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So the beginning of the end is finally here a dark day for internet freedom. It’s now over, and articles 11 and 13 have passed in the EU parliament. The internet as we know it is about to die. lobbyists have tried in vain for years to bring about draconian copyright reform with sofa, PIPA and actor. But the internet successfully stopped them at every turn. But the forces of evil are nothing if not persistent, and they kept trying until they eventually pushed through immensely destructive new laws that will undermine free speech, online creativity, alternative news media, and even make many internet names impossible. This is very, very bad news. And we’re in serious trouble here. Julia read a post to the following on Twitter dark day for internet freedom. The European Parliament has rubber stamped copyright reform, including article 13 and article 11. MEP refused to even consider amendments. The results of the final vote 348 in favor 274
Against years of campaigning to stop, this has been for nothing. In the end, the EU got what it wants it a means of controlling and censoring the web and the free passage of information and no doubt as a consequence, it also now has a means of scrubbing populist and nationalist movements from the internet, corporate lobbyists and the mainstream media as well as the film, television, music and even video game industry’s also got a big win today. Now any content they own can be removed on their say so even if its usage in a particular work previously fell under fair use. I’m going to include an excerpt now from a previous video I made explaining just how destructive the EU copyright directive is going to be. The first thing to understand is that there are multiple vested interests involved here. I’ll break them down to just three number one, commercial rights and IP copyright holders representing the Film Television and music industry’s number two, the mainstream news media corporations and number three, the European Union number one the film, television and music industry’s have been unhappy with the internet.
Since basically day one, they’ve already failed to clamp down on piracy. They can’t stand the clips of their content, snippets of their music and whole songs can be listened to on YouTube or employed in remix videos very used transformative capacities for commentary, satire and review. The people in those industries were lobbying for the EU copyright directive will be granted complete control over every image, video and song they own. Article 13 of the copyright directive will allow them to detect any material that belongs to them when it’s uploaded to a social network and instantly monetize it or remove it. Fair Use be damned regardless as to whether your use of that material is in a non commercial capacity or not. Content ID matching will be everywhere. As you might imagine, the spreading of memes that make use of a copyrighted image will be impossible. Number two, the mainstream media similarly to the movie music and television industries, the mainstream media wants more of the pie at the expense of the little guy.
They’ll also be able to benefit from article 13 but article 11 will be their biggest coup article 13 is the database filter which requires all social networks to filter every bit of content uploaded to them and cross reference it with material that belongs to commercial rights holders. Article 11 is the link tax. If you’re a small blog or alternative media commentator with your own website, and you link to a news story from a major publication that you’ve used as a source, you’ll have to pay a fee for that and you won’t be able to include snippets of text from other major publications in a fair use capacity either, a license will have to be agreed and therefore only large companies will be able to pay for it. The mainstream media will therefore be able to save itself from its current death spiral by forcing other organizations to pay them in this way, as the mainstream media are heavily funded by large corporations. This will make small up and coming independent alternative news media almost impossible. An attack on the hyperlink is obviously an attack on the very internet itself. All that will be left in US coverage will be the biased globalist corporate media and their propaganda sounds fun, even individual social media users posting links to articles on Facebook, Twitter or any similar social network won’t be able to do that without Facebook and Twitter having to agree to pay these link taxes.
It’s possible the social networks will agree to these fees, but it’s more than likely that they will simply choose to cease operations in the EU entirely, because the costs will become prohibitively expensive. Even small social networks like big shoes gap and minds will be faced with the same fees. So this isn’t the case of the free market will come to the rescue and come up with a solution. The free market will be awfully compromised and unable to properly function. So new solutions will be extremely difficult to develop. Social media tech startups will be unable to grow because the startup costs created by the upload filter and link tax will be exorbitant. Furthermore, another reason that youtube facebook and others will likely have to greatly compromise or terminate their services in the EU is not just the potentially massive link tax fees, but because the article 13 upload filter itself is completely impractical.
The idea that they would have to devise some kind of sophisticated machine learning system boss or algorithm that could trawl through an infinitely large database of material and accurately detect what was original content. And what belonged to a movie or music studio is just ridiculous and the dizzying complexity of implementing such a system would be phenomenal to say nothing about the costs. Finally, number three, the European Union. This is the final beneficiary of the copyright directive, but for different reasons to the other to the EU’s. justification is political. The EU itself is under threat, it no longer wishes for its citizens to be able to freely question its rulings, policies and actions and wishes to operate with complete autonomy. It’s an anti democratic, bureaucratic super state that wishes to answer to no one and looks upon its citizens as a proletariat’s to be ruled and controlled. It knows that for the most part, the predominantly left wing mainstream media is pro EU. It’s the mostly euro skeptic alternative media it wishes to censor for example. It no longer wishes for people to be able to question the migrant crisis which it created, so it introduces hate speech regulation. The problem is that hate speech legislation is difficult to apply and information is very difficult to police.
This is because too many people have the ability to not only access information and alternative sources, but to spread them far and wide across the web. Information is power and the EU knows it. The problem they face is that the hate speech argument is wearing thin the union faces legitimate criticism that it cannot deal with. It needs another means to control the news media narrative and restrict what its citizens can say and see online. So the EU copyright directive will allow the EU to censor the internet by destroying us and it will do so and also under the guise of combating hate speech and what it considers to be fake news. But via the smokescreen of copyright reform 5 million users who protested this directive with petitions as well as advice from leading international technology experts, academics and activists.
They were all ignored when the EU sets of mind on doing something it doesn’t care what the proletariat has to say about it. Even the staunchest pro EU supporter is going to have a hard time justifying their love for the union after this catastrophe. For those of you outside of the EU, make no mistake. This directive is the future blueprint for the internet and corporate lobbyists will seek to exporters across the world. So be prepared. The Internet in the EU is about to surpass China in terms of censorship, and that’s saying something. Here’s what you kips, Gerard baton had to say, against fair copyright and protecting the legitimate rights of authors. But this directive is about promoting the interests of multinational corporations and maximizing their profits. It is also about controlling and shutting down free speech and dissent, not approved of by the media and political establishments, dissenting voices are already being D platforms and D monetize. And this will institutionalize censorship.
You kill any piece and others forced a vote on this directive using the rules and procedures, otherwise it would have gone through on the node last year. mp should take note that the European elections will follow shortly. voters should take note of who voted, which me PS and which parties have voted for this directive, and they should vote against them on the 23rd of May. The European Union and the political and media establishments want to suppress free speech and dissent. If MPs vote for this directive, then they deserve to lose their seats. One thing is for sure this is going to have serious economic consequences for tech startups and entrepreneurs. A lot of businesses are now going to find it impossible to obtain investment or continue their operations in the EU. And at a personal level. I have no idea how I’m going to continue my work, but I’m now seriously going to have to consider leaving Ireland VPN may be useful for a while, but I suspect that the EU will move to ban just like China did recently.
As for how long it takes to implement the copyright directive, I’m not sure. But I’ll say this today, we just watched free speech on the internet sentenced to digital oblivion by the EU. And most people are just busily going about their day completely unaware as to watch just occurred. Look out the window watches, oblivious people walk to and from work, sit in traffic, buy their groceries, collect their kids from school, the average normally is still asleep, and they have no clue what just happened today and what it’s going to mean for the future. But one day when they wake up, and they’re no longer able to do the things online that they once were, they’re going to scratch their heads with confusion and wonder what’s going on here what’s happening, and then when it’s too late, they’ll finally wake up from their slumber it’s just pathetic. My final word for you.