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Watching HiveWatchers
And with that I introduce a new beat, featuring firsthand activist-journalism, to what up until now had been mostly a news roundup, or rundown, or...quips. Something.
Activist journalists are usually more activist than journalist so, yes, a lot of my inquiry will reflect my personal and long running skepticism about HiveWatchers and its predecessors. But I also acknowledge there's an awful lot that I still don't know and that I'm only just now getting around to asking.
To kick off, I'll just point to this piece I posted yesterday explaining some of my personal HiveWatchers story and showcasing a bit of what I learned in an early expedition down the rabbit hole of the HiveWatchers DHF Proposal and its comments:
Impressions and Concerns Regarding HiveWatchers
- What HiveWatchers calls an appeal really isn't.
- HiveWatchers judges unilaterally without confronting the accused.
- There's a noticeable amount of intemperate language in and around HiveWatchers' community.
Do these points remind you of problems with any other social media platforms? They do for me.
Nothing turns the armchair critic into a vocal critic faster than becoming the target of criticism from the subject of his criticism.
Hm. I thought that'd be pithier when I heard it my head.
Ya know what? I'm going with it.
Here's a quote from Cory Doctorow that explains why. It speaks to one of the things that HiveWatchers and the community around it have wrong about originality, IP and the work of ideas:
Copyright does not protect the fruits of your hard work. It just doesn’t. No matter what you’ve heard, the legal basis for copyright — in US law and in international treaties — is to protect creativity, not effort.
If you labor for five years to create a faithful catalog of all the houses in a city or all the books in a library, with the goal of creating as faithful, logical and linear resource as possible, copyright holds no protection for you.
On the other hand, if you dash off a haiku in five seconds, copyright will reward you with the exclusive right to reproduce, display and adapt your work, for your entire lifetime and 70 years beyond.
Copyright rewards creativity, not effort.
The moral basis too for plagiarism as an evil in contrast to the ideal of originality has its roots in the same 18th century intellectual movements that stuck the copyright clause into the Constitution of the United States. That's why activity like selection, compilation and transformation are valued.
And that's why some, perhaps many, of HiveWatchers condemnations are misplaced.
Anyway, that's about all I've got for today. I promise I'll get better at this. I only just decided to be a journalist like 10 minutes ago.
On to the roundup! I often rewrite the summaries in these rundowns drawing inspiration from the original copy. Today I've intentionally left all the blurbs from sources untouched to make a point: This isn't stealing the work of the original y copywriters. It's making use of it.
Those copywriters are employed by publishers so that it will be used. For this. If many works like this one didn't rely on that copy there'd be no reason to employ those copywriters. Using their work isn't stealing from them. It's supporting their livelihood.
Trading and Business
T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50 Million Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’
A 21-year-old American said he used an unprotected router to access millions of customer records in the mobile carrier’s latest breach.
Family of Taliban Hostage Mark Frerichs Urge Biden to Make Deal for His Freedom
State Department says efforts to return Illinois-born civil engineer ‘ongoing’; Taliban have said they would trade for imprisoned drug lord.
Lordstown Motors Names Former Icahn Executive as CEO
Daniel Ninivaggi has joined the electric-truck startup as chief executive and a member of the board.
World’s Largest Chip Maker to Raise Prices, Threatening Costlier Electronics
TSMC to increase prices of most advanced chips by roughly 10%; less advanced chips will cost about 20% more.
U.S. Allies Halt Afghanistan Evacuations, Warn of Growing Threat From Islamic State
European countries say they can’t airlift citizens, Afghans to safety because U.S. forces need to prepare for withdrawal.
In Other News
Explosion outside Kabul airport, casualties unclear, Pentagon says
There has been an explosion outside the Kabul airport, the Pentagon press secretary said on Thursday, adding that it was unclear whether there were casualties amid the large evacuation effort in Afghanistan's capital.
Sanders not ruling out trips to Manchin, Sinema home states to pitch spending plans
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he's open to paying visits to Sen. J...
Pentagon confirms explosion near Kabul airport
An explosion was reported Thursday at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, the Department of Defens...
Pace drops but US evacuates another 13,400 from Afghanistan
Roughly 13,400 people were evacuated from Afghanistan between early Wednesday morning and early T...
U.S. second-quarter economic growth revised slightly higher; weekly jobless claims rise
The U.S. economy grew a bit faster than initially thought in the second quarter, lifting the level of gross domestic product above its pre-pandemic peak, as massive fiscal stimulus and vaccinations against COVID-19 boosted spending.
Entertainment & Tech
Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming (2020)
Simulator of digging a tunnel through the earth
There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”
Why rent control isn’t working in Sweden
Young people are struggling to afford city living, and even the Swedes can't crack the problem.
And also this...
Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #9
Photo credit: Jeremy Bishop / Unsplash
See, that's the interesting point that a lot of armchair lawyers don't actually know. Copyright, in fact, entitles you to use other peoples work. Copyright literally means "Right to Copy." but there are rules attached to that, the main ones being accreditation and ownership. For me, you can quote someone's work all day long so long as it is clear that's what you are doing with fully-functioning links to where that source material is located and who it belongs to. I'm not in the slightest receptive to the argument "We'll in other countries it's acceptable to....." The vast majority abide by the "No plagiarism" stance, and so should everyone else.
If someone (Maybe yourself) releases a post made up of purely Hyperlinks to whatever, let's say News Stories for argument's sake, I would call that low quality because basically, all the author has done is copy those links from an RSS Reader and pasted them into the post. I'm not sure even commenting on those feeds within the post is of any great value either? It kind of reminds me of those scumbags on Youtube who do those "Reaction to....." videos whereby they take someone else's Youtube video and just act like a dick while watching it, pretending they've never seen it before.
So I would have to say this is probably a low-quality post which leaves it up to the community to decide if it is of value or not by the power of voting. I wouldn't say it was plagiarism as you've given the sources, which in turn means this post does not fall under Hivewatchers (Self-appointed) remit IMO. It's a community matter.
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