more great work by David Newhoff exposing yet another #cyberlibertarian gish gallop (sadly, this one at a generally good site, The Scholarly Kitchen) deliberately & badly misreading the law, the judge's decision, & the underlying ideas in #InternetArchive vs Hachette https://illusionofmore.com/internet-archive-defender-alleges-the-second-circuit-doesnt-know-the-law/ #copyright #fairuse

surprisingly nuanced and balanced coverage of the (very good & accurate) judgment in the #InternetArchive "National Emergency Library" case, with both authors and librarians quoted who see through IA's long-term #cyberlibertarian shell game to deprive creators of rights to what we create.

CEO of Author's Guild: "We totally appreciate the fact that some authors don’t care about making money from their books. But it’s got to be the author’s choice.” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/03/27/legal-blow-internet-archive-controlled-digital-lending #copyright #Google

"It’s so easy to get seduced by these technologies. They feel like magic. You put in a prompt; the oracle replies. There’s a natural impulse to ooh and aah. But at the rate things are going now, we may be oohing and aahing our way to a future no one wants."

very good debunking of typical #cyberlibertarian dogma, here with regard to #AI #GenerativeAI #GPT #GPT4 #GPT3 #regulation #democracy by @sigalsamuel

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23621198/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-openai-existential-risk-china-ai-safety-technology

#copyright is one of the main leading edges that makes up the core of #cyberlibertarian dogma. it is an effort to strip creators of their intellectual property rights, and replace them with a doctrine of raw power: whoever has the power to take something from someone else should be able to do it.

it needs to portray copyright owners as "giants" & those who benefit from stealing creator materials--Google, Facebook, etc--as "little guys."

cui bono?

#InternetArchive

1/ if #InternetArchive has managed to convince you that their effort to strip authors of #copyright is a "battle for libraries," I suggest reading and thinking more.

it is shocking (not shocking) to see how easily this #cyberlibertarian #disinformation spreads.

Internet Archive is attacking one of the bases on which actual libraries operate.

& to be clear, this suit has NOTHING to do with the Wayback Machine.

it has to do with IA illegally distributing published, copyrighted books.

pioneering civil rights attorney Carrie Goldberg (@cagoldberglaw@twitter) files suit in dystopian antidemocratic hellscape Great Britain, where the lack of #Section230 protections means platforms might be sued for enabling sex trafficking of minors.

#Omegle, Golderberg's team says, "was able to become a 'hunting ground for predators' because of the random matching system & the lack of warnings or age verification."

Omegle founder offers typical #cyberlibertarian denials.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791

what a perfect example of #cyberlibertarian nihilism, ad hominem, & contempt for other human beings masquerading as belief in "progress" @hypervisible

if only people like @lmsacasas & others had noted this before (see #2, written 2014) https://thefrailestthing.com/2014/03/30/10-points-of-unsolicited-advice-for-technology-writers/

a startling illustration of the intellectual bankruptcy of #cyberlibertarian solutions to our profound political problems: Frances #Haugen says the way to fix #ElonMusk's #fascism at #Twitter is #opensource https://www.businessinsider.com/frances-haugen-elon-musk-should-open-source-twitter-algorithm-2023-1

one of the most pernicious #cyberlibertarian lies is that #socialmedia gives a "voice to the voiceless."

social media "gives" a "voice" to everyone. for every example of voicing-the-voiceless, there are 10 examples of voicing the already-very-voiced.