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Author criticizes modern corporate censorship as 'semantic sewage'

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The author criticizes the evolution of censorship from state-enforced song ownership in the 1990s under Clinton and Gore's Digital Millennium Copyright Act to a modern form of "semantic sewage" produced by corporate entities. This new form of censorship, enabled by corporate power and subsidized by public funds, allegedly attacks epistemology itself by diluting reality and meaning. AI

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Author criticizes modern corporate censorship as 'semantic sewage'

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    In the 1990s, during the Clinton/Gore push for the awful Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the shift was from state violence enforcing who could SING a song to

    In the 1990s, during the Clinton/Gore push for the awful Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the shift was from state violence enforcing who could SING a song to state violence enforcing who could OWN a song. Gulag-style state censorship—so last millennium!—mutated into corporate m…

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