Jesus fuck, I didn't even know about this. That's an actually dystopian draft, holy shit that's bad – here's to hoping that either the final is much saner than what the current draft is, or that it just doesn't get signed by eg. EU countries, but I'm not exactly feeling hopeful
Ah surprising that Poland's still got copyright laws that relaxed, I thought they'd been more or less harmonized in the whole EU. Finland's laws used to be pretty much like what you describe too, but they were changed… uh, fuck, I think 10 – 20 years ago to be stricter and I have a vague memory that they claimed it was to be more in line with how most other countries are in the EU, but it's very much possible that either the politicians behind this lied, or that I remember wrong
Absolutely not at all surprising and this is why the fascists are currently winning just about everywhere in the "western world", but it is what it is.
Pain is the price of being connected with the world I guess (in an abstract sense, not in the more concrete sense like internet connections are painful. Or, well…)
W-wait, was… was that a joke, or are you serious? I was about to upvote you because lol, but then I noticed others have taken you seriously and now I don't know what to believe
But surely you can't be suggesting that the homeless man should be housed for free, so that someone who has contributed so much to society has to bear the costs?
Maybe we should let the free markets decide: first, the criminal should sign a completely voluntary contract which specifies that his new owner is entitled to assign to him any work they deem a suitable compensation for his upkeep during his sentence (not signing the contract or shirking work duties leads to a doubling of the sentence and immediate transfer to an isolation cell for the remainder of his sentence), then put him up for auction and sell him to the highest bidder
I mean come on, who is really the one more deserving of punishment here: the fine upstanding job creator who had a small and momentary lapse of judgement, or the clearly bootstrap-deficient monster who – after choosing to be poor – doesn't have the moral fortitude to live on the streets like he should?
How US-centric is Ground News?