La apariencia del diario el Espectador de Colombia es la del decoro y la elegancia, pero lo que transmiten sus letras es desidia y fascismo. Los medios liberales no soportan al pueblo. Ojalá los directores del Espectador se fueran a ver el Titanic.
Eu fico entre “carai, não é possível que eles não viram o tanto que a gente se f0deu” e “bom, deixa eles né gente? O que podemos fazer pra ajudar é viajar bastante pra lá pq vai estar cada vez mais barato 😇😇😇”
El #transporte público debió siempre ser gratis, mejor, pago por el perezoso #capitalista que quiere su #trabajo a tiempo, pago por el capitalista para compensar la huella de cárbono que genera el movimiento con acordeones contaminantes. Los capitalistas tienen toda la culpa de que nuestras #ciudades sean grises y estén llenas de hollin.
"...at the least suggestion that you may be about to being a counter-argument in my defense, the anger or the frustration of the assailant will be driven deeper. You will do no good to the detractor by mistakenly beginning a logical defense. You will drive the hatred or the fear or the prejudice deeper. You will do no good to yourself, for you will only expose your own feelings - I take for granted that you have deep feelings about my discoveries, or you would not be here. You will do no good to me and my work, for antagonism, once taking hold, cannot be rooted out from above the surface, and it thrives, in a way, on heated argument and digs in deeper. The only way to extract the fear prejudice would be from within, from below, and as naturally this type of prejudiced or frightened mind would dodge any hint of a suggestion of psychoanalytic treatment or even, put it, study and research along these lines, you cannot get to the root of the trouble." (Tribute to #Freud, 86) #psychoanalysis
Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.
Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.
As a non-librarian person that's worked for 17 years as a dev at a library, I agree and also wish people knew we were a safe space and also have free internet and computers, DVDs and BluRays, video games, meeting rooms, a recording studio with mixing gear, free food pantries, a free phone, vending machines, public bathrooms, and a diverse staff. And that's just one little library.
Been coming in here almost every day for nearly 20 years. I don't make as much money as I'd make back in the private sector, but I'd also make less of a positive impact on real people's lives back there.
And so it is very important to support ours librairies, incities many exist and deseirve our help The fascist threat love the way the world numerize himself in occidental countries
I hear you, but at the same time, the electronic infrastructure means you can download, cache and hide any content you want to preserve. The 'woods' of Fahrenheit 451 still exists, where the knowledge will not die.
One hopes it never devolves to that, and the prescience of your warning is not diminished.
not just books but also films, TV shows, and video games. It's already happening with the latter two. Digital only TV shows and games have been removed from the online story and essentially deleted from existence. The library is last bastion because they still take physical book for the most part but the trajectory is not looking good
Another reason to pirate everything. Even if you download some DRM-infested ebooks or audio files legally, you should run it through some DRM-breaking software and store it in a liberated format on a safe storage device. Just in case.
Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age.
that was my first thought when Amazon created the Kindle Fire. It felt like we were bringing book burnings into the digital age. And it was no surprise the first time Amazon reached into Kindle owners devices and removed a version of a book they had purchased replacing it with a new publication.
I think it is important for people to understand the average shelflife of a book in a library. Just because there is a physical copy in a library today does not mean it will not wear out and become irreplaceable.
Decentralized digital archives are even more important than we realize.
And in the digital space, it's important to actually own the e-books you buy. If you can't access it, copy it, or delete it yourself, locally on your device, then you don't own it.
Remember folks, "on the cloud" just means it's someone else's computer.
Not only are they already building the infrastructure for this; they're already using it. It's now been over a decade since Amazon was caught remotely purging copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle devices...
And not just the book itself -- they also removed notes people had saved to their devices about the book.
They've promised they won't do it again though! ...unless they have to, or they think it's in the customers best interest, or they don't get paid enough for the book, or if the customer agrees to it (potentially buried in an EULA or some other nonsense.)
Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age.
I continue to use my local library two or three times a week at the moment with my kids. We borrow every time, to help in part footfall and borrowing stats.
In terms of academic and public access to research, things have genuinely improved with the advent of open access…the sums charged by journals and publishers to academics is a whole other story though.
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
If you use Calibe e-book software to manage your e-books and install the DRM removal plug-in, then DRM is automatically removed. I don't even have to think about it.
Also my e-reader is never online, I transfer books to it using USB.
I keep paper books which have personal significance to me as an object, for example my battered first edition copy of "A Wizard of Earthsea". But I read everything on my e-reader.
Books and their authors/readers should benefit from the technology, while removing its threats, in addition to the fantastic choice of a physical book.
- Centralized of control may be one adverse consequence of DRM, maybe even th main one - but far from being the only one. Accessibility is also hampered. For example, Kindle does not have the scrolling feature that MoonReader has that allows me to read books that otherwise I would not be able to & DRM prevents me from reading ebooks bought on Amazon on MoonReader. And I’d be surprised if alternative ebook stores (with similar book selection) are any better.
I stopped buying ebooks (except for those under creativecommons or other free culture licenses) because the EUCJ ruled that every sale of an ebook is only a "communication to the public" so passing it on is only allowed with permission by the author.
I would not jump to such conclusions. People read, people will read, and people will find ways to get stuff to read. Yes, it is power move, but essentially fruitless against march of progress. Fact they are doing this yes, exposes them for what they are. But unless they have power to force full dictatorship - they do not - this is just a gasp.
the books are going to be deleted from my external hard drive full of pirated PDFs?
Maybe I am missing context but bittorrent is over 15 years old and I don't see how on earth the fascists -- mostly tech illiterate -- could stop someone from running OCR on a book and putting it online.
Thank you! It drives me nuts that many people don't realize digital is controllable. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I feel the same about linking everything financial to a digital app. Having cash is a good thing. So is having a real copy of a challenging book that can be read by anyone.
@JBrodkinWebb Strong agree! Making everything dependent on digital infrastructure is bad in so many ways, especially because the kind of control over your data and, to some degree, extension of self, you're giving away to some third party.
Not only things like your diary, messages to loved ones and friends, or significant images can be stored on digital devices, or often cloud platforms, but more importantly your main source if information comes from such online platforms.
If that's the ONLY place you'll inform yourself through, and all of those places (Twitter, Facebook, Google / Apple News) are well-monitored and algorithmically controlled, then damn a good and critical book will be worth a lot to you.
Five? 6 years ago, there was a huge ruckus about Amazon deleting titles from Kindles over a rights claim. Maybe longer ago. Huge deal at the time, and as it turned out, Amazon was wrong about the title's copyright, IIRC. I think it was actually public domain. So it's already happening.
@bobmueller @CapeBretonGent This event was the precise thing I had in my head when making this post.
The fact you lost control over devices you 'own' (or rather pay full price to be allowed to rent from corporations) in such a way where Amazon doesn't just monitor everything you read, but is also able to remotely delete it off your devices is insane.
The fact locked down and proprietary devices have become so normal is sickening, from John Deere tractors to every smartphone: you cannot escape planned obsolescence and the nonexistence of right to repair #r2r
Only way out of this is FOSS, open hardware, and legislation forcing companies to act in the interest of the consumer, not their corporate interests. Preferably abolish the concept of corporations entirely and democratize them - then no device will be built to be unrepairable and no corporation will seek to take away people's control over their Hardware.
@bobmueller No argument there, my friend. I don’t think most people realize just how precarious their access to information of their own choosing actually is. It does feel as though the noose is tightening.
Speaking of paywall, did you know the Wayback machine bypasses pretty much any news article paywall? (If there isn't an existing archive, use the savepagenow feature).
The Internet Archive is actually hurting the printed books industry by scanning physical copies of copyrighted books and distributing them in their piracy website. That is the cause of the lawsuit.
If you want to support physical books as opposed to controlled DRM, then advocating in favor of the piracy of the Internet Archive is counterproductive.
I have never heard any study suggesting that the Internet Archive, whose digital lending system functions akin to that of a library (INCLUDING **limited* copies being lent*), hurts authors or book publishers.
If you have such a study, as you're making this claim, please share.
I've started to take this approach with #videogames -- only buying games #DRMfree, because if I get stuff with #DRM I can get locked out of them through no fault of my own.
And yes, this has happened before -- on my #Steam account, even.
@kc @rm4 @internetarchive Two things: 1. The Internet Archive has no entitlement whatsoever to decide what is «good» or «better» for authors that choose to copyright their work. In other words, the Internet Archive has no right to decide about someone else's property and rights. If people wanted to write for free, the books would be «copyleft». 2. Furthermore, the proclaimed «limited lending» of the Internet Archive was a sham, see this note: https://mastodon.social/@erikalyn@newsie.social/110084433932175793
I am not sure if you know how libraries work, but they lend out books by authors for free without these books being copyleft or some open license. It's a public service that's important for keeping people's sources of information free.
The Internet Archive lends out books just like that, no matter what your post describes, whether it's “one to one” or not, doesn't matter.
The IA has three partners. The IA got four books. They're lent out in a limited manner. To claim they're giving out some artist's or scientist's work without respecting their copyright is factually wrong.
I think that's one aspect. I've been collecting physical media ever since my friend got all her iTunes erased by Apple a decade or so ago. It's not the only thing, but it's a thing. @ErikUden
You are still missing the point that they are violating the authors' rightful choices. When you work, do you expect someone else to come and arbitrarily distribute your output «for the common good»?
Quote: «whether it's “one to one” or not, doesn't matter». You just admitted that it does not work akin to a library. The piracy model of the Internet Archive «lends» more than the number of physical copies in storage. Maybe you should check how libraries work.
You have a good point. Though I don't think they would eliminate the literature, but rather leave some so that those who read will become demoralized. Seeing the magnitude of the loss. Much like the billionaire's media tolerating Democracy Now, FAIR, and a few other legitimate journalist's reports. It demoralizes people when they see how completely the corporate-fascists have taken over.
True.. as long as #tech is controlled by #capitalists and #corporates their only goal will be to serve and supporting the ruling class.
This is not only a question of digital lirbaries.. Digital money is a big controlling mechanism. Eg: there is a huge thrust for using #DigitalMoney in #India. But even if there is any small disturbance in a place the first thing the government does is cut off #internet thus making all your digital money and transactions impossible.
Perfectly a good time to learn how to use calibre to remove drm. Ive done this. At one point i removed the drm of ebook i bought . And then stored them in an external hardrive for archive purposes
in fact we are already seeing this dynamic play out in American prisons (the testing ground for fascism) where for-profit companies (namely securus) are digitizing all incoming information onto tablets and even trying to get rid of physical books. And they can delete anything they want or take away the tablet at any time.
libraries are getting defunded because the citizenry doesn’t use them. The solution isn’t to keep up the funding, but rather get people to use libraries again. Funding follows the people in a democracy.
@CdnCurmudgeon please do! Take a screenshot or write what I wrote word for word (if you want credit me), I'm happy if the word spreads around - messages like these need to transcend the Fediverse as they're a pull factor to it.
This hadn't occurred to me, but you're quite clearly correct. All the more reason for us all to support our #libraries, and keep them funded and open! 🙏
#Tech *is* apolitical, but the uses to which it is put are not! 😥
In a slightly different context, this is why I prefer to maintain a personal music collection on my own hard disk, where it cannot be taken from me. [I have several back-up copies, to ensure I don't lose it all.]
I also have a text/eBook collection on my hard disk too. 👍😀
Full text PDF of Aram Sinnreich's 2013 book The Piracy Crusade: How The Music Industry's War On Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties, published...
@AndersBaerbock @kc @rm4 @internetarchive Let's also remember that back when piracy was new and laws around it were not so solid, there were many massive movements from artists to legalize it. There was a particularly large one here in Canada spearheaded by bands like Avril Lavigne, Billy Talent, and Barenaked Ladies.
Piracy is in the artist's interests. Know what isn't? Publishers and record labels. But I assume you have no problem with those.
Visible each day in China nowadays at every company surrendering to the Chinese dictatorship for "the huge market and $$$$$$$$$". The party doesn't like a book? "Oh it's gone on all devices".
People don't care anymore. The whole world adopts the US nightmare "I'll work hard without any rest or vacation until I can retire and to do this I need to own 4 houses by then and that's the only thing which counts and I'm ok with a dictatorship if I can have these houses".
Here in the US people move to the biggest theocratic GOP shitholes which ban abortions, ban books on LGBTIQ in schools and universities, ban medical care for transsexual people - but they don't care. HOUSE! LOW TAX! For this, most US Americans would be ready for a theocracy or dictatorship.
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we are already nearing a fascist society. neatly anyone who fights agenst it where i live is called an anarchest so why not be one. rember foss and the fedi is a threat to them cause it is next to impossible to fully controll it.
pretty typical behaviour for drug dealers! The first dose is free and after you're hooked up, you'll pay him money for reading books! How is this not fucked up?!!!
@ErikUden funded by the government with the money it takes from me while threatening me with violence if i refuse. You forgot this one. And if this isn't the definition of exploitation, I don't know what is.
@newt oh no how horrible the government uses your hard earned money (which you're making through an education provided by the government) to build libraries to educate people and keep information alive
Let's complain about that instead of the 700 billion military budget
The definition of exploitation is forcing you to work while most of the value you produce is going straight into someone else's pocket. The U.S. government is that, true, because there you're not even getting anything back for your money. Pay as high taxes as in Europe, sometimes even higher, you get no public transport, no good or free (secondary) education, no healthcare.
But then it's not just the government exploiting ya but also corporations, awesome country. Truly the land of the free haha
@newt lmao this thread is a trainwreck - still, no matter what country you're from, the money that's going to public libraries is not where you should start complaining about government spending.
@rm4 the national library already exists. It's called Nationalbibliothek. Every German-language book etc. published in Germany must be made physically available to the national libraries in Leipzig and Frankfurt.
I bought an 18TB HDD and am putting all the anime I watch on it. I keep everything available and seed it for others who try to download for a long time
@JoeQuinlan Thank you, Joe! I value your opinion as a union worker a lot and what you commented is precisely what I think each time one of your views, observations, and comments pops up on my timeline!
@awwaiid authors need to survive, sadly! Sure, you can blame them for being sold through such stores and not just offered as a PDF / epub, but to be honest: the average reader can't use those.
The average reader can download Calibre for their computer or free ereader software for their phone and buy direct from authors who offer this option on their websites. Hell, I ever dropped my prices for my Buy Direct option to encourage potential readers to do this. They will own the ebooks this way and not have to worry about vendors like Amazon or Apple deleting them. I'd really like to see this become more of a mainstream thing.
Taks advantage of something that is political: other english-speaking countries. The internet archive has a site associated with University of Toronto, Kobo, the competitor to Kindle is headquartered here, and National Library is healthy. Our nazis have their own political party, though, called "reform", but it's last three leaders are pretty unelectable. And Australia is beating FaceGoogle at controlling media.
My biggest worry--which probably would've been considered paranoid 10 years ago--is all these digital editions getting tweaked. So offensive stuff gets re-written or "glossed over" with pretty speech or something else. After all, if there's anything we've learned from history, it's that the victors write it. So would it really be farfetched to think some digital bookseller wouldn't find a way to censor some works and sell them? If enough people don't know the book has been heavily edited, they'll believe it (and if you already have a hard copy, why get a digital one and notice the difference?). Give it a couple centuries and we'll have a completely unrecognizable Constitution and Bill of Rights printed in textbooks, the way we're going.
@caffeinatedbookdragon Strong agree on this one. 20 years ago people would be outraged, but through boiling the frog, books being censored by a media monopoly is pretty normal and accepted.
@xs4me2 The same man that has written those words worked for the very institutions he warned people of. George Orwell was not only a colonial warlord but someone who worked for the British secret service to spy on people from the socialist or communist movements.
It is called learning from your experiences or faults. We are all entitled to do that, thought it is better to learn from others before. Education and knowledge helps ;)
😢 I resisted e-books for so long, because I love the physicality of books. but with 40+ eyes I love being able to expand the text when my eyes are tired, read without the overhead light at night, and get the next book in the series instantly.
Guess I'll go buy physical copies of all those N. K. Jemisin books I love.
Precisely why the books I have are on my local hard drive, compressed on to a 2nd hard drive, and backed up to a server I'm mostly in control of. Oh, and they've been stripped of their DRM if they had any.
Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age.
Like, if I read a DRM-free ebook on Apple's iPad app, they can't delete it. They could maybe delete it from that device but I'd still have it. Whereas if I download an open-source ebook reader, that won't make my Amazon ebooks suddenly DRM-free.
I just think FOSS is a completely orthogonal issue to DRM and platformisation and I worry it's being kinda sold as a technical solution to a societal problem
This is why I store things on my own servers as backup. Not just DRM, but at any moment content can just disappear at a moments notice, even if you paid for them. I'd be worried about more important things if facism takes over (because you know, holy shit we are in trouble), but at least with capitalism I just have to worry about DRM and paywalls which can be, well, "dealt with".
small ebook sellers do sell drm-unencumbered ebooks but they're very rare.
It's very frustrating since music and podcasts are on open standards where the buyer's rights are protected, and yet ebooks are still wrapped up in nonsense.
If that happens they could use algorithms to make sure you don't even notice that your titles are slowly disappearing, and then blame it on a bug. You wouldn't really know if someone flipped a switch or if there was some bug. Pair this with social media algorithms and location tracking, and the "bugs" will seem like isolated incidents. Can I patent that idea now so they can't do it?
Take that a step further for giggles, so lets say society goes full digital. No physical money, no written texts of any kind. Thousands of years after humanity blips out of existence, if someone or something else comes looking for proof of what used to exist here there'll be no written record of our existence.
An alternate scenario: A full digital society would allow an existence only people in countries like China or Russia know, where they are told what to think and what not to think, if it's not an approved book it doesn't exist or it is deleted and the author imprisoned.
Digital rights management (DRM) is the use of technology to control and manage access to copyrighted material. Another DRM meaning is taking control of digital content away from the person who possesses it and handing it to a computer program.
Privatize to profit from. That's what Republicans mean when they say "small government". It's also why they hate any kind of regulations or oversight and call it "control".
Keep your Kindle in a locked metal box wrapped in tinfoil and disable all external interfaces. Back up onto hard drive. So there… The archive of forbidden texts.
I know it's an exception, but I was so pleased to wander into the middle of Essex town Saffron Walden on Saturday and see the library in an important building right on the central market square. And my childhood treasure house in Banstead, at the end of the high street, is better than ever. But the bookshop went - I reasoned that not enough residents were willing to fight for its survival. It's now a vape shop.
"Authoritarian turn, Autoritäre Wende", I heard that term first from Arne Semsrott in his excellent presentation at the recent Chaos Computer Congress. I think this nails it, as the trajectory clearly points to that direction.
The library doesnt have most of my niche danmei novels though, so I get them all on amazon XD
At the end of the day, I am just a weeb, so I use whatever tech I need to take part in my beloved fandom community: here, insta for all the cosplayers worldwide, twitch for the vtubers, threads, X, reddit, discord, etc :D
I am everywhere, so I can share my passion with fellow fans all over the world :D
It already happened when Amazon realised it had been selling books on Kindle where it didn't own the rights. They even deleted Orwell's "1984" from customers' Kindle devices.
Owners of Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader are protesting after they were mistakenly sold illegal copies of George Orwell's books - and then saw them deleted from their gadgets without their knowledge
I have not so horrible fears for the next 2 decades there.
But other media? Libraries are now actively phasing out CDs/DVDs from their inventory. Instead they opt to rent digital services WITH DRM and horrible narrow portfolio.
@chiraag The fact that a relative few platforms control access to e-books, whether they are for purchase or through library lending systems, and that said access can be revoked through DRM, means you can’t say “banning books in libraries doesn’t matter because people/the kids will just get it on the internet.” It’s easy to take that away, too.
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.” ― Assata Shakur
Again I say "piracy is curation" and furthermore I encourage everyone to practice hyperlocal data archiving of the sort that can't be deleted remotely. Make the bastards go door to door with guns and dogs and metal detectors.
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