• @[email protected]
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    271 month ago

    The laws around copyright are designed to prevent citizens from doing things.

    The laws around human rights are designed to preventing the government from doing things.

    The later expands your agency while the former restricts it.

    • mosiacmango
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      31 month ago

      Yall left a big ol’ giant hole in your simplification about these itty bitty things that have an equally outsized impact on all of our lives :

      Corporations.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        Copyright predates corporations. Many corporations need copyright to extract profit. If you’re anti-corporation but pro-copyright, you’re the only with the big ol’ giant hole.