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EU votes on update to copyright laws on June 20th (Article 11 and 13 approved, pending final vote)
- Thread starter Nokterian
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Because you can't escape the world that is informed by it's use of the internet by going offline.
I almost feel like this, then I remember that the British government is just as bad, porn ban anyone?
I'm fine with this, fuck internet "culture" which was created by the same monsters we are already fighting.
Just like the same kind of internet culture that we are posting as a part of right now?
Do we ban making cardboardb signs because the alt right uses signs?
It's not even the same, get out of here with that whataboutism.
Ok, so I'll stop with analogies. Why should we ban something that everyone uses/is a part of but a small group uses negatively?
You can't just scream "whataboutism" and completely ignore the actual point of what I'm bringing up.
Reminds me of SOPA back in the day. Everyone except the mega media conglomerates thought it was a terrible idea and eventually it went down in flames. We did it before, we'll do it again.
A google search and being around since 2004.
I dunno why shouldn't we give soapboxes to fascists?
Easy, it empowers them.
So much to cheer about this, considering that the UK has the most restrictive approach to internet, between the porn ban, the lack of understanding of what encryption is... but Brexit is better amirite.
So you know that the people making memes in 2004 are monsters in 2018? How?
By following lines of logic and the last decade of politics.
Edit: case in point milo.
That same "soapbox" is the one you're using right now to complain about them.
You are part of the wide and all encompassing "internet culture" whether you like it or not. Taliban use it. Liberals use it. Corporations use it. Conservatives use it. Communists use it. Anarchists use it. Your friends and family use it.
So, just making shit up.
Good luck convincing people that they should stop posting funny images and videos online because, uh, guys in 2004 posted memes and now they're monsters.
No actually my soapbox says human rights and no fascists on it.
What does yours say?
Also just because everyone uses it, doesn't mean it's a good idea to not regulate it, or censor things that consistently help our enemies or lower the level of discourse to truncated simplicity and whataboutisms... like you are doing.
So yeah fuck memes, 99% aren't even funny and there were ways of telling jokes before that didn't require you to live in 4chans basement.
They curated an entire culture that has gone on to greatly influence the youth, and carry on the torches of white supremacy and fascism, 4chans lead mascot is pedobear, a bear that goes around molesting children.
Many of the memes we have today come from those same people. So yeah, no just because some shitheads created something that the pop culture zeitgeist adopted doesn't mean shit, it's still something that has done more harm than good to society.
This is a fluff bill
How could you define what is a meme? Are viral daytime tv videos memes? What about when it's a corporate viral moment? Are those allowed?
Not every fucking site is Youtube, how could they even be aware of all the content they have coming in.
How the hell can you enforce this? You get tickets for uploading content with IP included?
Even if the shit passes, everything is still the same cuz they can't even get the shit off the ground
How could you define what is a meme? Are viral daytime tv videos memes? What about when it's a corporate viral moment? Are those allowed?
Not every fucking site is Youtube, how could they even be aware of all the content they have coming in.
How the hell can you enforce this? You get tickets for uploading content with IP included?
Even if the shit passes, everything is still the same cuz they can't even get the shit off the ground
The UK, while it is still in, actually voted for this. So this is going to hit them regardless, maybe in an even worse form.
Umm if I'm reading this right this sounds like it could be fascistic in and of itself...
Well guess it's interesting to know the EU also has the same type of conglomerates pushing for bad laws.
This is why the idea of banning memes is idiotic as fuck.
You posted a video and others liked it so it spread? Now it's a meme? Sorry, your video is now banned. You say 'on fleek' one day as a joke and others start saying it? Sorry, that's a meme and you're going off to the gulag if we catch you saying memes, dawg. You posted a picture and you put some text underneath it to express something? Uh, meme somehow so banned.
Shit makes no sense and it's downright scary that people think something like this is a good idea.
The topic title is really dragging the discussion down. It's about copyrighted material, not banning all memes. It's not specifically about memes at all.
I'll never not love this dude's 1998 short sleeved button down plaid shirt and Sugar Ray hair cut.
"Racists use baseball bats to beat black people. Let's ban baseball!"
This was already posted and mocked for being scaremongering. Funny how a simple title change can make half the posters suddenly believe it.
Modern copyright law is a disease that needs to be utterly destroyed. It is completely divorced from its original purpose and only exists to enrich mega corporations, ruin lives, and destroy the entire concept of the public domain.
No but we should probably stop selling the brands of milk that are made by nazi farmers
How would this affect discussion boards? I understand the implication there, but outside meaning you couldn't post copyright images, would it have a significant impact on ERA or something like Discord?
What was the original title
What was the original title
Hrm.. seems to me like EU wants to go the way of China internet. Perhaps it's for the best. Let EU have their walled garden and the rest of us the free wild Internet.
With the end of net neutrality, America's 'free and wild' internet is in similar danger, if not worse so. So the rest of people with free and wild internet is going to be very, very small if the EU enact this