[HN Gopher] Disney Copyrights Targeted in Bill Proposed by Sen. ...
___________________________________________________________________
Disney Copyrights Targeted in Bill Proposed by Sen. Josh Hawley
Author : MBCook
Score : 14 points
Date : 2022-05-10 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
| Finnucane wrote:
| I guess we know where their priorities lie. I mean, for years,
| republicans have championed corporate-friendly agendas like
| privatization of public resources and copyright maximalism, and
| now they are willing to undo it in order to stick it to LGBT&
| folks.
| smoldesu wrote:
| I don't know why _this_ has to be polarized, of all things.
| There 's nothing crazy about people coming to an agreement on
| copyright limitations. Hell, even if this was a contrived
| revenge plot, I don't think it detracts from it's legitimacy.
| IP legislation is insane and everyone knows it, Disney won't
| catch any empathy from me for virtue-signalling to distract
| from systematic exploitation.
| gamblor956 wrote:
| If this bill becomes law, it means that Congress now has the
| power to target specific individuals and companies with
| legislative acts.
|
| That is quite literally facism.
| MBCook wrote:
| Normally you'd be right.
|
| But in this case it only seems to be in progress because one
| party got mad at Disney and is now just looking for ways to
| hurt Disney's interests in revenge.
|
| If a the school bully beats up a kid who torments you for a
| terribly unfair reason... should you root for them?
| xkcd-sucks wrote:
| "A thief robs a thief, and God smiles" or whatever it is
|
| It would be _pearl-clutchingly terrible_ if 50+1% of the
| country /state thought a cabal of (gays, nazis, woke
| commies, abortionists, pedophiles, etc.) were in the NSA
| using surveillance tech + weak encryption to accomplish
| their goals
| PoignardAzur wrote:
| _> "Thanks to special copyright protections from Congress, woke
| corporations like Disney have earned billions while increasingly
| pandering to woke activists."_
|
| You know, "woke" has really become the new "commie". It doesn't
| refer to an ideology anymore, it's just a buzzword that has to be
| placed in as many sentences as possible to remind your base of
| all the awful people out there who want to destroy everything
| that is good and holy.
|
| (That aside, I don't have much sympathy for Disney. They had no
| business commenting on that Florida law, no matter how much shit
| their progressive fans and creators gave them.)
| kadoban wrote:
| > They had no business commenting on that Florida law, no
| matter how much shit their progressive fans and creators gave
| them.
|
| The Republican party has spent the past couple of decades
| arguing that corporations have free speech, and expanding what
| "speech" means in that case. Does that only apply when they say
| Republican things?
| car_analogy wrote:
| It's unrealistically optimistic to expect the government to do
| the right thing for the right reasons, so I'm more than willing
| to settle for doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
| joshjob42 wrote:
| https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-kno...
| Me right now. Copyrights should be much shorter but also it's
| Hawley so :shrug:
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2022-05-10 23:02 UTC)