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Almondsetatlast Friday at 5:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

He contradicts himself in the span of a single sentence. How is it possible that this was done solely by Italy (with concerns from the rest of the EU) and yet this is the work of a cabal of European media elites? If this were true, why isn't the entire EU involved?


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wmflast Friday at 6:21 PM

Italy and Spain are doing the same thing and there may be other EU countries being controlled by football leagues that I haven't heard of.

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ben_wlast Friday at 5:40 PM

That's not really a self-contradiction; if we pretend the USA's copyright lobby had made California pass a similar law… well, that might not work, I have no idea if that would be unconstitutional inter-state trade restriction or something in the USA, but for the sake of showing why it's not a self-contradiction can we pretend?

If the US media elites had convinced California to do that, they'd be a "shadowy cabal of [US] media elites", even if there was opposition from the rest of the USA.

Again, don't read too much into if this would actually work in the USA, the EU is not the USA, this isn't that kind of comment.

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