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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 20:07:52 JST Aral Balkan

   Dear Silicon Valley tech bros,

   I hear you think you can do whatever you want with posts on the Internet if they’re publicly available so I have a challenge for you.

   Here’s a link to The Guardian—all their posts are publicly accessible:

   https://www.theguardian.com/europe

   1. Create your own site and copy the posts there.

   2. Let me know what happens.

   Or are you saying there should be one rule for corporations and another for human beings where the former are protected and the latter are not?

   #consent

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 20:35:30 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • &Olga

     @andOlga Feel free to come up with one and I’ll boost it :)

   • &Olga (andolga@girlcock.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 20:35:31 JST &Olga

     in reply to

     @aral While I understand the point you're trying to make, literally *all* news sites do is copy shit from each other 🤣 A better example might be in order...

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 23:12:10 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Sam Machin

     @sammachin Technically, yes. Practically, it would be expensive and I don’t know if there is any precedent. Mind you, that’s how precedent is set :)

     (Mine are under CC BY-NC-SA.)

   • Sam Machin (sammachin@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 23:12:11 JST Sam Machin

     in reply to

     @aral I wonder what the situation would be if I published all my toots under a CC-NC license, then if someone republished it on a commercial (ad funded) platform would that be a breach of license and I could sue them?