I don’t want to disappear without a forewarning.

allesiathehedge:

luleiya:

unconqueredcats:

askshivanulegacy:

lctor:

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.

Europe is facing a huge problem, and unlike with Net Neutrality, the world doesn’t seem to care. 

Great, more scare tactics.

Or are they????

I sure as heck don’t know anymore.  Would be nice if someone got the story straight, especially if you want other people to help spread the word.

Then again, I guess we can just wait and see; it’s only a few more days. 

Okay. I have been looking into this. Several times. And posted about it a few times so never fear I’m here to sort things out for you.

An altright smeghead have been collecting petitions for some other shit. And he is also a shithead ontop of being a smeghead. This has caused notable confusion.

It’s real. -Exactly- how bad it is hard to tell since it relies on companies doing stuff in response. But article 13 is essentially to scan for copyright content on things being uploaded. Meaning that something like tumblr would have to scan pictures I upload to a post for copyrighted content. And block it. And I’m sure you know just how good youtube’s similar function is and Tumblr’s track record is in implementing things just in general.

Article eleven would put a tax on links. Say I linked a newspaper article on tumblr or facebook about danish pastires. Tumblr or facebook would have to pay the newpaper a fee for lost revenue. As you can imagine this gets kindof complicated when you got a million people posting shit everyday from hundred different papers. 

Here is also from another post on the same subject with the aforementioned alt right smeghead started this confusion with. Complete with some news sources covering it.

“Okay. Fuck the EDL. Fuck Think Critically (god that person is such an absolute tool). Fuck the right.Maybe this will help then. 

Here’s the BBC reporting:

’Disastrous’ copyright bill vote approved
Copyright law could put end to net memes

Here is Ars Technica (A computer science enthusiast site with a long record of factual reporting)

Europe advances copyright law that could filter the Internet
Here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organisation that normally only works in the US advocating an open internet and net neutrality.

The EU’s Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even (Especially!) Wikipedia

This is Julia Reda, leader of the German Pirate Party in the european parliament and vocal supporter of Net Neutrality and open internet (the main cause of the pirate party)

https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/

This is CNN (mostly covering article 11)

Europe is one step closer to passing new copyright legislation that has been criticized by major tech companies and internet pioneers.

This is ABSOLUTELY a real thing. But Think Critically and the far right are hijacking it. Their petitions are really bad. I have no idea how people think that the persons above would read article 13 to do dick about stopping fake news. 13 is about scanning for copyrighted works and make sure that it doesn’t get uploaded. 11 would make facebook and google have to pay the newspapers for the information they have on them.Seriously check out Julia Reda. This is is still real and despite that the first thing I linked says it was approved doesn’t mean it’s over. But you should maybe consider finding other petitions than the shit Think Critically shits out.”

I have no words…

First GDPR then this? lol…

Okay… I’m all ready for upcoming shits! I just hope that it was nothing but some manipulative tactics that would scare us to hell, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens. 😀