, proton is a beast, and I have stopped bothering with Linux native piracy entirely.

No.