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"In a bizarre turn of events over the past few weeks, Spain’s high court
ordered a ban on Telegram because some users (gasp!) used the tool to share
copyright-protected content. The judge then suspended his own order a few days
later after receiving a lot of criticism. Then, the judge asked the police to
investigate the potential impact of such a ban on users. Confused? Welcome to
the twisted world of copyright nonsense.
Sometimes it’s odd to me how basically every internet speech story in the first
decade of the 2000s was really a story about copyright. And then, post-SOPA,
there were still some copyright stories, but things focused more on other legal
issues, such as Section 230 or now the DSA. That’s not to say that copyright’s
impact on speech has gone away, because of course it has not. But it’s felt
strange how it seemed to at least fade a bit towards the background.
Last week, though, we had a story that felt very much like a story from a
decade or so ago: Spain’s high court ordered a ban of the entire (extremely
popular) Telegram messaging app after four large Spanish media companies whined
about people sharing infringing materials via the app."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
