[mythtv-users] OT: "Freedom of speech" (was:Switching away from comcast to online streams)

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Buhrmaster" <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>
> wrote:
> ....
> > I don't agree with the protocol myself, but *it's not my list*, so I
> > shut up about it.
> 
> I believe the relevant statement is something like
> "Your network, your rules".....

There is a tendency these days to assert things like "hey! The constitution
guarantees my freedom of speech!" about things like web fora and mailing 
lists.

While that was much more true in the Usenet days -- the distributed nature
of the network tended to insulate people and projects from the possible
ramifications of things said by independent third parties, which was one
of the many unexpected consequences of the network's senesence -- it's not
at all true of those newer replacements; *someone* is on the hook.

And since we <horse type="hobby">have not yet fixed, and are unlikely
to properly fix, litigation and torts, this century</horse>, people
like the Myth project leaders will have to continue to [I will phrase it
this way, hoping it's clear to them that it's the system I am attacking]
cower in fear that some large corporation will ruin their lives by suing
them over something it *looks* like someone advocated in their name.

Gawker is about to go to court over Contributory Infringement, for a link
to the Tarantino script that leaked, and hopefully that will get decided
on the merits, and broadly enough that it will do us some good in things
like this... but I'm not counting on it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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