Walled Culture the book, three years on

Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was launched just over three years ago. A few weeks afterwards, I talked with journalist and editor Maria Bustillos about the book and its background, as part of the Internet Archive’s Book Talk series. That interview has just been added to the Future Knowledge Podcast series in a shortened form, so this seems like a good moment to […]

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https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-three-years-on/

Speaking of unprincipled media laws that produce totally predictable unintended consequences ...

Duncan and guest Tim Burrowes (ABC MediaLand) also discuss the fate of the Oz government's attempts to impose a link tax on DataFarmers. Which went wrong in all the ways tech activists warned about, and more;

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-12-2025/the-fold-australias-big-tech-revolution-rolls-on

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#TechRegulation #LinkTax #DigitalAdTax #TimBurrowes

The Fold: Australia’s big tech revolution rolls on

An update on the profound change taking place in Australian media’s regulatory landscape.

The Spinoff

Schon das #Uploadfilter und #Leistungsschutzrecht #Linktax Debakel hat dem eh schwachen europäischen Digitalstandort schweren Schaden zugefügt... die #Chatkontrolle würde ihm wahrscheinlich den Rest geben.

#ChatkontrolleStoppen

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-ueberwachungsplaene-in-der-kritik-wirtschaftsverbaende-bitkom-und-eco-klar-gegen-chatkontrolle/

EU-Überwachungspläne in der Kritik: Wirtschaftsverbände Bitkom und eco klar gegen Chatkontrolle

Die Stimmen gegen die Chatkontrolle werden mehr und lauter. Nun hagelt es deutliche Kritik aus der Wirtschaft. Zudem warnen der Deutsche Journalistenverband und der Anwaltverein vor einer Überwachungsinfrastruktur, die schnell ausgebaut werden könnte.

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@titaniumbiscuit @SchreibeEinfach

#Uploadfilter wurden eingeführt mit vielen der negativen Effekte von denen die Leute mit Ahnung vorab intensiv gewarnt hatten.

Übrigens hat #YouTube - wohl wissend das die neuen Haftungsregeln jeglicher kleineren europäischen Konkurrenz schwer zu schaffen machen werden - kurz nach der Entscheidung die Zwangswerbung + Anreiz zum Abo massiv ausgebaut und damit seine Einnahmen nocheinmal deutlich gesteigert. Bei gleichzeitiger Verschlechterung der Nutzererfahrung.. aber die haben ja kaum noch eine Wahl, den nur die größten aller Plattformen können diese idiotischen Haftungsregeln ohne größere Probleme stemmen.

Das #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax hat auch - wie vorhergesagt - nicht wirklich funktioniert, da es von völlig falschen Voraussetzungen ausgeht.

Alles in allem war die Reform für Nutzer schlecht, für viele Urheber schlecht, für den Wirtschaftstandort schlecht aber sie war gut für ein paar große Verwertungsgesellschaften und Digitalkonzerne.

EPIC FAIL😒

Mark Carney Mulling Rescinding the Online News Act

The Online News Act has been widely considered a complete and total failure. It seems rescinding it is a possibility.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mark-carney-mulling-rescinding-the-online-news-act/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #LinkTax #MarkCarney #OnlineNewsAct #US

@pneutig

Wir alle wünschen uns mehr europäische Digitalunternehmen... aber zur Wahrheit gehört auch, dass unsere Politik seit Jahren alles falsch macht, was man falsch machen kann. Von #Uploadfiltern über #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax zur #Chatkontrolle und #Vorratsdatenspeicherung .

Nie geht es um die Interessen der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer... sondern immer um die Interessen anderer.

So wird das nix.

Eine Altersbeschränkung für das Internet ist weder sinnvoll noch mit Freiheitsrechten zu vereinbaren. Es obliegt den Erziehungsberechtigten dafür Sorge zu tragen.

Liberal MP Calls for Online News Act to Be Scrapped

I've long said the Online News Act needs to be scrapped. Now, I'm learning that at least one Liberal MP agrees with me now.

https://www.freezenet.ca/liberal-mp-calls-for-online-news-act-to-be-scrapped/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Kelowna #Liberal #LinkTax #MP #OnlineNewsAct #StephenFuhr

@wolf480pl @1br0wn @jmaris I totally share your frustration about having fight bad proposals like #ChatControl, #EUProtect, and #LinkTax over and over. I do this for a living. 🫣

But consider this: how do we know that those bad proposals are unpopular? People keep on voting for far-right, conservative, and economically liberal majorities both nationally and in EU elections. The result is people in power who support mass surveillance and other rights-crushing policies.

I don't think most...

Yes, let’s “Make it Fair” – by recognising that copyright has failed to reward creators properly

A few weeks ago, the UK’s regional and national daily news titles ran similar front covers, exhorting the government there to “Make it Fair”. The campaign Web site explained:

Tech companies use creative content, such as news articles, books, music, film, photography, visual art, and all kinds of creative work, to train their generative AI models.

Publishers and creators say that doing […]

#creators #dailies #euCopyrightDirective #generativeAi #journalists #linkTax #newspapers #optOut #publishers #ratchet #snippetTax #sustainability #tax #theft #training #uk

https://walledculture.org/yes-lets-make-it-fair-by-recognising-that-copyright-has-failed-to-reward-creators-properly/

Yes, let’s “Make it Fair” – by recognising that copyright has failed to reward creators properly

<p>A few weeks ago, the UK’s regional and national daily news titles ran similar front covers, exhorting the government there to “Make it Fair”. The campaign Web site explained: Tech companies use creative content, such as news articles, books, music, film, photography, visual art, and all kinds of creative work, to train their generative AI …</p>

@stroughtonsmith

PS: As a IT guy, you should also understand, that actually cutting off an internet service that has millions of users that WANT to access it, it going to be very difficult.

Even more so, as few credible european alternatives exist, a fact not helped by europe caring more about legacy media companies than user rights which would be one of its few selling points. (Just remember the #uploadfilter and #linktax debacle.)

Europe dont see users as people having rights... it sees users as something that should be milked without rights from european companies instead of US ones. 😒

The #EuropeanUnion and the goverments of the member states have done very little in the last 2 decades that benefits me as an internet user but have done lot of things that violate my interests in multiple ways.

So I trust them even less than just the - wise - distrust anyone should have about even a democratically elected goverment.