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Today is a challenge - on and off for the next 12 hours, now that the GDPR dust is settling, I am going to try and Tweet about nothing but the #EUCopyrightDirective - BECAUSE, YE GODS, YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS:

techdirt.com/articles/20180…

HT @mmasnick CC @OpenRightsGroup
If you want a video about how YOU should demand that the EU #DeleteArt13 of the #EUCopyrightDirective, maybe start with this one:
If you would like an authoritative voice regards why we YOU need to act to get the EU to #DeleteArt13 - to avoid the Internet and Web being swamped with a "Link Tax", here is the perspective of German Euro-MP, Julia Reda: juliareda.eu/2018/05/censor…
«The German government is standing in the way of an agreement over which kinds of snippets of news content should fall under the “link tax” and thus become subject to a fee when shared» #DeleteArt13
«
They insist that whether a snippet constitutes an original intellectual creation by its author or not should not be a criteria.

To appease them, the Presidency is proposing that every country should just decide for themselves.
» #DeleteArt13
«
Sharing “insubstantial” parts of an article should remain free, but member states get to choose whether that means snippets that lack creativity, or snippets that have “no independent economic significance”, whatever length that may be – or both (Recital 34a).
» #DeleteArt13
«
Of course, this fundamentally contradicts the aim to create a Digital Single Market with common rules, which is right there in the title of the planned law. Instead of one Europe-wide law, we’d have 28, with the most extreme becoming the de-facto standard
» #DeleteArt13
«
To avoid being sued, international internet platforms would be motivated to comply with the strictest version implemented by any member state.

It also remains open whether simple links will be affected, because they almost always contain the title of the linked-to page.
»
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it’s not obvious that an article’s title counts as “insubstantial”. Get ready for drawn-out court cases and years of legal uncertainty around hyperlinks if this version of the text becomes the law.
» #DeleteArt13
Do you want a filtered internet? Because this is how you get a filtered internet: #DeleteArt13

juliareda.eu/2018/05/censor…
Let's go back to @mmasnick: «companies like #Github have already talked about how this could effectively destroy its ability to operate, and […] Any kind of forum site would be at serious risk. #Reddit, Pinterest, Twitch, Imgur, Wordpress, Medium, Vimeo» techdirt.com/articles/20180…
We've seen from #GDPR that sometimes, for a website facing burdensome regulation from the EU, the best strategy is just to shut off service* - so let's look at that list again:

@Github
@Reddit
@Pinterest
@Twitch
@Imgur
@Wordpress
@Medium
@Vimeo

They're kinda popular…
*<insert radicals screaming "but you can't be compliant that way!" — whatever, guys, I'm sure they'll cite your. opinion in the CEO's extradition notice…>
Hey! Coders! See this blogpost from @github about why they EU needs to #DeleteArt13 of the EU Copyright Directive.

Short version: THE EU COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE WILL FUCK-UP GITHUB AND INHIBIT OPEN SOURCE COLLABORATION

blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-…
CONTINUING THREAD: « Article 13 could "destroy the internet as we know it": What is it, why is it controversial and what will it mean for memes? »

alphr.com/politics/10094… #DeleteArt13
One of the most interesting (and encouraging) things is how opposition to Article13 cuts right across the political spectrum, demonstrating how it risks all forms of free communication and fair use on the Internet:

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Oct 5, 2018
Re: @timberners_lee's #Solid / @SolidMit

Hi @robertscammell!

More interesting that Facebook, I used to work on TheMine!Project*, a highly influential, much-plagiarised & ultimately unsuccessful stab at personal information stores, from 2006-2011.

*themineproject.org
If you want to know my opinion of how @timberners_lee's #Solid will impact "tech giants", watch this video (actually, x3) from 2010; the bulletpoints are:

- facebook killers, aren't
- there's plenty of room for alternatives
- first it must grow

The media loves zero-sum, david/goliath stories, and thereby often causes doom ("ello") & even tragically suicidal levels of stress ("diaspora*") to people who are foolish enough to pitch themselves/their platforms as the antithesis of "social media giantism; so do please beware.
Read 7 tweets
Sep 4, 2018
Australia: "The Assistance and Access Bill 2018" - the people of Australia have SIX DAYS in which to register their feelings on encryption back doors: homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consulta… #straya #endtoend
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to telecommunications, computer access warrants and search warrants, and for other purposes #otherPurposes
A technical capability notice may require the provider to do acts or things by way of giving help to ASIO or an interception agency in relation to…
Read 13 tweets
Aug 5, 2018
Hey! You remember that piece where I was randomly asked to respond in a 2…3 hour window, about "fixing" Facebook? Well, it's out, and I've found it!
And, of course, like every other Associated Press piece, it is broadly republished in many newspapers, under mostly-the-same-headlines:
You get the same copy at CTV in Canada:
Read 11 tweets
Jul 30, 2018
<pops open bonnet of car>
Mark: "There you go, there's the engine. 4 cylinder petrol engine"
@CommonsCMS: "Where are the horses?"
Mark: "Horses?"
CMS: "We heard it's a 100 Horsepower engine."
Mark: "That's just a metaphor…?"
.@CommonsCMS: "No, we know there are horses. That engine is a black box. You're not being transparent about where the horses are."
Mark: "But that's not how cars really work…"
CMS: "Everyone knows that cars are driven by horsepower. We want to see the horses." #algorithms
Author's Note: this may sound like whimsy, but it's only a few years since I had the following conversation with a member of a London-based "civil society" campaigning organisation:
Read 9 tweets
Jul 27, 2018
HEREWITH: a _different_ argument about why it's easier to put a man on the moon than to have backdoorable cryptography at scale. This fine article got posted by Techdirt a couple days ago…
And it has received reasonable praise, commentary, and dad-jokes from the usual crypto suspects:
And it quotes the highly respectable @mattblaze who as-ever properly demolishes the argument on its own terms of groundless aspiration:
Read 15 tweets
Jul 9, 2018
While we're on the topic of scale: every so often I have the misfortune of having to listen to some politician or former civil servant* demanding that people "NEED TO LEARN THE VALUE OF THEIR PERSONAL DATA, GODDAMNIT!".

*eg: ex-GCHQ
This one can be quite quick:
- Facebook
- About 2 Billion users
- Annual revenue 2017: $40.653 Billion

prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
Here's simple division as a rough guide: your data is worth about $20

About $20 per annum per user.

Let's implausibly assume that you're a heavy user, and are worth double that, so that you're actually worth $40; that means your value to Facebook would be (40/12) = $3.33/month.
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