rights bull$h!t.

we little people will be priced out of access to what is likely the most important tool for civilization.
I intend to study smoke signals to prepare for the future.

Goldman took the photo, someone else tweeted it, and the news organizations embedded a link to the tweet in their coverage

This is a weird case. Sounds like the original photographer was mad because the links went to someone else who tweeted his photo. If the links went to his own web page, or if he had tweeted it and the links went to his tweet, he'd probably be fine. But he ended up not getting any credit. Of course no one knew it was his or if he had his own tweet or page, (I would guess).

Several times I've seen a really cool photo in a tweet and in the replies there will be several news orgs asking if they can use it. The tweeter usually says "Yes! with attribution."

There was one recently of Princes Harry and William with their wife & fiancee, that was taken by a regular person in the crowd. It was the best picture of them taken all day. It ended up being used all over, but I did see many news orgs asking permission. I think the photographer got some advice and eventually made some money on it.

If this holds up as the evident next step in censorship that it appears to be, everybody in the entire world, country by country, should all sue the hell out of the various spy agencies recording and accessing every freaking thing they say and do.

From 2012, an absolute must-read example of great journalism comprehensively showing the depths to which the whole mess has sunk and exactly who's the target - all of us, the people of the world:

(Emphasis mine)
https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

James Bamford Security Date of Publication: 03.15.12.
03.15.12

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

... But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”

For the NSA, overflowing with tens of billions of dollars in post-9/11 budget awards, the cryptanalysis breakthrough came at a time of explosive growth, in size as well as in power. Established as an arm of the Department of Defense following Pearl Harbor, with the primary purpose of preventing another surprise assault, the NSA suffered a series of humiliations in the post-Cold War years. Caught offguard by an escalating series of terrorist attacks—the first World Trade Center bombing, the blowing up of US embassies in East Africa, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, and finally the devastation of 9/11—some began questioning the agency’s very reason for being. In response, the NSA has quietly been reborn. And while there is little indication that its actual effectiveness has improved—after all, despite numerous pieces of evidence and intelligence-gathering opportunities, it missed the near-disastrous attempted attacks by the underwear bomber on a flight to Detroit in 2009 and by the car bomber in Times Square in 2010—there is no doubt that it has transformed itself into the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever created.

In the process—and for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administration—the NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, it’s all being done in secret. To those on the inside, the old adage that NSA stands for Never Say Anything applies more than ever. ...

Elsewhere, it's explained that they needed the room, in order to store the capture of every word and action of every person in every country of the world - billions of them and more coming online or otherwise becoming technologically vulnerable all of the time, to be snooped for posterity - not just regarding the phone and internet but of electronic purchases or anything that can be captured by any technology. This is pathology gone wild.

By 'code' they mean encryption; nobody's anything can be safe or private, it must all be vulnerable to hackers of all kinds so they can snoop around in it and to hell with everyone's security and human rights - TPTB wish to micromanage everyone in the world.

But if an internet user linking to a tweet violates copyright, those linking to, recording and sharing out access to the private communications and personal lives of all people in that manner among foreign spy agencies must also.

Edited to add a letter that didn't go through.