I Disagree With Trump On Copyright Enforcement
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Expansion of Powers

First, copyright enforcement can generally require the expansion of government in order to enforce copyright. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The mechanism to copyright enforcement either is already or can become a gateway or slippery slope towards fascism, authoritarianism, communism, etc. Some of the dangers in this can be seen already while others are potential risks.

Centralization of Powers

Secondly, copyright enforcement can generally centralize the controlling aspects to free markets; it can increase centralization as it requires more and more to be filtered through the central heads of federal and global governments, etc, either in actuality already or potentially at least.

Redefining the Roles of Powers

Thirdly, copyright enforcement can be too subjective depending on the procedures, the judges, the trials, the rulings, the enforcement, etc, which can become too counterproductive in some cases or too many cases potentially, long-term speaking. One example can be seen in Disney. Other examples can be seen within corporatism, monopolies, fascism, cronyism, tech cartels, banking cartels, educational cartels, entertainment cartels, main stream media cartels, crime cartels, trafficking cartels, science cartels, corporate cartels, religious cartels, military cartels, governmental cartels, environmental cartels, trading cartels, etc. Bad people want you to connect your brain to Brain Phones, to the Brain Net, because then they could copyright thoughts and then punish us for thinking Hate Thoughts and Copyrighted Thoughts, etc.

Information Warfare

Some of the problems are related to information wars. Some of this can become too subjective, relative, in that the powers that be define reality and in turn end up redefining words, terms, definitions, vocabulary, ideas, concepts, morality, culture, history, and reality itself. We can see this already. I don't have time to talk about all of that right now apart from simply saying copyright can be used as an excuse in the same way governments uses hate speech, etc, as their excuse to limit free speech, etc. I don't even have time to talk about how they try to ban memes, Fair Use, etc. More on some of these things later. To be continued.

Balancing the Powers

In conclusion, we live in a world with copyright. I'm only trying to push back the other way in order to limit the roles of centralized governments. See, for thousands of years, governments have increased from time to time. That is natural. The problem in world history is generally seen in tyrannies when governments would become too big. So, I'm simply trying to encourage balance. I'm not encouraging hypothetical anarchy which cannot happen apart from some aspects of tribalism, etc. I'm always pushing back the other way. Keep in mind, that there are already too many people trying to increase the power that governments have. Copyright is simply one of the excuses that government can have to grow in order to keep people safe from intellectual property theft. Generally, many people have given up freedoms in exchange for alleged safety, security, protection, from centralized governments.

Freedoms vs Protection

Sadly, they end up losing freedoms and protection in the same sense that slaves and prisoners do. It's better when individuals, families, churches, friends, groups, companies, and local communities do their best to keep each other safe within those communities, those tribes (tribalism), as opposed to relying too much on state, federal, and international governments to do what humans have generally done for themselves for thousands of years.

Our Jobs vs Their Jobs

Federal governments can only do the jobs that we the people should be doing as long as they are not too corrupt. So, our job is threefold. First, we should always try to help each other out on the local level. Second, we should always try to limit federal governments from doing what we are suppose to be doing on the local level. Third, we should always try to confront governments to hold them accountable, transparent, when they do go too far as they often do.

Decentralization vs Centralization

Copyright should be enforced through decentralized systems as opposed to centralized systems. I'm for attempts at decentralized blockchain systems, technology, etc, that can attempt to keep track of copyrights and the decision protocol in the attempt at enforcing copyrights, etc, the decision process, the decision making; but only to the extent that such systems do not become required by law.

Social Credit Scores

For example, it is risky to implement Chinese Social Credit Scores that are preventing Chinese people from travel by bus, train, plane, as in public transportation, etc, in China in 2019 for example. A copyright system could penalize an innocent person and then punish them from travel, from doing banking, etc.

Centralization vs Decentralization

Let the free markets sort things out. If a guy is clearly stealing your copyright, your ideas, etc, then expose him. Make videos. We the people can decide not to buy his stuff. We could give him a bad name. Because he did a bad thing, that is if enough people think he is guilty enough. But we should decentralize those decisions. We should not violate his private property rights and trespass onto his land. We should not throw the man in jail.

Peer Pressure

We should simply follow him and tell people that he is a fake. Tell people he is a scam. Tell people that he stole the ideas from you or whoever he stole them from. You can also try to compete with him at the same time. That is what the free market is all about. Because life is complex. It is not that simple. It is up to us what kind of future we want.

Interfering With Free Markets

One of the biggest issues is that government is always coming up with excuses for interfering with the free markets. That is why we only have limited aspects to free markets. Since at least the 1930's America has had excessive amounts of fascism, cronyism, corporatism, etc. All of these things are not products of free markets but rather symptoms and results from what governments did in their attempts at taking over the world more and more in a variety of ways. The control freaks divide and conquer. They utilize long-term game plans. Some of it can be seen in books from the 1800's. They make enslavement appear to be a good thing. They create problems and then come in to save people from those problems that they created in the first place. They're really good at selling their lies to people. So, it is enticing. It looks good at face value. But don't judge a book by its cover.

Our Future

Let's make it a kind of future where people are encouraged to compete in the free market as much as possible as opposed to fearing being sued, going to court, etc.