What do you define as a big corporation? And why exactly should we abolish them?

The problem is that without copyright all a big company has to do is steal the work of smaller unknown artists and profit from it big time. The smaller artist then has zero recourse to get any money because their avenue for profit is ruined. Copyright allows them to sue the person who stole their work and get the profits from that.

No it isn’t. Nobody like mass shootings. Even 2a supporters (of which I am not one) don’t like mass shootings. Nobody (except some crazies) actually want more mass shootings.

You are an asshole of unmitigated proportions.

Without copyright law, innovation is stifled because nobody can afford to spend time creating.

This is a complete oversimplification of everythin.

1. Yes, downloading music for free is theft. Creators do deserve to be paid for their work.
2. Youtube ignores fair use, which is wrong. But they run the platform, they can do what they like. ContentID is the worst idea they ever came up with. But again, they are just trying to avoid being sued over and over and over again, so I kinda understand their position. It sucks, but again, they have the right to do what they like with their own platform.
3. I would argue that using information for the training of an AI is fair use. The information is just used to set weights that the AI then uses to generate text. The actual text is not stored in any database anywhere. So whether Microsoft does it, or I do it, it is the same. I can train a LLM on data as well. I just don’t have tthe money for the very expensive hardware to do it.

The only problem with lemmy right now is lack of users.

I don’t really know. But something needs to change. Our system is broken on a fundamental level. There is very little accountability for those who are in the system. Police get slaps on the wrist when they outright murder people. Illegal detentions almost never result in anything because they are so commonplace. Judges rubber stamp lawsuits in the favor of police giving qualified immunity to every cop for everything. Judges have absolute immunity for actions taken from the bench, so you can’t sue a judge when they break the law. District Attorneys bully people into accepting plea agreements even though they are innocent by threatening insane jailtime you go to trial and lose. Juries take the word of police like it is gospel truth from heaven, and will convict you just because you are black. The FBI and related agencies are worse.

realistically, I don’t see anything less than civil war fixing it at this point. And that kind of scares me.

The constitutionality has already been determined by the courts. You can’t register journalism. National Association of Broadcasters v. FCC (1991) SCOTUS has already ruled on this. It is blatantly unconstitutional and they know it. There needs to be jailtime when politicians do things like this.

There needs to be legal consequences for politicians who introduce blatantly unconstitutional bills. They know it is unconstitutional, but they don’t care because there are zero consequences for violating the constitution. Just like with police, they don’t care about reform, because they never face any consequences. This needs to stop. People need to start going to jail for shit like this.

I don’t really know, they just said my account was permanently suspended for violations of the rules. They never said what rule I broke or what post broke the rule. They also never gave me a warning about it.

I think robert@frankel.com would be much more professional.

I got banned on reddit, so I searched for reddit alternative in google.

It really depends on what part of the fediverse you are in. Mastodon is not too different from twitter that a boomer with a familiarity with twitter shouldn’t have too much trouble with a mastodon instance. The biggest thing to wrap your head around is the fact that not everything is run by a single company. So you have to find a server that you like, and then sign up on that server.