EU article 11 and 13 copyright law
 

The EU parliament voted yes for this proposal on 20th June, the last chance is for it to go up to plenary session.

https://thenextweb.com/eu/2018/06/19...orm-explained/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/19/1...-upload-filter

The EU is one step closer to banning memes and 'destroying the internet'

https://thenextweb.com/eu/2018/06/20...-tax-what-now/

Surprised nobody is commenting on this :1orglaugh

Me too, it should be high up on the list. I also didn't create a click bait title. Shame on me.

I'll comment...

The EU will absolutely kill the internet if they pass this.

Any image that even contains a copyrighted item will be cause for damages.

Good luck letting anyone upload any photo or video. Imagine instagram or snapchat where every frame of every photo or video has to be reviewed, and with 100% accuracy, the reviewer has to decide if anything within the image contains a copyrighted item (such as a painting in the background).

Every single web site will be closed.

In reality, all web sites will have to block every European country, so the Internet will close to the EU.

Fucking stupid morons who don't understand tech trying to pass laws.

But, but the tubes...........

Thank you, totalitarian EU! 1984 is happening right under our noses. Democracy is shut down by the EU. Freedom of speech is shut down. And they actually operate a ministry of truth. Oh the EU is so great.

Thommy & Stefan who call everyone and their mom a fascist, somehow manage to support this very scary dictatorial fascist institution. Oh the irony.

Back to 90's early 2000's
All adult sites will be in text style again

at least you aren't over reacting...

They won't be able to enforce this.

Also, rent servers in China.

In Holland they recently fined a webmaster cause his 'rape' content could harm people. They asked 75.000 euro, had to pay 10.000 euro. The rape theme content wasn't behind an age check and started playing when opening the website. You don't need an age check in Holland, everybody thought. But looks there is a law that protects against extreme content. Never heard about it even not in the period that animalsex wass still legal.

Now the government is making a survey to look what they will do to protect the children and sent an advice to the politicians. This is the first time i hear about a webmaster getting fined for (extreme) content that is legal.

https://www.cvdm.nl/nieuws/commissar...elijke-videos/

In Holland? Just say you are protecting you religious rights to marry a 12 year old, and you'll be fine....the Mullah told you :1orglaugh

i follow direct streams of debates while i work, and i what i just said is more of an understatement than an overreaction, which may surprise you.

About 1% of all debates and facts are shown in the news eventually, and 99% of that 1% is an offtopic soundbyte or slip of the tongue the sheep can laugh at and go on with their day. Which means almost none of the facts, which are mind boggling to say the least, are shared on the news programs on TV.

I was astonished when i first found this out. Like i said, i can give you cold hard facts of the examples i provided if you want. It's like they used a 1984 blueprint - it's really that bad. And none of this fits the news narrative which doesn't thrive on the big picture, but only on the small simplistic sound bytes.

So please let me know which topic you think i was overreacting about, i'll gladly prove you that it isn't an overreaction at all. :thumbsup

Its hard to say if anything is an overreaction... all depends how it's implemented. According to GDPR I can demand any place of business wipe my fingerprints off everything and delete me from security footage...

https://i.imgflip.com/2csv4c.jpg

This is NOT to protect anyone... This is for political censorship and violating our privacy.
They are not fooling anyone with this.

For the record, I'm all about protecting copyrights, and I agree we need more options to do that.

The DEATH of memes and will fuck up social media

Lol.. imagine tubes and file lockers would be responsible for what is uploaded on them.

I support this part of that proposal. :thumbsup

I'll sign up under this situation as being an understatement on the same premises, much of the vital information to make a judgement doesn't reach the masses. It's bad and it's going to get worse before it can turn around, if ever.

By the way i'd love to see a new search engine take up the fight against google, unfortunately that looks like impossible mission.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/europe...copyright-law/

There's a lot of censorship going on already, and it's most of the time absolutely selectively enforced (political), and with this if they double down, well.

I'd like to read a legal take on fair use in the light of this legislation.

Voting took place today with NO

At first I thought great, until I read they're fine tuning it for September.

more: The EU'''s dodgy Article 13 copyright directive has been rejected | WIRED UK

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/arti...right-law.html

That seems to be their usual M.O. - whenever the EU invents another freedom removing, privacy invading or other 1984 4th reich law... No matter who opposes it, whether legally, by vote, or referendum results... They do it anyway just under a different title and moving a few commas. It's such a totalitarian system, it's insane. The EU puppetmasters give zero fucks about laws, democracy, society, stability or human lives.

Julia Reda, a Pirate Party MEP - would you expect someone who is a member of the Pirate Party to protect author's rights? :Oh crap

No different then pawn broker selling stolen goods...." off with thier heads" say 1.

EU are fascist pigs. Death to the EU.

Totally :2 cents:

This is a big deal... Kills memes and reduces public participation in the age of POSTMODERNISM (ie., cultural products interblend - pastiche type cultural works)