I donât want to disappear without a forewarning.
As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.Â
The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive.Â
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.Â
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.Â
Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.Â
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This doesnât 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 doesnât 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 BakerâŠ) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:
âAs 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. [âŠ] 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.â
Here is the original Article 13. Itâs even scarier. / Link 2Â
Here is how to contact your MEPs.Â
Here is a full list of everything that will be affected.
Europe is facing a huge problem, and unlike with Net Neutrality, the world doesnât seem to care.Â
I posted this in YouTube but I had to post it here America is trying to treat them the same way they treated Bieber when he blew up as well as One Direction. Both of them blew up and America never focused on them as artists but as celebrities that teen girls held on a pedestal and then 2-3 years later they got old and they were never taken seriously as artists. But the thing with our boys is that America isnât what made them big, we already had a pretty strong fandom before last years bbmas and unlike any other person or group that has blown up as a trend in America, BTS and Army have a pretty strong bond. We look out for our boys and we donât keep our mouths shut when someone slanders them. I like to think that weâre one of the most spoiled fandoms. With them our relationship is very much give and take in both ends, they give us fan songs,covers, bts run,bon voyage, constant Twitter updates, and so much more and in return we do our best to help them reach every single one if not most of their goals as artists. Itâs up to us to keep them at the top and to make everyone see that theyâre not just some trend that theyâll get bored of in the next five minutes. Yes they have a lot of fans but theyâre so much more than that. We donât see them as just some pretty faces with abs and legs but as serious artists that have so much to offer the worldâŠ
So anyways, Min Yoongi wasnât doing the âgang signâ yâall think about. the sign he did with his hand all along the BBMAs is called Emeka, and this sign means; love, peace and unity.
Itâs a sign you can use when you see a fight outside, itâs a sign you can use when youâre down the street in a Peace parade and also if you want to calm a crowd.Â
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