Vercel Slams LaLiga Piracy Blocks as "Unaccountable Internet Censorship"

Vercel Slams LaLiga Piracy Blocks as "Unaccountable Internet Censorship" * TorrentFreak

Cloud-based web application platform Vercel is among the latest companies to find their servers blocked in Spain due to LaLiga's ongoing IPTV anti-piracy campaign. In a statement, Vercel's CEO and the company's principal engineer slam "indiscriminate" blocking as an "unaccountable form of internet censorship" that has prevented legitimate customers from conducting their daily business.

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Vercel Slams LaLiga Piracy Blocks as “Unaccountable Internet Censorship”

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Here’s the CEO of Vercel kissing Trump’s ass.
Maybe he can ask daddy Trump to help fix things (actually, Trump would probably revoke his citizenship and deport him).
- I honestly don't care. You guys continue to bring up political opinions as some sort of "slam dunk" against supporting something objectively. Supporting trump is obviously a bad move, but blocking internet services in a moronic attempt of "lets stop piracy!!!" is also bad.
  Am I crazy for thinking this? Separating art from the artist, yeah? Seems like Lemmy has completely lost its fucking marbles. This has happened so many times.
  
  No you aren't, the tactic that @orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts And many others are using here is called Tu quoque and it is a logical fallacy.
  
  I chose to stop supporting a fascist wannabe with my wallet and moved all of my sites to Render. Vercel shouldn’t be blocked with such a reckless move and LaLiga is wrong, but I’ve washed my hands of letting the other stuff slide.

If the European authorities don't intervene, this will continue to happen shamelessly. These people's political and media power in Spain is enormous.
- three things that seem to be untouchable In Spain:
  The monarchy
  Football
  Bullfighting.
  
  Bullfighting is opposed by at least half the country's politicians, and fewer and fewer people are watching it. Many areas have taken measures against it, and without further ado.
  The monarchy has great protection in the media, but on the street, most people criticize them without a problem. There's a reason the instructions refuse to hold a referendum outright.
  Football is different. Of course, there are people who criticize it, but a large part of the population is happy for their team, or the president of their team, to manipulate the politician in charge to gain something. Support for other institutions has many more flaws.
  
  Yesterday I was thinking about this, it is like authorities don't give a fuck about piracy until someone local complains about it. Years ago it was about the music but it turns out is wasn't the musicians who were complaining, it was the society in charge of collecting and distributing the money between the copyright holders (sgae), those were corrupt as fuck and after a couple scandals I haven't heard about them much.

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