Not like, casual “Hi, how are you?” but seriously, how are you? Are you sleeping okay, is everything in your personal life going all right? And if not, can Internet strangers do anything to help?

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    can Internet strangers do anything to help?

    Thank you for asking, sincerely, but if Internet strangers tear into me for just having my comments have licensing footer text, there’s no way I’m going to start stating any of my real issues that I’m dealing with, for them to judge.

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      real issues

      Really not trying to be rude, but it’s like going out dressed up like a clown, and then wondering why no one takes you seriously.

      The person dressed as a clown could still have cancer, but people aren’t gonna ask about your health because you’re dressed like a clown. Perception sets expectations.

      To a lot of us, the licensing text is silly and superfluous, sorry. The courts the world over prioritize corporations over individuals and if you try to sue an AI company for scraping your comments… no offense but you’ll probably lose unless you’re a secret billionaire. That’s why it’s silly and superfluous, because the likelihood of you actually being able to protect them as intellectual property is near zero.

      You literally put it in every comment, and thus, people look at you like you’re dressed like a clown.

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        You’re defeatist attitude, and being so readily willing to give up your rights and protections, is disturbing to see.

        Metaphorically speaking, you don’t have to suck corporate penis automatically. It’s okay to push back, even if you fail, at least you can look at yourself in the mirror the next morning.

        Believe more in yourself, and of those other citizens around you. Don’t give in to the despair.

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          It’s not a defeatist attitude, it’s that we have fundamentally different views on copyright and intellectual property rights.

          I didn’t want to get into that part because why argue when we’re clearly on different pages, but since you want to call it defeatist and telling me I’m sucking corporate dick instead of wondering why I feel differently, I guess I’ll give it a go.

          Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

          -Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 1968

          I was influenced in my thought on this kind of stuff by people like Debord and Mark Hosler from Negativland.

          To mangle a quote from Hosler from a video I haven’t been able to find online in almost 20 years:

          “If you want to have control over your art: Keep it to yourself. Keep it in your home. Don’t show it to people.”

          As Dawkins theorized with memetics, when an idea is accepted into a new mind, the idea propagates and changes as it moves between people. Once that idea has been ingested by someone else’s mind, you can’t take it out of their mind again. They are already generating new ideas based on the meme of your art, thought, ideas. Copying each other is literally just how human communication works, and all this work to lay claim over it is at the very best superfluous and at the very worst a gross instinct of domination and control as opposed to sharing.

          Creative Commons doesn’t even offer the license that Negativland helped develop anymore.

          Am I giving up my rights or am I living in the actual real world of how real human communication actually works? If I wanted control over these ideas, I wouldn’t bother sharing them.

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              Thanks for the purposeful misreading and at no point making an attempt to engage with a different set of ideas. We’re done here and I will be shitting on you and your stupid fucking license vociferously from here on out because you’re an arrogant egotistical asshole.

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                Thanks for the purposeful misreading and at no point making an attempt to engage with a different set of ideas.

                Hard disagree. And I stand by what I’ve said.

                We’re done here and I will be shitting on you and your stupid fucking license vociferously from here on out because you’re an arrogant egotistical asshole.

                It would probably be easier (and more mature) to just use the block functionality, but you do you, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

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                  You can hard disagree all you want, you literally dismissed the ideas without even considering them, but sure, you do you too, buddy.

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          I want to steal that footer

          Here you go…

          [~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en)

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        Your footer rules, don’t let them haters win!

        Thanks, I appreciate the support. And don’t worry I won’t. This isn’t my first rodeo with those who don’t like it. I just wish there was more moderation on Lemmy to combat it, so I can spend more time just interacting with others on posts content itself.

        My point was just to say that while I’m sure there’s good and decent human beings who may disagree but be able to debate issues online with each other, there’s a whole other bunch that would rather just see things burn, if it doesn’t line up exactly to their personal belief system, and that makes it problematic for someone to expose their inner issues to everyone else, even when they desperately need their help.

        And that’s before throwing in conflict AI bots, and astroturfers trying to generate activity, that just pollutes the waters even more.

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          Safe Harbor laws say otherwise. And Law trump ToS.

          And I do believe that licenses will be enforced at some point, right now we’re still in the Wild Wild West portion of things. Doesn’t mean I don’t want to lay down my markers now.

          Also, I specifically want to make sure my comments are available for training for open source projects, which is what the license does.

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      People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.

      You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯\(ツ)

      People used to put goofy-ass sign-offs on comments back in forum days; a couple extra lines of text that don’t hurt anybody shouldn’t be an issue.

      You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos

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        People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.

        My inner tinfoil hat persona thinks its just corporate bots/astroturfers trying to shape the narratived away from every adding a license to their comments, as it truly does hold legal power.

        Regular people either agree to different degress, or think its harmless and don’t care. Its only a few that REALLY REALLY REALLY get bent out of shape about it, for strange reasons (which goes back to fueling my inner tinfoil hat persona).

        You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯(ツ)/¯

        Exactly, or moreso, additionally. My license allows for open-source/non-profit usage of my content, giving back to everybody else.

        I just don’t believe that Corporations should be able to make money off of my content without compensating me for it, as that is one of the fundamental tenants of Capitalism.

        You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos

        Thanks for your support, its appreciated. o7

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