I have to wonder whether censorship of holocaust denial would be equally wrong provided the deniers could back it up. That said I'd like to see them try given the existence of concentration camps and The Final Solution so I guess the point is somewhat moot.
No. The fact that YouTube is full of junk means I wouldn't lose any sleep if it wasn't available, for whatever reason.
And whose fault is that?! Like I say, the chickens are coming home to roost - perhaps if YouTube had taken a more responsible approach to copyright law in the first place, it wouldn't be facing such a problem now. Same goes for other 'businesses' who earn money by effectively stealing other people's property. I can see the law having a detrimental impact for a lot of people, but in the longer term it is an opportunity for content providers such as YouTube to clean up their act and to ensure that they are not being used as convenient tools for people who don't care a jot about copyright law.
I wouldn't say I was missing the point as such, but maybe not fully appreciating the ramifications.
I've already bought a MotoGP videopass once, but the likes of NASCAR and Indycar would need to offer an equally high quality service (no missing races or limited content for starters) for me to consider doing the same with them.
I suppose the proles in France do have a sort of national hobby of protest. Yet perhaps France is splitting into opposing camps of downtrodden populists and elite globalists? Unlike the roughly 50/50 split in other western democracies, maybe the split in France is more lopsided? Even so it does not as yet seem to manifest in voting.
If polls are to be believed, Macron's popularity is stunningly low. These riots always contain an element of rioting just for the fun of rioting so who knows how much of the unrest is organic and how much is young men that still have some testosterone left, blowing off some steam by burning down their own city or stealing trinkets. I do find it ironic that they seem to be rioting for a relatively small increase in petrol tax when they are already paying more than double what might be considered "free market" prices. I was looking at something recently that showed they pay more in fuel taxes in the Netherlands than I pay for my entire litre of fuel and our prices in Canada are 15-20% higher than just across the bridge last time I checked. They probably should have been rioting there 40 years ago.
I wonder where our French friends got the idea of violent protest from.
