It comes in the shape of sharp suit collars and economic growth.
Seniors will die before they can see the toxic seeds they have sown grow into nooses destined for the necks of their children and grandchildren.
They turn their eyes from the deaths deemed natural disasters, they don’t acknowledge the hands that build the deaths of nations, peoples and cultures.
Every litre of oil is a death certificate. Every barrel is the extinction of a species.
Maintain hope. You can improve your lot and the lots of everyone. Fight. For. It.
Don’t let this apocalypse creep up on you more than it has.
I’m so goddamn mad that oil companies have known climate change is real for decades and did everything to stop people from acting on it. I want to burn their offices down. I want to throw their CEOs into a fucking pit. The world is being destroyed because some filthy rich fucks saw the end coming and figured making money off it was better than saving it. That’s pure evil, plain and simple.
Memes and YouTube videos are *not* in its jurisdiction. Social media sites may *choose* to take down memes en masse, *pinning the blame on* the new policy, but that’s their evil, that’s a pretty common tactic that eurosceptic agents pull. In all likelihood, what will happen is things will get taken down and you’ll have to appeal to the EU *instead of* appealing to YouTube or Facebook or whatever the fuck.
Like. “Loads of people will lose their source of income!” Yeah! The social media giants *already do that to people!* They *already* discriminate arbitrarily and remove shit based on enigmatic algorithms, then take ages to listen to appeals! The EU is pissed at them for *relying on* algorithms that they never disclose! That’s what’s being regulated here!
This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened! It’s just the first time it’s happened to social media! And naturally, the social media companies are paying *a lot* of money to convince their users Article 13 will be the end of the world.
They don’t want to be regulated. They are not acting in good faith.
…come to think of it, who all actually took the time to read it over? To actually pick it apart for themselves, and understand what was really going on with it?
It’s all been one cyclical grapevine. Believing people who said this was a bad thing, spreading that idea in good faith, and not really taking the time to check the source material.
You’ll have to copy and paste this into your browser, but this’ll take you to the full text of Article 13.
“[A]uthors and performers often have a weak bargaining position in their contractual relationships, when licensing their rights. In addition, transparency on the revenues generated by the use of their works or performances often remains limited. This ultimately affects the remuneration of the authors and performers. This proposal includes measures to improve transparency and better balanced contractual relationships between authors and performers and those to whom they assign their rights.”
(Authors/performers = content creators. Users. Those to whom they assign their rights = the websites whose Terms & Conditions we literally legally sign.)
Before that, it mentions that it has identified three kinds of Internet content that should receive more protection than they currently do: Education, research, and preservation of cultural heritage.
The EU may talk old-fashioned, but they’re not stupid. “Preservation of cultural heritage” is what even the most ‘pointless’ memes fall under. (Memes aren’t made in a vacuum. They are *a new language for* culture. Europe sees a hell of a lot of that in practice.) And that’s not even getting at the memes that fall under education, or even research (think memes that compile vast amounts of information).
You’ll notice there are still some memes that would be a bit questionable here. They’re the ones that propagate hate speech, or advance political purposes. The EU is a *stickler* for those. Those will be the kinds of memes that any changes will most directly affect.
Like. I know people are afraid the EU will turn out to have the same kind of greed as American corporations do. But let me tell you: if that were the case, websites like youtube wouldn’t be so scared.
THIS IS ALSO IMPORTANT:
“Furthermore, the proposal will not affect retroactively any acts undertaken or rights acquired before the date of transposition. The transparency obligation contained in the proposal only aims at rebalancing contractual relationships between creators and their contractual counterparts while respecting contractual freedom.”
So any memes already on the Internet pre-Article 13 are *not affected*. I’ve seen the opposite being said a lot lately, and often not even by people who live in Europe?
And! Oh! Look at this!
“Access and availability of audiovisual works on video-on-demand platforms: A non-legislative option (Option 1), consisting in the organisation of a stakeholder dialogue on licensing issues, was not retained as it was deemed insufficient to address individual cases of blockages. The chosen option (Option 2) combines the organisation of a stakeholder dialogue with the obligation for Member States to set up a negotiation mechanism.”
In other words: the EU consulted the big-name corporations (like record companies) for their input, the corporations said “we should get to say if individual videos (like lyric videos) stay up or not.” The EU concluded that was not sufficient, and that instead each member state– each EU country– should have a specialised appeal process for individuals to contact if their content gets unfairly taken down.
So. Yet another common point I often see getting touted around turns out to be misleading.
And my favourite one so far, read it carefully:
“New technological developments have been carefully examined. The proposal includes several exceptions that aim at facilitating the use of copyright-protected content via new technologies. This proposal also includes measures to facilitate access to content, including via digital networks. Finally, it ensures a balanced bargaining position between all actors in the digital environment.”
Fans should be fine. If the proposal goes through, it would be easier to *access* the content we’re fans of. Cross-border region blocking is a thing the proposal addresses a lot, seeks to circumvent.
I’m gonna stop with this chain of reblogs for now. I need sleep.
Just. The EU aren’t out to get you. Not unless you’re a billionaire who’s found a way to avoid paying taxes. *That’s* who they’re out to get.
@deadcatwithaflamethrower and some more info. I personally have not done any research or reading on it, but these people have. Still plenty of room for people to concerned about loose wording that could be exploited, I think, but not as big a panic as some people make it out to be?
I think, with ANyTHING that speaks of regulating content on the internet, that its’ best to proceed with caution. But also reblogging so there is a counterpoint out there.
The Netherlands democratically puts a list of the 2000 best songs together every year around New Year’s and the biggest mystery every time is whether Bohemian Rhapsody wins again
i’m serious, if it doesn’t win, it’s second place
every winner before 2005 is Bohemian Rhapsody as well
why arent we talking about the constant presence of hotel california
Because you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Obviously I want you to take care of your pets and make sure they get food and fresh water on a regular basis, but cats being huge drama queens and screaming hysterically at you and acting like they’re tragic famine victims who haven’t eaten in weeks and are about to drop dead from starvation right mcfuckin now, because you’re 10 minutes late feeding them is always going to be one of the funniest things to me
the cat who lives at the vet clinic i volunteer at was mad yesterday because his dinner was half an hour late due to a busy day. he proceeded to go to all the (empty dw) garbage cans and tried to knock them over and started desperately scavenging for scraps of food because obviously no one loves him or cares about him and if he must eat garbage to survive then so be it
not food related, but one time my cat cried at me for 20 minutes before i worked out that the reason why she was upset was because there was a coat hanger on her favourite cushion
This is absolutely beautiful and changed my life, thank you so much. Please protect her from hangers at all costs
wow. am STORVING and humaines here making joke laugh at cate honger ?!
My cat is a social eater who is not food motivated at all, so I was baffled when I first got him because he didn’t seem to care about food but he would SCREAM at me for hours when I knew his bowl was full. Any time I went to double check that he did indeed have food, he’d book it to the bowl and snarf like his life depended on it, but as soon as I walked away he’d follow me screaming again.
Eventually I figured out that he just wanted a dining companion and was screaming about how we’re a family and families eat together, god damnit! I moved his food bowl under my computer desk and it fixed the problem. But if I’m ever out for more than 12 hours I’ll come home to find him in a passive-aggressive kitty huff because dinner has been ready for hours but he’s been trying to be considerate (unlike some humans) and waiting for me to eat it.
My cats are indoor cats. Being indoor cats, they can’t go outside to hunt for food (mice, rats, birds, etc) to gift to my sister and I.
But they know that the kitchen has food. They know where the easily accessible cat food is. And obviously my sister and I are just Really Big Stupid Hairless cats.
So if my sister and I go without leaving our rooms for too long? My cats will sit outside our doors and scream for our attention, lead us to their food bowls, and then only stop the screaming and leading once they see us sit down at the table and eat something. Because they think we’re hungry.
Your cats are the sweetest beings on the Earth, it makes my heart warm knowing that they exist. They love you very much and they care so much, they want you healthy and happy and will make sure you don’t neglect yourself and oh god they are so perfect. Real pure love exists, I am happy to be alive today.
My neighbor is a hardcore drunk. Like, 9am and dude is drinking vodka, but he had a cat that’s pretty much his honest to god caregiver because I have seen this cat visibly screaming at this man to keep him from hurting himself and sometimes when he hasn’t been outside for a while, the cat will scream at my door until I go outside to knock on the door to check on him. Cats are literal angels.
I have a cat named a Kitty Pryde who has an extra thumb and these giant paws and while she’s not super bright she did learn that she likes being pet. So I must like being petted right? So if I’m watching TV alone she’ll come up and just with her giant paw gently stroke my arm or hand until I pet her back and she waits and pets me again and it goes on a while. Cats are angels.
My cat once stuffed my bath mat into the litter box
Mine wakes me up if I sleep in too long cuz she wants me to take my pills. Fiance said she was yelling at him all day yesterday. She stopped whwn I got home…and asked him if he tooks his meds. He hadn’t.
My girlie screams at me if she thinks I’m up past bedtime. Apparently this transfers to my new roommates too: Maeve led @katculator to her room, yelled until she was under the covers, then came back to the kitchen to do the same to me.
My Sebastian is in tune with my mental illnesses. If my depression and anxiety are really bad he will sit on my chest purring with his paws around my neck hugging me and his head under my chin.
He also can tell when I can’t be crowded, I was having a panic attack sitting on the floor with my back at a corner and Sebastian sat a few feet away looking at me, but not getting too close. It was like he was telling me I’m here for you but I know you don’t want to be touched right now. Cats are amazing. They know more than people think.
@dragonkitty YOU NAMED YOUR CAT KITTU PRYDE? THAT’S AWESOME
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