I'm not usually one to bandy about big, dramatic terms in political discussions because it alienates people, but sometimes you have to call something what it is. The current anti-trans laws passing on the right are outright genocidal.
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Forwarded from Ministry of good ideas
Good idea: digital libraries, where you can receive/lend books, movies, music, audiobooks, games, etc.
A spin on an old concept, adapted for the digital age, as well as a bullwark against capitalism... which it trying hard to suppress this idea:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-rules-internet-archives-digital-book-lending-violates-copyrights-2023-03-25/
A spin on an old concept, adapted for the digital age, as well as a bullwark against capitalism... which it trying hard to suppress this idea:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-rules-internet-archives-digital-book-lending-violates-copyrights-2023-03-25/
Reuters
Internet Archive's digital book lending violates copyrights, US judge rules
A U.S. judge has ruled that an online library operated by the nonprofit organization Internet Archive infringed the copyrights of four major U.S. publishers by lending out digitally scanned copies of their books.
Forwarded from United Anarchists
this is the ruling https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.188.0.pdf
CourtListener
Memorandum & Opinion – #188 in Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive (S.D.N.Y., 1:20-cv-04160) – CourtListener.com
OPINION & ORDER re: 97 MOTION for Summary Judgment . filed by Internet Archive, 87 MOTION for Summary Judgment against Internet Archive with respect to the causes of action set forth in the Complaint. filed by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Penguin Random House…
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Joey Santore (@JoeySantore)
Rescuing hundreds of rare cacti for replanting that grow no place else in the US except South Texas as the state-funded border wall destroys thousands of acres of habitat for a fence that will do nothing to stop true criminals or cartels.
Look, I'm gonna be real with you all real quick. Revolutionary leftism (at least, of the kind where the government is overthrown and dismantled) isn't practical right now. The hard reality is that, at the present moment, the far right is both better armed, better trained and, more likely than not, more numerous than the revolutionary left. I'm not saying the left shouldn't be armed. I'm not saying there's no place for things like secessionist movements, autonomous zones, etc. in left wing discourse, but the truth is, in most parts of America there would be an immediate and devastating counter-revolution if any leftist uprising was successful, and that's a reality that needs to be reckoned with.
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