Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 90

Make no mistake, FB and the rest of the corporate tech giants will do their best to make any internet rules - national or international - work in their favour, and make life hard for smaller players. Just as they have with the #EUCopyrightDirective. But it's also an opportunity for tech activists and civil society groups to do the opposite, and get rules on things like #Dataportability in #OpenFormats, that empower users to transition from the#DataFarms to community-scale #EthicalTech platforms.

#RogerMcNamee makes some good points about the carefully crafted gaps in FB's regulation proposals:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/02/mark-zuckerberg-fix-the-internet

... but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. The internet is a global medium, like the telephone or postal networks. It does make sense to have international treaties on user rights and internet regulation, so the operators of every website, big or small, can follow one clear set of rules that apply in every jurisdiction where the net can be accessed.

In that scenario, who do regulators try to blame for that DIY livestream? The ISPs that supply a standard consumer-grade net connection? Do they have to vet everything their customers do before they do it? We've had this debate before, many times, over copyright violation, child abuse representations, and so on. The free and open internet, as we know it, cannot exist if ISPs face these liabilities. With all due respect to #JacindaArdern, they are *not* the publisher, they *are* the postman.

Making people host their own #LiveStreams, by leasing server resources and setting up #FreeCode streaming software, just shifts the problem sideways. Then instead of FB, the #PrivacyCommissioner and the #ChiefCensor would be blaming whichever ISP leased use of their server to people who used it for objectionable streams.

Happy 60th Birthday to Mark Adler (@madler), who co-wrote gzip, zip and the zlib library, contributed to PNG development and has had significant roles in pla netary exploration missions while at JPL and has an extremely out of date website. ;)

It worries me that regulators in #NZ don't understand the difference between a publisher and an ISP. Publishers have editors to check content before publication and are liable for what they publish. ISPs moderate after-the-fact, if at all, and users liable as the publisher, not the ISP. Offering free #LiveStreaming services to the public wouldn't be practical if every stream had to be vetted in advance:
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/386257/facebook-tells-privacy-commissioner-it-hasn-t-changed-its-livestreaming-at-all

LibreOffice tip: Center a picture in a Writer Table's cell? Anchor as ▸Center buttons in Formating (horizontally) & Table (vertically) toolbars

After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn't require filters, top EU Commissioner says "Article 13 requires filters" http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/AD6zc6a6N-Q/i-hate-being-right.html #boingboing #article_13 #Copyfight #copyright_directive #eu #eucd #filters #france #germany #Gunther_Oettinger #hadopi

The final straw: EU Parliament has just voted to ban single-use plastics in bid to tackle pollution

Single-use plastic items such as plates, cutlery, straws, balloon sticks or cotton buds, will be banned in the EU from 2021 under new legislation just passed.

https://brightvibes.com/1037/en/the-final-straw-eu-parliament-has-just-voted-to-ban-single-use-plastics-in-bid-to-tackle-pollution

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