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The EU just passed Articles 11 and 13.
But not all is lost! It still takes time (about 2 years) until every state has adapted the laws to their own system.
There are European elections soon!
If you are eligible to do so: VOTE
Make sure there are consequences for the representatives who voted for Article 13! Only then, we will have political influence and maybe we are able to stop the laws before they do too much damage!
Every vote counts!
about art13 etc
k so im very annoyed atm. there are a lot of people rightfully freaking out over article 13, and there are way too many ppl who complain that that isn’t necessary, claiming they know what article 13 means. spoiler alarm: they dont. very baltantly so btw.
there’s this german youtuber, he’s studied law, he’s a lawyer, he knows and understands that stuff. he’s made lots of videos explaining article 13 & 12 & 11 to those who’ll watch. his explanations were VERY clear and easy to understand. which is why i actually know what’s going on w art13 and understand what the consequences will probably be. now, i obviously don’t blame anyone for not watching his videos/not knowing german, but i will judge them for claiming to understand things they have no clue about. so yeah, shut up ir learn what youre talking about.
Edit: someone asked for the link so they can watch the videos, i just want to say that i simply forgot to add that here, so yeah. the channel’s called “Kanzlei WBS” just fyi
I'm not giving up.
I will keep fighting.
I will keep trying.
I will make sure this policy ends up about as lasting as New Coke. Maybe lasting even less. Not even a day.
I will fight for as long as it takes.
I'm gonna try to revert SESTA/FOSTA back to some moldy paper written by Helen Lovejoy's Tone Deaf Homophobic cousin gathering dust in some dirty basement.
For LGBT! For NSFW! For SFW! For Straights! For Gays! Lesbians! Trans! Bi People! Blacks! Whites! Natives! Latinos! Asians! Filipinos! Humans! Dogs! Cats! Elephants! Turtles! Tortoises! Robots becoming sentient and humanlike and hopefully becoming friends with mankind instead of evil! Aliens discovering our ways and society! For you. For me. For everyone. I love the internet. I love Tumblr. I want both to be safe from all the bad that comes its way. I want to destroy Aji Pai's Net Neutrality Repeal, Articles 11-13, SESTA/FOSTA, anything and everything trying to harm the internet everyone loves. However you do it, staying on Tumblr, Leaving Tumblr, forming a mob outside Tumblr or Verizon HQ or any political buildings. Whatever. I wish you all the best of luck. Now go, save the day. Any way you can. Go and be the magic that magically undoes all the bad things going on.
Democracy apparently doesn't exist.
George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 14 July 1795
“My dear Sir
I received your favor of yesterday,1 this moment, when I am on the eve of a journey to Virginia.
The opinion which you have given as to its being necessary to submit the new article2 to the Senate being in direct opposition to that of the Secretaries and the Attorney general, has occasioned some embarrassments with me.3 For I always understood it to be the sense of the majority of the Senate, that they were not to pass their judgment upon the new article further than they have done. But as I shall be absent, and Mr Randolph has before him the bringing of this business to a close; I wish you to write to him your ideas,4 if upon mature reflection you shall think differently from the gentlemen around me; or you find the sense of the Senate to be different from what I have been led to expect. I have told Mr Randolph that your sentiments do not agree with those which I received from the Officers of government; and have desired him to revise them. I have also told him, that I have requested the favor of you to write to him on this subject.
Very affectionately I always am Yours
Go: Washington
PS. Notwithstanding one great object of my visit to Mount Vernon is relaxation; yet, to hear from you, the sentimts. entertained of the treaty and in short on any other interesting subject, with which the public mind is occupied would be a considerable gratification. The state of our pecuniary matters in Holland, at this time, is a bar to Mr Adams’s5 leaving that country—but the next best step will be adopted.
Yours as before G W——n”
Washington’s respect and affection for Hamilton is so clear in this letter regarding the Jay Treaty. The issue Washington’s raising had to do whether an amendment to the treaty had to be resubmitted to the Senate to re-ratify before Washington signed it--his cabinet said no, but Hamilton believed it would need to go back to the Senate, an opinion which Washington seemed to give great weight. That Washington signed the letter “Very affectionately” also stands out :)
If I suddenly vanish blame EU.
Fuck article 13.
(BTW I didn’t learn this from matpat(he did remind me, though)I learnt it from Robinkaja, but he did say there was still hope for us)
Not sure if links work again, so posting this without links.
SPREAD THE WORD OR YOU MIGHT USE YOUR FAVORITE CONTENT CREATORS THAT ARE UNDER EU LAWS!
“I know now how the @europarl_EN came to publish an extremely biased video for the #copyright reform. The good news, it doesn't look like the administration deliberately tried to manipulate the public debate. What actually happened is equally worrying, though: #SaveyourInternet https://t.co/PfcfGI5xOM”
Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like...
Article 13: the Copyright Filters. All but the smallest platforms will have to defensively adopt copyright filters that examine everything you post and censor anything judged to be a copyright infringement.
Article 11: Linking to the news using more than one word from the article is prohibited unless you're using a service that bought a license from the news site you want to link to.
Article 12a: No posting your own photos or videos of sports matches.
These all passed. And they aren’t even the whole of it.
A petition you can sign, EVEN IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE EU, against this massive, dangerous problem.
