Why Isn’t Tumblr Freaking Out?!?!
Guys. Article 13 just got passed.
Article 13 just got passed.
Article 13 just got passed!!!!
Article 13 just got passed.
Article 13 just got passed.
Article 13 just got passed!
Article 13 just got passed.
Article 13 just got passed.
I don’t know if I’ve said it enough. So…
ARTICLE 13 JUST GOT PASSED!!!!
I have been on tumblr all morning and haven’t seen one post about it yet! I don’t understand how!
ARTICLE 13 JUST GOT PASSED!!!!
It was a 438 to 226 fucking landslide vote too. (https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved)
They’re voting on it one last time in January 2019, but that’s barely any time to change anything!!!!
You still have time to call your MEPs so PLEASE!!! Do so.
If you’re outside of the EU, sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/axel-voss-save-the-internet-reject-article-13-and-11?recruiter=839558037&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition
If you don’t know what this means, it’s basically then end of how the internet currently is in Europe. Memes? Nope. Youtubers? Bye!
You’d need a license for everything!!!!
And my fellow Americans my be all like, well, what’s the big deal for us? It’s a Europe deal.
No, because the Youtubers there that you love so much? This effects them too! I’m freaking out because Jack, the person who helps my depression go away, may no longer be able to do what he does!
Guys, we need to stop this somehow. Please.
Call your MEPs. Sign petitions. Protest (Peacefully please. Don’t get hurt).
I’m sorry for tagging you guys if you don’t want to be or already know, I just want as many people to know as possible!
I can’t tag everyone, but if you see this, please reblog it. Spread the news. Sign the petition. Call your MEPs. Do what you can to help stop this from passing in January.
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I don’t live in Europe but this needs to be spread
I’m spreading this because this is greatly unsettling to me. I live in europe and really can’t imagine how the future would look like.
I don’t live in Europe but I signed the petition and am signal boosting for all my EU pals. Call your MEPs!
Because they still have to vote for it two more times.. maybe .. that’s why?
All you Americans who are saying “I dont live in europe, but…” You do understand how the internet *works*, right? You *WILL* feel the backlash from this if things go through the way they are going now.
this needs to be spread. article 13 will effect the world.
Hi guys I know you haven’t heard from me in a while, that will change as more figure pics are on the way. :) In other news this crap has got to be stopped! In a nutshell if article 13 is passed in Europe it means that social media sites will be forced to monitor all copyrighted content on their sites and stop any users from uploading or using any of it. Now I’m all for abiding by the law and as a person who has had their copyright infringed upon I get what they are trying to do but they’re doing it the wrong way. The system we have now works, if copyright is infringed be it on YouTube, Facebook etc the system will recognize it anyway and warn you either on your vid details (in the case of YouTube) or a message (in Facebook’s case) that you have uploaded copyrighted material, now with YouTube most copyrighted music you use will be able to be used on your video and the record companies get ad revenue from your vid, which to me is fine, I didn’t create the song it’s merely been used to enhance the video, so the ad revenue thing works fine, however if article 13 passes in January then this by the sounds of things will no longer be the case, to put it bluntly if I’ve got this correct the vid will be taken down for infringing copyright and the same would go for other social media sites for sharing any copyrighted content, this really would be a restriction on creators who use copyrighted material in the fair use way. This really is actually quite horrifying to think about, as it will be blow to the creativity and artistry of many YouTubers not to mention here, yes Tumblr as we know it may cease to exist! Why? Practically every post people put on here is copyrighted but shared for fun be it a pic, a gif or a vid. I mean think of how memes are created, if you create one and then upload it to here or Facebook, even though you’ve created it if you’ve used copyrighted images for it then it will have to be removed unless you can prove it’s your work, which basically 100% of the memes on the net are of copyrighted images so people wouldn’t be able to argue the fact. This is madness really and basically TOTAL censorship, it’s impeaching upon the freedom of each and every user of the net and this won’t just affect Europe it will hit the whole world so yeah this has to be STOPPED!!!