• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I don’t get the problem. It’s just syncing public information back and forth. I mean, the information is fully public for anyone to access. If you mind who accesses it, you shouldn’t make it public.

    • Blaze@reddthat.comOP
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      9 months ago

      In ActivityPub, you have the freedom to defederate.

      This bridge doesn’t allow you to do so, I can understand why people have issues with it.

    • Breve@pawb.social
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      9 months ago

      Does that mean every TV show broadcast over the air, every song on the radio, and every book in a public library is now “free” to pirate on the Internet because they were made publicly available? There’s a reason that social media companies include clauses in their EULA that posting content gives them (and only them unless otherwise noted) the right to reproduce that content.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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        9 months ago

        It does indeed outside of the united IP holders of america.

        In the free world, you can record any tv or radio program that is freely available for your personal consumption.

        Welcome to the actual land of the free.

        Edit: answering another comment of yours. You can absolutely repost the twitter, reddit and whatnot post of anyone. It is paywalled stuff that you are not allowed to share.

          • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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            9 months ago

            Thanks for elaborating. The obvious flaw in this logic is that even the most original thing brings both the platform and the writer the visibility. Assuming you‘re knowledgeable and technically correct, this would always be unenforceable because it is the whole purpose of the platform to retweet, cite and repost.

            I‘m not too knowledgeable in IP law or the local US court proceedings but where I live, your EULA/TOS become null and void if you put the customer at a disadvantage. Having this damocles sword dangling above their heads would most likely not hold in court (retweet = visibility but technically against TOS)