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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (pluralistic.net)

submitted 9 months ago by kpw@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If this rhetoric was used in a conservative opinion piece instead of a pro piracy opinion piece, I'm pretty sure it would be banned for calling for violence towards specific individuals.

Guillotine preview image and quotes like:

Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over an anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. But save the next anthill for the Sony exec who shipped a product that would let Zaslav come into your home and rob you. That piece of shit knew what they were doing and they did it anyway. Fuck them. Sideways. With a brick.

Sure, Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California, the loathsome David Zaslav, who oversaw the merger of Warner with Discovery.

What a trash article and site. How is this permitted.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Clutch those pearls a little tighter.

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Is it too much to ask for civil, level headed, and nuanced discussion or posts?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it would be banned for calling for violence towards specific individuals.

People with no attachment to reality might overreact like that, but the rest of us have reading comprehension on our side.

deserves to be staked out over an anthill

"deserves to be": this is a phrase commonly used when people are basically venting, but it almost never suggests that someone should actually do the action. Just search for the phrase "deserves to be string up" and you'll see just how common it is.

As for "over an anthill", when someone describes an outrageous situation, that's yet another clue that they're venting, not proposing an actual action.

Honest people who read the news and opinion pieces should know this, so either you're new to reading, or you're dishonest.

Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive

Again, first day reading? Or just dishonest?

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, I've just been living in American for the past 30 years or so and have an understanding of what inflammatory and dehumanizing attacks on individuals and groups does to society. And even if it's permissible based on the rules of this community, it's still garbage journalism.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Living in American? What does that even mean?