Daxter101

I don't get the joke.

Is it anal prep?

Am I too gay to get it?

Disney wins in that scenario, because they have more resources to spend on getting their media out there.

As... Opposed to now?

If Disney does plagiarize small artists' work, and becomes known for it, they take a reputation hit, and the artist gets an explosion of exposure, as long as it is provable he made the original story. (Disney making million-dollar budget movies of your OC, isn't even that bad for you, to be honest, but let's assume that it doesn't market the fuck out of your small artist story. In real life, stories are not in competition.)

If Disney doesn't, then it's an undeniable positive for worldwide creativity.

The only thing copyright protects, is big companies' exclusive right to public-consciousness characters.

1. The current system doesn't protect small writers either. Look at the amount of money plagiarism gets you, with copyright law in effect.

And

2. at the stage where you're big enough for copyright to effectively protect you, provable publication dates take care of that problem through reputation. If you become known(read: found out) as a plagiarist, you get the boot from the public zeitgeist, never to receive public money again.

Copyright only protects the Mouse's bottom line, and strangleholds creativity.

That's year round.

Prion City here we GOOOOOOOOO!

That is a guaranteed path to fascism.

I'm not gonna say that the chances are good, but if they refuse, and win, and then walk back the changes, maybe fascism can be averted.

If they walk into using these tools and normalise them even more, then when the other party gets the government again, you get a republican fascist, and if the other party never gets the government again, it's because you got a "democrat" fascist.

Don't race to the bottom, everyone loses there.

Even to the (insufficient, overblown) extent that it happens, lifting "the poor" Han Chinese out of poverty by putting other populations (Uighurs) under slave labour instead, is not the moral win you're implying.

If an ethnic cleansing is part of the requirements, to stop committing humanitarian atrocities towards "the poor", that's still an atrocity.

Disclaimer, the USA, just like every authoritarian state, is also disgusting and criminal.

You should see my post then

They think it starts conversation, but it doesn't. Not the way they want. It's not meaningful

This is exactly the opposite of what the article, and the scientific research in it concluded.

They need a better leader

And this is authoritarian-speak.

Now I'm thinking of titty pump-action milk-shooting, but the Action Movie pump-action kind

Stop. I'm too egg for this

Heaien looks dope