I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH
Everybody on the internet needs to take a moment to put all our stupid political squabbles and shit behind and come together to stop this bullshit. This is SCARY FUCKING STUFF, and if you like consuming things like fanmade content or parodies or any kind of independent news, then it affects YOU.
Yesterday Article 13(and 11) were passed in the first round. PLease go here if you are european, you can send twitter, email messages and call your country’s representatives. Hell, if your american just pick a country and messages these people to help us out.
Also people from all over the world can sign this petition https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet/psf/share?utm_medium=email&utm_source=recruit_notification_v2&utm_campaign=triggered&j=319115&sfmc_sub=727113627&l=32_HTML&u=57423139&mid=7233052&jb=761011
Don’t let European fans get kicked out of Tumblr, Ao3, deviantart and any other fandom social media platform and please help us prevent the government from literally knowing everything we do. This goes way beyond paying for YT, this effects everything from Europeans being able to make their own content to seeing that of others. Not to mention the tremendous breach in privacy.
As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.
The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive.
Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down.
Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.
Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.
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This doesn’t just affect Europe. The content creators you love are going to be in hot water for sharing their art and writing with you online. Any and all content that doesn’t belong to us will be filtered. Even memes are at risk, as the person who took the original photo may want to file complaints against any platform that allows it to be used without permission. But it goes even further than that.
Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf, Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:
“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.
But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”
Here is the original Article 13. It’s even scarier. / Link 2
Here is how to contact your MEPs.
Here is a full list of everything that will be affected.
sunt eu
un… haiduc???
dont you sick fucks make me relive this
sunt eu
PICASSO
ti-am dat beep
si sunt voinic
Dar sa stii nu-ti cer nimic😂😂😂
VREI SA PLECI DAR
Nu mă, nu mă ieei
NU MĂ, NU MĂ IEI
nu mă, nu mă, nu mă iei
I have no idea what happened here
Lucky bastard. It’s stuck in my head now
my attention span as a 10 year old: *reads the Lord of the Rings trilogy in like two sittings*
my attention span now: *checks internet every 10 minutes during important task, opens new tab of same site I’m already browsing and got tired of*
dkafterdark
aiimeriic
And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
