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US government scheme to promote propaganda

jeudi 13 juillet 2017 à 02:00

The US government had a scheme to promote the confused concept of "intellectual property" by arranging a staged conversation on Twitter. The government would post, and various entities with an interest in spreading confusion would "respond". The government proposal called it a "fake Twitter feud".

Whatever they say using the term "intellectual property", it spreads a gravely misleading idea about real laws: the idea that they fit that term.

That term was chosen as propaganda in the 1960s and pushed hard starting in the 1970s. Law schools didn't use it much until 1990.

I refuse to use it, and so can you.