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Line would be drawn at operating a distribution business for profit. That wouldn't prevent you from putting your own stuff on your own website.

Other ideas in this vein include things like requiring non-discrimantory licensing agreements (no "netflix" only licenses)




So now no content producer is ever allowed to sell thier own content on thier own website?


That's correct. You have it nailed down. Any regulations that can be conceptualized are exactly what you say they are. We decided to make child labor illegal so now there are no children working on family farms, no children working in their family stores, and everyone under 18 is not allowed to work at all. We mandated safety in workplaces so now every person has to wear a respirator and a hard hat even in office jobs. Your obviously completely honest arguments are completely right and there is no room at all for anything but the most extreme possible position.


I am still waiting where do you draw the line and tell someone that they can’t sell the content that they produce on thier own website?


You got an answer two comments up that you ignored.


You didn’t come up with concrete guidelines for when the content creator should not be allowed to sell content on their own site. Are we also going to block foreign content owners from selling their content to US citizens?

You haven’t thought through the consequences of giving the government more power in limiting what people can do on the web.




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