A Lovely 10C Site!

@variablepulserate Plus I need to add in terms of the North American impact goes:

I guarantee you all that if this goes into law that the copyright cartel is going to try to either:

(1) Convince lawmakers to implement this in the US and Canada

or

(2) By implementing via the next revision of the trade treaty.

/@matigo @hazardwarning

@variablepulserate Also, this is all about taking control of the Internet to major corporations and ISPs who are now media content companies plus this will be a major tool to lock out so many people and give Big Tech even more power.

/@matigo @hazardwarning

Today is the beginning of the end of open podcasting.

Read these two pieces:

1 [recode.net]

2 [hotpodnews.com]

Let’s be real, this will jumpstart the walled gardens.

EU Copyright Directive update:

This doesn’t look good for the Internet’s future, sounds like Germany and France have decided to put two middle fingers on small companies, businesses and creators alike.

This also will affect Americans in most ways as well. Said this so many times but this is so dire. Read this piece for more [juliareda.eu]

Now that this is complete, here’s the full series on trying to gut the Big Tech corporations known as GAFAM [gizmodo.com]

Not a surprise on how difficult (if not impossible in some cases) to get rid of them.

If you're on AT&T's service in the US, get ready for your iPhones and Android phones to display the fake 5G logo [theverge.com]

Not surprising Apple endorsed this bullshit.

The importance of physical media and DRM-free ebooks are so important now a days…

@hazardwarning She does love attention, I can tell from her face.

@hazardwarning Aww, she's very adorable! Did she help some too?

Want to listen to the Net Neutrality court arguments? Go here! [cadc.uscourts.gov]

Here’s a primer [arstechnica.com]