AmericanEconomicThinkTank

That’s actually quite the improvement. I remember back when I had the lovely choice between an actual hourly train that would take you within a literal days walk of your destination with the entire route having the constant risk of you being run over, the local bus route which requried switching three busses even to leave town, with another 5 or 6 easily to reach close walking distance to where you’d be going the next town over, or the good old fashioned route of just driving there which took a good hour and a half if you were going anywhere important and had the added bonus of constant risk of being run off the road from our local drivers.

To be fair these days it’s a lot better, the bus route only takes three swaps at worst, and the bus drivers only ocasionally start driving like they are formula 1 racers on their way to take a pit stop in the middle of goddamn nowhere.

I had an Aunt, reserved woman, but honest. She was the first woman born in the entire family to be born with the right to vote. She managed to chisel herself a career in civil service for her entire adult life, never married, through all the rather distasteful attitudes she’d deal with on a daily basis.

Even she kept a copy of the constitution in her purse, a document that forbade her own mother from being able to vote well into adulthood.

Way I see it, our nation as such beautifully unceasing promise behind it, and they’re damn afraid of that fact.

And they say taking up D&D as a hobby is weird lmao

Nothing like 40 years of political maneuvering and policy influence throughout a system of government to unravel.

Small consolation, while many work to also influence local offices and political bodies to properly prop up their power, it’s also some of the easiest areas to get your foot in the door and make change yourself.

Hell, even under the Putin regime, opposition thrives in areas like schoolboards and townhalls, they tend not to be the ones thrown out windows. Just high enough to make a difference, too small to be noticed.

Lol unless the industrial complex keeps growing surveillance and monitoring without hard laws put in place, in which case oh well.

Haha helps not viewing it dead tired. Totally see where you were coming from there. It is an interesting point to make, especially given most view the need for IP protection for an individual or firm to extend only within reach of that party. Some are often enforced where common overlap occurs, like I could build surfboards under the name Tide and the soap people can’t do jack.

Yet, books long out of circulation and print are still given full protection. If copyright technically allows home movie showing to extend to streaming, why isn’t allowing home vcr recordings of tv movie broadcasts extended to downloading online streams given the actual method of data transfer is indistinguishablen from just watching it.

Shame that general priorities in law and policy are uh, what they are, I honestly would’ve loved seeing this stuff explored in the courts more, over just giving priority interest to corporations lol.

Interesting idea, but in most domestic and international contexts, digital assets and capital are considered under the law as protected one way or another. Generally most countries don’t want to have to rewrite entire legal systems for the new age, and have used existing laws and presidents to apply to digital counterpoints.

Hence, businesses can get protections for intellectual property, licenses grant usage rights and protections, and also lets someone theoretically be prosecuted for piracy like theft, hacking like breaking and entering, harassment the same online and in person, or illicit goods and services all the same.

Far from perfect with all kinds of caveats, and desperately needing work globally, but to me, better than just letting things go free while laws are passed and rights granted or denied.