Right, patents are a whole separate thing. I added a clarification above that the 15 years/life is for copyright. The way I did patents is that corporations are ineligible for patents, and individuals get them for 5 years.

As long as labor is necessary, some form of market economy is likely to crop up, and as long as there’s some form of market economy I’m hesitant to limit the ability for individual creators to make a living in said market economy, so I’m not sure I’d personally go for such a large carve-out from patent protections.

I actually started writing up a a new constitution a while ago as a sort of thought experiment. It’s not finished yet but some of the highlights thus far include:

• A unicameral congress, with uncapped membership
• A right to privacy, free education, internet, and government transparency
• Freedom from religion clauses
• Constitutionally limited intellectual property: 15 years for corporations, life for individuals.
• Uncapped supreme court, 2 appointments per presidential term
• Score voting for the president
• Proportional representation for congress
• No term limits

its embarrassing

Less embarrassing than defending authoritarian colonialist empires.

Look, capitalism, etc. are awful, but that doesn’t excuse defending authoritarian regimes. It is perfectly possible improve the lives of everyone without atrocities, and defending the people who commit those atrocities severely damages efforts to actually improve society.

double genocide myth

Genocide denial is not the winning move you think it is. Edit: More importantly I never said anything about genocide, though since you brought it up, the soviets did in fact commit genocide, see: Holodomor. This in no way dilutes or mitigates the Nazis’ genocide of Jews, etc. in the Holocaust.

Equating communists to fascists was used to excuse complicity in the holocaust, it isnt fucking cool.

Good thing I’m not doing either of those then! I’m equating tankies to fascists, which is not only cool, but more importantly it’s correct.

On the one hand defederating from an instance based on their ideology is probably not the best precedent to set,

On the other, they’re tankies who’ve ate up the state capitalist and red fascist propaganda hook, line, and sinker and are trying to associate themselves with leftism, making the rest of us look bad. (If I were more conspiracy minded I’d say that this is an intentional attempt to discredit leftist politics.) So really I think it balances out. Personally I’d rather users be able to block whole instances, instead of having admins make that decision, but seeing as that’s not available this is the next best thing.

This strikes me as weird and unnecessarily convoluted. IMO the best solution would be to limit corporate held copyrights to 10 years after first publication or 15 years after creation, whichever is sooner, and limit individually held copyrights to the life of the creator. After that’s up, the work becomes public domain, and people can freely post it without repercussions, meaning the masses will handle archival and distribution essentially without prompting. Simple, with very few loopholes as far as I can see.