In the news today...

[LMAO]

Mac Miller passed away

To everyone who sell me drugs
Don't mix it with that bullshit
I'm hoping not to join the twenty-seven club

In a morbidly ironic way, he got his wish.

[Phil71]

I think this is out of order.

These guys are professional wrestlers. Let them earn a living.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-45485344

[Pudpop]

I think this is out of order.

These guys are professional wrestlers. Let them earn a living.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-45485344

The article reads as if no one bothered to ask the wrestlers what they actually want... surely that couldn't have been very difficult

[UFGN]

I think this is out of order.

These guys are professional wrestlers. Let them earn a living.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-45485344

The article reads as if no one bothered to ask the wrestlers what they actually want... surely that couldn't have been very difficult

A lot of those guys earn a good living out of entertainment

No harm in it

[Pudpop]

I think this is out of order.

These guys are professional wrestlers. Let them earn a living.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-45485344

The article reads as if no one bothered to ask the wrestlers what they actually want... surely that couldn't have been very difficult

A lot of those guys earn a good living out of entertainment

No harm in it

I know, which is why it's telling that none of the complaints in the article are from the wrestlers.

[Phil71]

I think this is out of order.

These guys are professional wrestlers. Let them earn a living.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-45485344

The article reads as if no one bothered to ask the wrestlers what they actually want... surely that couldn't have been very difficult

Being offended on other people's behalf.

It's becoming more common I think.

[UFGN]

I think this is out of order.

These guys are professional wrestlers. Let them earn a living.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-45485344

The article reads as if no one bothered to ask the wrestlers what they actually want... surely that couldn't have been very difficult

A lot of those guys earn a good living out of entertainment

No harm in it

I know, which is why it's telling that none of the complaints in the article are from the wrestlers.

Somebody had better tell millionaire Peter Drinkladge that hes being exploited cos he only gets cast as dwarfs

[Pudpop]

I think this is out of order.

These guys are professional wrestlers. Let them earn a living.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-45485344

The article reads as if no one bothered to ask the wrestlers what they actually want... surely that couldn't have been very difficult

A lot of those guys earn a good living out of entertainment

No harm in it

I know, which is why it's telling that none of the complaints in the article are from the wrestlers.

Somebody had better tell millionaire Peter Drinkladge that hes being exploited cos he only gets cast as dwarfs

Tbf he was cast as a giant dwarf in Infinity War

[Phil71]

Get Warwick Davies off Tenable I say.

He's obviously only on there to create some sort of freakshow gameshow.

[Dynamite]

RIP Internet in the EU

[LegendaryKeown]

Great law, it's a disgrace how Facebook/Twitter can get away with having content that is literally causing deaths and say they can't control it. Either hire more staff or stop your business

[UFGN]

Great law, it's a disgrace how Facebook/Twitter can get away with having content that is literally causing deaths and say they can't control it. Either hire more staff or stop your business

Difficult to disagree

Imagine if Cadbury or some other sweet company said that one in a million of their bars of chocolate contain lethal levels of arsnic but they cant be expected to do anything about it

They'd be closed down in a shot

[Dynamite]

What are you guys talking about?

It's a pure lobby law.
For example

By requiring Internet platforms to
perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an
unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for
sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users.

In particular, far from only affecting large American Internet platforms (who can well
afford the costs of compliance), the burden of Article 13 will fall most heavily on their
competitors, including European startups and SMEs. The cost of putting in place the
necessary automatic filtering technologies will be expensive and burdensome, and yet those
technologies have still not developed to a point where their reliability can be guaranteed.
Indeed, if Article 13 had been in place when Internet’s core protocols and applications were
developed, it is unlikely that it would exist today as we know it.

The impact of Article 13 would also fall heavily on ordinary users of Internet platforms—
not only those who upload music or video (frequently in reliance upon copyright
limitations and exceptions, that Article 13 ignores), but even those who contribute photos,
text, or computer code to open collaboration platforms such as Wikipedia and GitHub.

Copy & Pasted from https://www.eff.org/files/2018/06/13/article13letter.pdf

[LegendaryKeown]

What are you guys talking about?

It's a pure lobby law.
For example

By requiring Internet platforms to
perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an
unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for
sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users.

In particular, far from only affecting large American Internet platforms (who can well
afford the costs of compliance), the burden of Article 13 will fall most heavily on their
competitors, including European startups and SMEs. The cost of putting in place the
necessary automatic filtering technologies will be expensive and burdensome, and yet those
technologies have still not developed to a point where their reliability can be guaranteed.
Indeed, if Article 13 had been in place when Internet’s core protocols and applications were
developed, it is unlikely that it would exist today as we know it.

The impact of Article 13 would also fall heavily on ordinary users of Internet platforms—
not only those who upload music or video (frequently in reliance upon copyright
limitations and exceptions, that Article 13 ignores), but even those who contribute photos,
text, or computer code to open collaboration platforms such as Wikipedia and GitHub.

Copy & Pasted from https://www.eff.org/files/2018/06/13/article13letter.pdf

Well, if you're going to make a platform to upload music, books, etc, it's your responsibility to ensure that it's not infringing copyright anyway.

[UFGN]

What are you guys talking about?

It's a pure lobby law.
For example

By requiring Internet platforms to
perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an
unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for
sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users.

In particular, far from only affecting large American Internet platforms (who can well
afford the costs of compliance), the burden of Article 13 will fall most heavily on their
competitors, including European startups and SMEs. The cost of putting in place the
necessary automatic filtering technologies will be expensive and burdensome, and yet those
technologies have still not developed to a point where their reliability can be guaranteed.
Indeed, if Article 13 had been in place when Internet’s core protocols and applications were
developed, it is unlikely that it would exist today as we know it.

The impact of Article 13 would also fall heavily on ordinary users of Internet platforms—
not only those who upload music or video (frequently in reliance upon copyright
limitations and exceptions, that Article 13 ignores), but even those who contribute photos,
text, or computer code to open collaboration platforms such as Wikipedia and GitHub.

Copy & Pasted from https://www.eff.org/files/2018/06/13/article13letter.pdf

I'll have to look at it further

To be honest I used to care more deeply about this sort of stuff but since the snoopers charter was waved through with barely a whimper I find it hard to really give a shit anymore

But brexit tho