Is it known whether this popup appears only in specific geographic regions, or is it worldwide?

This bug must've been older than millions of Firefox users.

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Swartz co-owned reddit for around 1 year, 2006-2007. His influence has overall probably been insignificant.

Or maybe classical music? I’m not a lawyer, but just think of what music you can share where the artist or record label isn’t going to sue you.

Classical isn't necessarily non-suable. You can share the sheet music Beethoven wrote, since he's been dead for a long time and his work is in public domain, but each new performance and recording of a given composition is also copyrighted by the musicians(s), since they have invested creative effort into its realisation.

Not that you'd be remotely likely to get fined either way, unless the publishing label is very prestigeous, Warner Classics or maybe Deutsche Grammophon (though even then if you're outside of US/UK or Germany I don't think they'd care).

Maybe they're discussing which service is best to rip new films/series from.

Elon didn’t say he would charge all the X/Twitter users.

What do you mean by that? He didn't say he was definitely going to do so right now, but he proposed it with quite some degree of seriousness. I don't intend to watch the whole video with Netanyahu to make sure what he said exactly, but all the articles I've seen are too detailed and explicit for it to be just an aside that the media blew out of proportion.

Well, I may be technologically semi-literate and I may have felt a bit dizzy when I saw actual code in your comment, but I sure as hell will find a way to put it to use, no matter the cost.

You're terrific, man. No idea what else to say.

Just eat everything so you don't have to put it back.

Regarding the analogy:

1. it's not one but multiple connected rooms

2. the room with people in red shirts has suddenly decided to connect with the rooms with the less numerous blue and green shirts

3. it's not "someone" in a blue shirt, it's a significant number of people in blue shirts who think the red ones should simply return to their own room that they were perfectly happy with until now

We were invited to join the discussion

https://lemm.ee/post/4543536

Where exactly do you see the invitation? I see "I am very interested to hear thoughts and responses from our own users."

It certainly wouldn't be brigading if the ratio of hexbear comments was proportional to its size. But I haven't seen many lemmy.world comments there, for example, and they saw the thread in their feeds just as much as you did.

That’s how federation works, is it not?

Federation works by connecting various instances with different goals and different userbases. Those instances need a space to discuss those goals among themselves, where the admins can communicate with the users, etc. Some external engagement is to be expected, but one specific instance creating 3x more comments than all the others taken together (including the instance whose policy is supposed to be discussed) should, uh, raise an eyebrow.

They even claimed that in the lawsuit, that IA damaged their sales even though, exactly as you say, they had record sales in 2020 due to the lockdowns.

Keep moving those goalposts, daddy. 🥵 First you claim marxist literature is never purchased by the libraries, which could be easily disproved just by clicking the link I gave you. Then you imply they don't stock enough, even though according to the catalogue, as I've already said, they "hold 168 book by or about Karl Marx", including multiple copies of the same book (the abovementioned CotGP has 4 copies, an abridged edition of Capital has 49 copies, etc., not even getting into counting the marxist literature not written by Marx).

But it appears you expect the American public library system to lead the communist revolution, so discussing even banal data such as how many books are stocked by a library is probably pointless.

mysteriously never purchased

The catalogue I linked literally shows they have a 2023 edition of "Critique of the Gotha Program", in the very first row of the results.

Realistically, there are no banned books today, outside of stuff like Turner Diaries and Mein Kampf and terrorist guides. And even those (outside of terrorist guides) are usually just semi-banned, i.e. Amazon and most reasonable booksellers and libraries won't stock them, but you can buy them by other means and it's probably not illegal.

So I have no idea what's your point here. The "liberals" who promote reading "banned books" refer to stuff like small school libraries not stocking whatever the American media and Twitter decided to wreak hysteria about this season.

Either way, in reality New York Public Library holds 168 book by or about Karl Marx.

If Marxism is looking to dismantle the way contemporary society and its institutions, why would the institutions stock books on Marxism?