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Is Gary North an Economic and Internet Optimist?
by Daily Bell Staff
The Daily Bell
Why Matt Drudge Can Stop Worrying … Matt Drudge appeared on Alex Jones’s Infowars. Here is how he has been quoted. On the future of digital copyright: “I had a Supreme Court justice tell me to my face it’s over for me. Said, ‘Matt, it’s over for you. They’ve got the votes now to enforce copyright law. You’re out of there. They’re gonna make it so headlines–you can’t even use headlines.’ ” “You thought Obamacare was shocking… wait until these copyright laws work their way up, and the Supreme Court decides you cannot have a website with news headlines linking across the board. Then that will end for me … I don’t know why they’ve been successful in pushing everybody into these little ghettos of these Facebooks and these Tweets and these Instagrams–these Instas. This is ghetto. This is corporate. They’re taking your energy. They’re taking your energy and you’re getting nothing in return. Nothing… Ultimately, it’s boring, and the kids are always off to something new. Except for the something new is owned by the same freaking company or financed by the same banking system.” – LewRockwell.com
Dominant Social Theme: The great trade treaties and perfected Western judicial systems will yield the best possible outcome when it comes to the Internet and how it is handled.
Free Market Analysis: Except it won’t. Our favorite economic curmudgeon – Gary North – is back with an insightful debunking of Matt Drudge‘s fears regarding the Internet and the recently agreed-upon TPP trade treaty, which contains a number of bad elements including a loony strengthening of copyright law.
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Source: http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/2015/10/is-gary-north-an-economic-and-internet-optimist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-gary-north-an-economic-and-internet-optimist
