Ecomodder's EU members

[freebeard]

Articles 11 and 13 have passed in the European Union. Unfortunately.

https://www.quora.com/How-would-the-...if-it-s-passed

Have Ecomodder considered the prospect of banning EU members to protect itself? Is that only for the big sites like Reddit?

In happier news, I was happy with email and that other thing you don't talk about before http came along.

https://uucp.dataforge.tk/~uucp/wiki...=Main.HomePage

[redpoint5]

Oh geez, you scared me for a minute as I didn't know what Articles 11 and 13 were. I was thinking the US was going to enforce EU pronoun laws or some other such nonsense and that I was going to have to stand my ground, not that I want to be intentionally harassing of others, but that freedom of speech is so important that I'll protect it even if I'm protecting the right of someone to say things I don't like.

As freebeard already knows, freedom of speech is freedom of thinking.

...and I've already derailed the thread in the first post.

Regarding IP rights, I'm generally in support of them. That said, it's a bit of a losing battle with how easily information is shared nowadays.

[freebeard]

The view from the inside of EU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RShTLkcKz4c

It appears that Internet freedom was horse-traded away for an oil pipeline.

In other news, I'm thinking about a speech pattern that eschews pronouns completely. (mine are thee and thou. ) Aren't they an optional shorthand?

EFF have been on the case for years:

EFF: The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News
(By Cory Doctorow October 28, 2018)

[redpoint5]

Well, I've always written papers saying they, or you instead of he and she. Proper English says that a sentence is to be written "He or she", which is very tedious, especially when used many times in a short duration. "They" might not be proper, but at least it isn't tedious and everyone knows what you're talking about. Doesn't common usage become the rule eventually?

When gender is not unknown, I prefer to use the identifying term since it provides more information to whatever is being described. We know how men generally behave, and we know how women generally behave. If a woman robbed a bank, stole a car, and went on a high speed chase, I'm more interested to know it was a woman than simply a person as that is unusual behavior for a woman.

Can you imagine a 911 call where the operators first question "is the person male or female". Well, they haven't announced the pronoun I should use yet, so I'll have to decline to answer. Heck, they haven't identified a species yet either, so I can't even tell you they are human.