Tech Bro Hypocrisy #451: Consent “If you make something...

Tech Bro Hypocrisy #451: Consent

“If you make something freely available on the web, we can take it and do whatever we like with it.”

– Oh, so I can just take your company’s logo and the copy from your site and use it? Download your app and redistribute it?…

“No, those are protected by trademarks, copyright, and licenses.”

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Like 13 Jan 2023 at 16:15 | Open on mastodon.ar.al

3 comments

supernovae

@aral It is a strange paradigm where individuals who create the content have no domain over it... unless they're a business.

I wonder how we can allow people to create and be discovered while preserving privacy/consent/permission and preserving the power within the federation rather than those that can assimilate and destroy it.

I saw some discussions of licensing and I cringed at such a notion, I don't want to EULA my life away either.

13 Jan 2023 at 16:24 | Open on universeodon.com

Refurio Anachro

Can't we poison their data collection. Like, add a copyright notice and then demand takedown. Or perhaps even let others do the demanding, we just need to somehow get them scrape the cr-mafia's stuff... Just thinking.

@aral

13 Jan 2023 at 16:46 | Open on toot.cat

Refurio Anachro

I keep thinking of Brazil (the movie), where Buttle short-circuits his tube-mail in his office and a few seconds later paperwork starts raining from the ceiling all over the building.

@aral

13 Jan 2023 at 16:49 | Open on toot.cat