So if Uzbekistan decides to ban any content including camels wearing pink ribbons the rest of the planet needs to geoblock that content to accommodate their dumb bullshit?
Then its up to that country to enforce its own dumb rules on its own citizens. Some clown country with a dumb law doesn’t mean that every other person on earth has to lose privacy.
Those ‘licensing issues’ are a small part of the reason streaming, cable TV, and absolutely anything with any sort of intellectual property rights have become guarded by an iron curtain of shitfuck.
Licensing at this point has become a pretense to declare war in court. Sidenote that copyright laws in general are severly outdated as well. I mean the DMCA itself was written in 1998 and hasn’t been updated in any meaningful way since then.
To be fair: there may be licensing issues or geo blocked content which they are forbidden from serving you and must make a reasonable effort.
Maybe they should say so then instead of pretending they’re concerned they might not be able to serve “the best content”.
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Maybe content shouldn’t be geo blocked.
What’s legal in one country isn’t legal in another.
Depictions of smoking for example.
But, free and open access is a core principle of the internet.
Principle*
Thank you, corrected :)
This is a specific problem with stuff from network television. Won’t stop their algorithm from pushing it to you though.
Sports clips especially have a lot of restrictions.
People still need to follow their local laws.
Those people are the people in those countries, not everyone else.
Yes and that’s why content is geoblocked where applicable.
So if Uzbekistan decides to ban any content including camels wearing pink ribbons the rest of the planet needs to geoblock that content to accommodate their dumb bullshit?
Wha? It would be geoblocked in Uzbekistan, not anywhere else.
Theb we must ban the Internet. Depictions of rape and torture should stay banned.
Licensing stuff properly is frustrating though. And not always practical.
There are (very low) limits to what’s sensible, but some censorship can be good.
And? What does that change.
You understand that you already pay for it, yeah? So parties have their own obligations and protections.
It’s free to “access” but servers and everything in between cost money and have to follow local laws.
You just saying that, shows you have no concept of how the internet works. It’s not even free lmfao.
lmfao yea I totally remember paying to access geocities back in the day. …
Then its up to that country to enforce its own dumb rules on its own citizens. Some clown country with a dumb law doesn’t mean that every other person on earth has to lose privacy.
Ah yes, but to be fair:
Who is that fair to exactly?
Those ‘licensing issues’ are a small part of the reason streaming, cable TV, and absolutely anything with any sort of intellectual property rights have become guarded by an iron curtain of shitfuck.
Licensing at this point has become a pretense to declare war in court. Sidenote that copyright laws in general are severly outdated as well. I mean the DMCA itself was written in 1998 and hasn’t been updated in any meaningful way since then.