Hi guys, I just wanted to call out an inappropriate term I’ve seen used sometimes: Civil Disobedience. It’s not just civil disobedience when you pirate something privately, you need to do it publicly and dare the authorities to do something about it.

So an example here would be to set up a massive leech party and advertise it specifically as civil disobedience. Say all manner of things from all manner of copyright holders would be transmitted, and try and get news coverage. That’s civil disobedience.

Just downloading a movie because you want to watch it is not. OK thanks for your time.

  • Hurculina Drubman@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    refusing to respect the law in private is still civil disobedience. I wouldn’t say that it’s as effective, but it is still civil disobedience.

    like this television tax thing in the uk. if everybody just stops paying it, the system would still fold even if they don’t go out in the streets talking about it.

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      8 months ago

      I feel like this post has devolved into nomenclature. My intent was not to tut tut people for using the wrong word, it was to say that Civil Disobedience is actually quite powerful, and we can use it to enact change at the government level.

      • Hurculina Drubman@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        yeah but that’s not what you said. you tried to correct people’s grammar without bothering to look up the grammar that you were correcting first, so this thread is about grammar because that’s the thread you made