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Gender race v12: a new beginning

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[PokeCommunity.com] Gender race v12: a new beginning
 
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Triple we are again!
 
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Girls shall not win!
 
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IV said:
I thought real life was that
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Real life is when you try to access a website only to realize that you're being IP-blocked. Like, we all like to talk about China's dictatorial censorship. But even in the west this becoming more and more of a practice.

Example 1: when a piece of work enters public domain is completely dependent on the country. In one country it could be but in another it may not be. A German book publisher once sued projectgutenberg for offering free copies (public domain in the US) of four books. The court ruled in favor of those publishers and the website was either to remove those books or make them inaccessible to people in Germany. So what did they do? They took the easy way out and blocked the entire country from all of their services.

Examples 2: I was just doing some research on the web and ended up on a website that didn't just block my country, but the entire EU. It was very much a reminder that Article 19 exists. And I think 2021 is when it is set in motion? Obviously people are currently busy with more life threatening things. But it still exists and I know at least one country that isn't exactly prepared for it. The same country that was responsible for it.
Btw. did you know who was responsible for that mess? It was caused by a corrupted politician from the conservative CDU party of Germany, the party who also was in rule for the last 16 years (and fortunately won't be for the next four years...hopefully), who was involved with a lot of lobby work with a bunch of corporations who really wanted their property protected from those evil evil users on the internet.

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Megan said:
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Real life is when you try to access a website only to realize that you're being IP-blocked. Like, we all like to talk about China's dictatorial censorship. But even in the west this becoming more and more of a practice.

Example 1: when a piece of work enters public domain is completely dependent on the country. In one country it could be but in another it may not be. A German book publisher once sued projectgutenberg for offering free copies (public domain in the US) of four books. The court ruled in favor of those publishers and the website was either to remove those books or make them inaccessible to people in Germany. So what did they do? They took the easy way out and blocked the entire country from all of their services.

Examples 2: I was just doing some research on the web and ended up on a website that didn't just block my country, but the entire EU. It was very much a reminder that Article 19 exists. And I think 2021 is when it is set in motion? Obviously people are currently busy with more life threatening things. But it still exists and I know at least one country that isn't exactly prepared for it. The same country that was responsible for it.
Btw. did you know who was responsible for that mess? It was caused by a corrupted politician from the conservative CDU party of Germany, the party who also was in rule for the last 16 years (and fortunately won't be for the next four years...hopefully), who was involved with a lot of lobby work with a bunch of corporations who really wanted their property protected from those evil evil users on the internet.

/rant
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That is one reason I use a VPN for everything.


ReKoil said:
552 since Megan counted down instead of up =o
Unless you meant to switch sides? 😊
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You keep your cookies, I'm pretty confident Megan will choose our offered cake instead ;)

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