***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[IATT]

 

[Belgium]

These people are goddamn idiots.


European parliament approved a new internet copyright law, though it still needs a final vote in January.
Interpretation of the legislation would be left up to the individual EU states.

The law includes a so-called 'link tax', which would force companies like Google to pay a tax on linking to content from artists, news publishers, ... (Article 11 in the legislation)
Note that Spain has tried something similar before, which simply resulted in Google responding by refusing to offer its services to Spain.

The 'Copyright Directive' also mandates that companies must proactively work with rightsholders to stop the uploading of copyrighted content. (Article 13 in the legislation)
On what planet is that a realistic demand? How is a company like Youtube supposed to stop anyone from uploading copyrighted content? Let alone all the smaller companies.
The new version of the law now excludes "small and micro platforms" but who is deciding what constitutes a small or micro platform?
With interpretation of the law up to each member state individually there could be various different interpetrations on certain aspects of the law that companies would have to take into account.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/...dopts-its-position-on-digital-copyright-rules
Parliament adopts its position on digital copyright rules

Parliament adopted its revised negotiating position on copyright rules on Wednesday, adding safeguards to protect small firms and freedom of expression.

Parliament’s position for talks with member states to hammer out a final deal was approved by 438 votes to 226, with 39 abstentions. It makes some important tweaks to the June committee proposal.

Tech giants to share revenue with artists and journalists

Many of Parliament’s changes to the EU Commission’s original proposal aim to make certain that artists, notably musicians, performers and script authors, as well as news publishers and journalists, are paid for their work when it is used by sharing platforms such as YouTube or Facebook, and news aggregators such as Google News.

After the vote, rapporteur Axel Voss (EPP, DE) said, “I am very glad that despite the very strong lobbying campaign by the internet giants, there is now a majority in the full house backing the need to protect the principle of fair pay for European creatives.

There has been much heated debate around this directive and I believe that Parliament has listened carefully to the concerns raised. Thus, we have addressed concerns raised about innovation by excluding small and micro platforms or aggregators from the scope.

I am convinced that once the dust has settled, the internet will be as free as it is today, creators and journalists will be earning a fairer share of the revenues generated by their works, and we will be wondering what all the fuss was about.”

Fair pay for artists and journalists while encouraging start-ups

Parliament’s position toughens the Commission’s proposed plans to make online platforms and aggregators liable for copyright infringements. This would also apply to snippets, where only a small part of a news publisher’s text is displayed. In practice, this liability requires these parties to pay right holders for copyrighted material that they make available. Parliament’s text also specifically requires that journalists themselves, and not just their publishing houses, benefit from remuneration stemming from this liability requirement.

At the same time, in an attempt to encourage start-ups and innovation, the text now exempts small and micro platforms from the directive.

Protecting freedom of expression

The text includes provisions to ensure that copyright law is observed online without unfairly hampering the freedom of expression that has come to define the internet.

Thus, merely sharing hyperlinks to articles, together with “individual words” to describe them, will be free of copyright constraints.

Any action taken by platforms to check that uploads do not breach copyright rules must be designed in such a way as to avoid catching “non-infringing works”. These platforms will moreover be required to establish rapid redress systems (operated by the platform’s staff, not algorithms) through which complaints can be lodged when an upload is wrongly taken down.

Wikipedia and open source software platforms will not be affected

The text also specifies that uploading to online encyclopaedias in a non-commercial way, such as Wikipedia, or open source software platforms, such as GitHub, will automatically be excluded from the requirement to comply with copyright rules.

Stronger negotiating rights for authors and performers

Parliament’s text also strengthens the negotiating rights of authors and performers, by enabling them to “claim” additional remuneration from the party exploiting their rights when the remuneration originally agreed is “disproportionately” low compared to the benefits derived.

The text adds that these benefits should include “indirect revenues”. It would also empower authors and performers to revoke or terminate the exclusivity of an exploitation licence for their work if the party holding the exploitation rights is deemed not to be exercising this right.

A press conference is scheduled after the vote, to be followed on EP Live at 14:30. You can follow it here

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[Deleted member 42060]

lol saw that pic on twitter

 

[d nice]

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b985a87e4b0162f4731da0e?

6 Years Ago, North Carolina Chose To Ignore Rising Sea Levels. This Week It Braces For Disaster.

In 2012, North Carolina legislators passed a bill that barred policymakers and developers from using up-to-date climate science to plan for rising sea levels on the state’s coast. Now Hurricane Florence threatens to cause a devastating storm surge that could put thousands of lives in danger and cost the state billions of dollars worth of damage

This is the type of nonsense you can get away with when your made accountable to donors and corporate interests and not to the people and the environments that these policies harm the most.

 

[gry60]

This is the type of nonsense you can get away with when your made accountable to donors and corporate interests and not to the people and the environments that these policies harm the most.

 

[plansb]

 

[RustyShackleford]

 

[chao7]

The GOP is so desperate to denigrate this dude, just advertising their panic.

"He will bring silicon and dyed hair to Texas"

"He was IN A BAND"

 

[AEA18]

 

[whywesteppin]

I couldn't help but notice how big his hands are.

Quite a refreshing change from the typical DC politician.

 

[chao7]

 

[gry60]

Who's in for some music?



Emin, the singer, is the son of billionaire Agalarov, who is close to Putin. Emin helped set up the Trump tower meeting.

It has been revealed today that large transactions of cash from Agalarov's accounts to some US accounts that had been dormant since 2015 took place after the infamous meeting and after the 2016 election night. Transactions were flagged by bankers but they couldn't figure out how the money was spent.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ower-meeting-suspicious-transactions-agalarov

Now Putin got this dude throwing subliminals.

 

[IATT]

 

[whywesteppin]

Who's in for some music?



Emin, the singer, is the son of billionaire Agalarov, who is close to Putin. Emin helped set up the Trump tower meeting.

It has been revealed today that large transactions of cash from Agalarov's accounts to some US accounts that had been dormant since 2015 took place after the infamous meeting and after the 2016 election night. Transactions were flagged by bankers but they couldn't figure out how the money was spent.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ower-meeting-suspicious-transactions-agalarov

Now Putin got this dude throwing subliminals.

That song is kind of catchy.

It's all coming together:

 

[IATT]

Could have given it to someone less fortunate...

 

[IATT]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/li...chool-students/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

 

[stuntman mike]

Could have given it to someone less fortunate...

cutting up something AFTER nike already made money from the sale. he should pray for brains.

 

[Based Jesus]

Just do it.

 

[gry60]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us/politics/us-mexico-deportation-funds.html

.S. Plans to Pay Mexico to Deport Unauthorized Immigrants There

 

[IATT]

 

[wavycrocket]

How low can he go....

 

[aepps20]

How low can he go....

When they go low, we go lower.

 

[putting in work]

How low can he go....

Yo... I'm sorry to say and admit to this, but he's not lying about this.

I don't know if to say it was done by Democrats, but yes, it is true what he's saying.

I don't know the exact count, not sure if it's 6-18 as he's saying, but they added on a lot of deaths not directly caused by the hurricane to the tally to heighten the numbers.

3000 people did not die from the hurricane Maria when it hit PR.

Is it possible that people died as a result of the after effects from the hurricane like no electricity, food, water, then yes that is possible. If that's what they're adding into the tally to bring the numbers up to 3000 then I can see where they're getting such a high number from.

 

[Mark Antony]

Yo... I'm sorry to say and admit to this, but he's not lying about this.

I don't know if to say it was done by Democrats, but yes, it is true what he's saying.

I don't know the exact count, not sure if it's 6-18 as he's saying, but they added on a lot of deaths not directly caused by the hurricane to the tally to heighten the numbers.

3000 people did not die from the hurricane Maria when it hit PR.

Is it possible that people died as a result of the after effects from the hurricane like no electricity, food, water, then yes that is possible. If that's what they're adding into the tally to bring the numbers up to 3000 then I can see where they're getting such a high number from.

Who are you? Don't be sorry, tell us more. I'm assuming you're someone on the inside with intimate knowledge to dispute these figures.



Ignoring that last sentence, that's just silly. No **** that should be tallied with hurricane losses.