I don’t like scarcity as a mechanism. I think it should be easy to mark something as human/nonhuman. The filtering is done by you when you decide whose list to subscribe to. Of course this idea allows for CA-type organizations to exist, but not just them. You could also subscribe to your buddy, a crowd-sourced list, etc.

For websites, it’s not hard to imagine how it can be implemented. We already have communities and individuals who maintain trusted blacklists for advertising and for scams. It’s not hard to imagine the same mechanisms for blocking slop sites. Conversely, you could have a browser extension that shows a green mark or something next to websites based on a whitelist.

Users are harder, because there’s a lot of them and the same person might use several online platforms. It would be more practical if more websites used some form of universal ID or other mechanism to prove you are the same user across platforms. I don’t think its unsolvable, but it definitely needs some thought.

I’m expecting someone to come up with some sort of distributed trust system. I’m imagining being able to tag user content or websites you trust to be human-made and high quality, and being able to view tags by other people you trust.

I didn’t make a statement on the morality of piracy, though. I only stated a fact about the DMCA and said I’m not sure what the EU situation is, hoping someone might know and add to the discussion. If people are downvoting me because they think I said piracy is bad, as you believe, then they are imagining things.

Personally, I think piracy is totally fine most of the time. The copyright system is immoral and does much more harm than good. Case in point, downloading a video from youtube should be allowed and the DMCA is working against the interest of the average person in making it illegal.

DRM of what kind is illegal where?

The problem in cases like this is not the copying, but the ability to bypass DRM. Creating and distributing tools that can do that is illegal in the US due to the DMCA. I think there are similar laws in the EU but I’m not sure.

In case anyone reading this is wondering if @[email protected] and Drew DeVault are imagining meanings behind these words, you can go and read the entire article:

https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

In context, it is clear that Paul Graham regards any public protest for social justice to be performative and born from a need to feel morally superior to others. “Racism […] is a genuine problem”, but you are only ever allowed to “quietly” help marginalized groups. His examples for the birth of “wokeness” are people starting to report sexual harassment and racist language. Paul is very mad that people told him it’s not ok to call black people “negros” and it shows plainly in his writing.

He does not give one example of what would be a real racist thing that you are allowed to get mad and vocal about. He does not give one example of proper not-“woke” activism. This is the telltale sign of a fascist pretending to be a moderate worried about the “intolerant left”. Social justices exist, but I won’t name a single one. Helping minorities is good, but every time I see it happen it’s bad and I’m going to call it out.

Where are you searching for updates? Your motherboard manufacturer should release firmware updates that include the microcode patches.