The EU is banning memes

[Zombie]

Article 13 of the EU copyright law has passed yesterday. It means that soon, social media outlets will have to pre-approve EVERY SINGLE post you make on their sites and if they see that it infringes some copyright, it will have to be deleted before even being published. Read: EU votes to effectively ban memes electronically as Article 13 'copyright filter' passes | TheINQUIRER

What I'm concerned about in the short term is that this regulation will effectively kill memes.

On the long term, I think there's no way that the EU won't use this resolution for political censorship.

Is there any way to stop this now or we'll have to pass around printed out memes during secret gatherings organized in dark cellars near candlelight?

 

[deepstrasz]

Problem is, many posts get automatically removed if enough report buttons are clicked. That happens especially to things like call for protesting.

 

[chobibo]

One less cry for Kim Kardashian.

 

[San]

 

[Zombie]

 

[Dr Super Good]

Probably not as bad as that site made it sound...

Content only would get pulled down if there is a copyright infringement. In the example given it is unlikely that one news site would have to pay another for quoting them unless that news site explicitly demands payment.

Most mems would likely not be effect either, since they use still shots of movies and such. Copyright violations usually do not apply to still shots as it falls under fair usage. Some GIFs on the other hand might be subject to removal, but again that would depend on content and length.

My biggest question is how on earth do they plan to enforce this? Sure Facebook and Google can spend multiple million dollars on filters (which they already have) that do this. However as a small company how can they possibly expect one to enforce it? I hope they provide free software packages to do the policing, otherwise this is just another tax to hurt small business.

 

[GhostWolf]

Article 13 is only a part of a bigger picture, check the other articles. Just a death cry from the EU's drying corpse, as it tries once more to take control of the world wide web, right before it goes away forever in the pages of history as one of the worst social experiments in the making of THE EMPIRE.
The irony is that this will destroy the EU ever faster if it actually passes the parliament.
Everything they are doing in recent years only hastens their ruin, almost as if the EU is filled with ideologues that don't actually care about europe or its people :thinking:

 

[Chaosy]

Oh no. @San might actually have to stop shitposting memes.
Today is a sad day

 

[Shar Dundred]

Pretty sure @San doesn't listen to the EU.

Article 13 is only a part of a bigger picture, check the other articles. Just a death cry from the EU's drying corpse, as it tries once more to take control of the world wide web, right before it goes away forever in the pages of history as one of the worst social experiments in the making of THE EMPIRE.
The irony is that this will destroy the EU ever faster if it actually passes the parliament.
Everything they are doing in recent years only hastens their ruin, almost as if the EU is filled with ideologues that don't actually care about europe or its people :thinking:

I agree.

 

[deepstrasz]

Pretty sure @San doesn't listen to the EU.

But @Zombie does.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Wanna bet?

 

[deepstrasz]

Wanna bet?

Zombies are all about obedience.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Not this one.

 

[San]

will probably also hasten the upcoming episode of my suicide attempt season 3 (sub espanol)

 

[Zombie]

Zombies are all about obedience.

 

[deepstrasz]

@Zombie but memes are virtual, on a database, stored on digital memories. Even if it's in your head, the idea that's out there will be censored, won't it?

 

[San]

Deepslap already killed the memes before EU do anything, this thread is closed.

 

[deepstrasz]

this thread is closed.

 

[chobibo]

Encrypt your meme pix, store it in a zip with a password (md5 checksum?) and then append it to another image file that isn't copyrighted. Post it then, let the good times roll.

 

[Zombie]

Encrypt your meme pix, store it in a zip with a password (md5 checksum?) and then append it to another image file that isn't copyrighted. Post it then, let the good times roll.

That might work, but abolishing the EU might be a better method.

 

[deepstrasz]

That might work, but abolishing the EU might be a better method.

Czarism for the win, right?

 

[Zombie]

Czarism for the win, right?

Certainly a better alternative than the Bolshevism that's being forced on us atm.

Edit: You know it's just fucking sad how in less than 20 years, the promise of free trade and less taxation turned into a non-elected, non-democratic elite of a dozen people forcing their retarded do-gooder ideology on literally hundreds of millions of people who never fucking asked for it. And there's literally no getting away from it because not only is surveillance and the subvertive pressure constantly increasing, but Brexit totally proves that subservient politicians of individual nations will shit into the will of the people who elected them as long as Bruxelles keeps sending them "EU funds."

We were promised free trade. What we got instead was an Orwellian superstate shitting into our mouth.

Thanks, EU.

 

[deepstrasz]

Certainly a better alternative than the Bolshevism that's being forced on us atm.

I'm not sure what to choose from: Ivan the Terrible & the KGB or Lenin and the NKVD.
Wait, will I even be allowed to opt?

 

[Zombie]

I'm not sure what to choose from: Ivan the Terrible & the KGB or Lenin and the NKVD.
Wait, will I even be allowed to opt?

To be totally frank, the EU is better than either of those. Then again, humanity (or at least the West) has advanced well beyond the need for aggressive totalitarianism. I simply can't fathom why we're turning back the wheel regardless towards more surveillance, more control, less freedom of choice, less freedom of expression. Or well... I actually can, I'm just not too happy about it.

 

[deepstrasz]

I'm just not too happy about it.

Who in their rightful mind are? Problem is, it's a gamble we're playing. We best make our own countries strong. That however could lead to issue as no country can live properly without trading with another. There are not enough resources for everything you need in this century unless you want to get back to tribes and agriculture and even then you might get droughts and such. Even if you succeed living like that, you will probably be occupied by a country more advanced than you during wartime. As you can realize, there can be no utopia on Earth, unless you consider total (real) communism a thing which can only be possible if everyone would agree (have the same mindset if not mind).

 

[Zombie]

 

[Chaosy]

What is next?! The US taking away internet anonymity?

Oh wait

 

[Zombie]

YOU CANNOT TAKE AWAY INTERNET ANONIMITY

*image of a smart black dude pointing to his head*

IF IT NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE



This meme has been reviewed and approved by the EU Speech and Meme Supervisory Authority and has been found to be complaint with Article XXIII. of the European Union Copyright Law.

 

[ILikeMacNCheeze]

Now Philippines should need a regulation of using social media.

 

[Zombie]

Now Philippines should need a regulation of using social media.

Well, people can have fun in the Philippines without internet as well, unlike in Europe / USA.

 

[ILikeMacNCheeze]

 

[Selaya]

censorship bestship
eurofascist union bestunion

 

[chobibo]

@Zirukurt01 I wonder where my free gun is though... Never heard that stuff in the local news.

 

[San]

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[Zombie]

MEPs reject controversial copyright law

Get fucked, Article 13.

 

[chobibo]

Tears are coming back for Kim K

 

[GhostWolf]

This is a ruse. Exactly like net neutrality and so many other controversial "laws". Be prepared for it to be pushed again and again, until it passes, without asking for the consent of a single citizen of Europe.

 

[Zombie]

This is a ruse. Exactly like net neutrality and so many other controversial "laws". Be prepared for it to be pushed again and again, until it passes, without asking for the consent of a single citizen of Europe.

Not if this whole fucking Orwellian superstate falls apart first.