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Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order
(torrentfreak.com)
hey belgium your waffles suck
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Don't they have anything better to do ?
FYI Belgian "site blocks" are still just simple DNS blocks at the ISP level.
You can easily get around it by using any of the well known public DNS resolvers.
Cheatsheet:
Google: 8.8.8.8
Cloudflare: 1.1.1.1
Quad9: 9.9.9.9
And if they make them change the results just in Belgium you can set up something simple like a pihole on a cheap VM with any random VPS and use the VM as your DNS server. Just make sure to host the VM somewhere that wont have the restrictions.
Belgium can go fuck itself with all the waffles and chocolate it exploits from other countries.
Plus its pedos.
Waffles did nothing wrong :(
Copyright is stupid everywhere
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To think about it ... "major shadow libraries". That's something wrong now.
So - there was a liberal (bourgeois) revolution, there was a labor revolution, and now, I think, we must have another revolution. The word "libertarian" is unfortunately associated with ancap, despite being the same as "anarchist", which is unfortunately associated with ancom. And the word "democratic" has lost any meaning it had.
So they'll have to invent some new term.
But the time is nigh.
Post-ironic anti-centrist
Just checked, indeed blocked.
Another new warning page.
We had the Russian, Chinese, etc... censorhip page.
The dubious porn or drugs warning page.
And now this, the 'forbidden' page mentions illegal gambling sites for some reason.
Wow Belgium, I thought you were a bit cooler than that
People, including many Europeans, make a lot of assumptions about Europe.
Americans in particular seem to assume that issues fall along the same political Dem/Rep divide as in the US. That gives them bad ideas. European countries have more solid social safety nets, more accessible and cheaper health care and education, more developed and usable public transport systems, ...
On other issues like immigration or racism, they are on a MAGA-level. There is no big controversy because it is widely taken for granted that European nations are ethno-states. This is less so in the former colonial powers Britain and France. But they have their own baggage that gnaws at them from within, just like the history of racial segregation undermines the USA.
Another area where Europe is just different from the US is freedom of information. It's just not respected in the same way. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is held in much higher regard. That's how it has been for a long time.
Now that the copyright industry is waging an all-out lobby battle against citizens, you can expect much more like this.
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Is there any European nation that favors freedom of press?
I was planning on emigrating there, due to LGBTQIA+ rights, metros, and elevation. But this has soured my choice.
What is the point with Internet archive & Belgium in your post?
Freedom of information in the internet. Belgium should not have made this law, or enforced it. It's one thing to have a law in your nation for wild card situations, but this is about not allowing Belgians access to information outside their libraries that may contradict state narratives & agendas.
you can't just emigrate to somewhere. (are you nihon jin?)
Curious about your elevation point, since we (with NL) are called the low countries.
Flat as a pancake except for some Ardennes, which are nice.
If it's for climate stuff you should know this means we are on or just above sea level, and some even below.
We do get high a lot tho.
nihon jin?)
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Curious about your elevation point
Over 60+meters above sea level, expecting all the glaciers melt after 3.0°C
I’m aware how lengthy and unaccepting emigrations are throughout Europe. I know at minimum it takes 6months to 3 years to validate permanent residency.
I'd expect it to be cracked down entirely within the next 2-3 years. The EU has wet dreams of absolute control
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Intellectual property is stupid, but I don't know why you would blame belgium especially here. The whole world signed threaty regarding copyrights.
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In The Netherlands we still have a freedom of press: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/media-en-publieke-omroep/persvrijheid-bewaken and we are also progressive on the LGBTQ+ front.
LOL Try saying something about Palestine
There are enough articles about it and you can just post it.
But there is a group that will be aggressive towards you, yeah that is a growing tread. Mostly because of the extreme left and right growing ... It is still art. 8 of our constitution which is very hard to chance
The way it’s portrayed online you’d think the Netherlands is the most civilized society ever formed by humankind. I know that nowhere is perfect, but it does seem like a really nice place to live. If only the language weren’t so silly.
But it's Netherlands.
They haven’t built mountains, and it will get resubmerged. It’s the deelevation/sinking that I haven't emigrated foremost. Everything else, yes, I want to become a citizen for.
Only half of the country is below sea level tbf
Come and visit me often then in Brussels & Wallonia. We can picnic @ Wilhelminatoren often.
I don't see many listings in Vaalserbergweg.
Thanks for the offer, but I recently bought a house in NL decently close to the BE/NL border, so I'll be visiting your country enough :P
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I'd say that European nations have a different understanding of press freedom. Mind that the individual nations have different attitudes toward this.
In Germany, press means mainly newspapers. The publishers owning these papers are very keen on copyright enforcement. Copyright does conflict with freedom of information but, I think, most would not see a conflict with press freedom.
The EU is determined to regulate who is allowed to use data for what purpose and to create the legal tools to enforce that. That's not limited to copyright. I'm very worried about that trend on many levels.
But I don't think Yuri creators will face problems in most EU countries in the foreseeable future.
But blocking Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library is such a terrible way to express that you hate press.
Science and academics should be freely pressed, without the authoritarianism of copyright. If my yuri koma was discussing prion synthesis, one shouldn’t deter me for referencing the journal.
You can see how trully Freedom-loving mainstream Liberal parties are, even in Europe, by looking at the domains were Freedom Of Ideas clashes with Ideas As Property such as science publishing: almost all of those "Liberal" mainstream parties side with the Owner Class in expanding and increasing enforcement of the "though shall not share without paying" Intellectual Property laws that let some make money of something they are only able to own due to such laws (those laws are literally anti-natura in that ideas are naturally shared), rather than with the natural freedom of sharing.
The way States support and impose Intellectual Property is really just a facet of the broader societal problem of politics in Capitalist nations (even those disguised as "Democracy") not really working for the many.
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