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This is essentially a shadow-ban on the entire NSFW blogging community.
If you run a NSFW blog, you will soon notice that your audience has dropped substantially. You cannot prevent this from happening, but if you prepare your followers for the forced “safe-mode” change, you can reduce the impact.
Since it’s Pride tomorrow, please take time to remember that one of the most (if not just simply the most) famous writers and artists Finland has ever had, Tove Jansson, was openly in a relationship with a woman for 40 years.
It is hard to say if Tove was a lesbian or bisexual, as the modern idea to divide between them was not as strong and bisexuality was, and still is, relatively unknown concept for many people. But Tove both had many love affairs with men and also did identify herself as someone who “walks the left side of the river” as her artist circles used to call relationships between women. Once she thought of herself as “not fully lesbian”, but by the time she met her partner she seemed to have settled on dating women.
No matter what identities or labels Tove Jansson might have used in modern terms, all Moomin fans and Finnish LGBT+ people should celebrate her open and bold approach towards her love life during a time when homosexual relationships were illegal or classified as a mental illness.
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.
I know this isn’t my usual content but THERE WILL BE NONE OF MY USUAL CONTENT IN THE FUTURE IF THIS GOES THROUGH SO PLEASE PLEASE PAY ATTENTION EVERYONE. Article 13 already made it through the first vote and now they’re taking it to the eu parliament. Everybody make some noise so the MEPs know how to vote in our interest!!
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