14.12.2016 - 15:11 [ Techdirt ]

Legacy Recording Industry To Trump: Please Tell Tech Companies To Nerd Harder To Censor The Internet

Upon hearing about Trump‘s meeting with the heads of a bunch of top tech companies, the RIAA and a bunch of related recording industry associations (including ASCAP, BMI, A2IM, NMPA, SoundExchange and more… ) have sent a letter to Trump (found via Variety), asking him to force the internet companies to nerd harder to find better ways to censor the internet. This is fairly incredible, seeing as the traditional recording industry wasn‘t exactly a major Trump supporter. For them to now reach out to Trump and urge him to increase censorship of the internet is fairly astounding and sickening.