Super Magical Herbo Chimerror @chimerror@beach.city

then NFTs come in and libertarians want to act like their proofs of ownership are inherently meaningful, not realizing that: just as workers do not honor owners' sacred property rights by not simply seizing the means of production but instead acknowledge the coercive power of the state, internet platforms do not honor copyright holders' sacred property rights but instead manage the risk of expensive litigation.

and NFT-holders pose no meaningful threat of expensive litigation.

in the us, the digital millennium copyright act did not make it illegal to share copyrighted works digitally without the copyright holder's permission. that was already illegal.

what it did was make those claims enforceable by shifting liability for such sharing from the uploaders to the operators of internet sites. this essentially obliged those operators to act as copyright police, at least on behalf of any copyright holder large enough to reasonably take them to court.

the owner of a piece of land or a factory, for example, does not need to personally evict persons who come to use that land or factory without his authorization, nor does he need to personally finance their removal. the state provides police, who will employ violence on his behalf, while being funded by taxes collected from the public at large

NFTs actually do a great job of demonstrating something that libertarians in general fail to comprehend, that property is not only a socially agreed upon idea, but it is a social institution that needs a state apparatus to exist.

Dandelion 🍍

"why don't men like astrology? it must be because they're dumb smelly bad people who have never introspected at all in their lives, unlike us women, who are pure individuals in sync with mother nature and blessed"

love that Gender Essentialism But Woke This Time

Ppl really think their mind is a secure Palace of Solitude, when in reality we are fundamentally social beings