On June 20th or June 21st the EU could force internet users to pay tax for using copyrighted material.
Under copyright reform article 13, the EU will force copyrighted material, regardless of fair use, to pay a tax that only large corporations can afford. They will use bots that don't know the difference between piracy and fair use. This means that if you post a link, meme, critique, or anything transformative, you have to pay a tax to whatever corporation/entity you were using . We won't be able to play a short clip of, say a television show, no matter how you used it. It applies to the EU specifically, but, with its huge economy, It could easily have a profound effect on the US and world.
In order to stop this, we must not be Aggressive, saying things like "Fucking EU retards implementing more bullshit" however, we must be assertive, saying things like "Though it will diminish piracy significantly, the damage it will do to free speech is way more dangerous" (and then you’d give examples and evidence why that is); If we seem like the more rational side of the argument, more people will side with us. It’s not wrong to be enraged and frustrated with this, but, like with MLK Jrs “I had a dream” speech, people will listen more to an concerned message than a hateful one. With the EU making our time to prevent it very short, we must talk about it wherever and whenever we can.
If this law gets passed, all the freedoms and opportunities the internet has given us, the entire point of the internet (being able to upload Independent and experimental ideas, thoughts and content) will be destroyed almost permanently.
politics suck, can we go back to pointlessly shitposting!
Colton Campbell
Payback for the mutt meme
Brody Barnes
it's not a meme though
Matthew Lee
Remember when the internet was panicking because of Ajit Pai and the whole net neutrality shit? What exactly ended up happening? Not a single thing. This is too retarded to ever become a reality and there would be a fucking riot if they ended up pulling through with it.
Samuel Clark
Because Ajit was deregulating. This is more regulation
Nathaniel Price
this is actually important though some businesses have already ceased business in the eu because of gdpr read about the new law
also
Asher Garcia
I dont care, Europoors voted in a totalitarian state and now they are going to have to deal with the reality of that system.
Fuck em.
William Ward
Good thing I don't live in the EU
Owen Butler
Shut the fuck up
Anthony Miller
Don't care, it does't affect me.
Tyler Carter
But the EU has such a big economy, that it could easily influence the world as a whole.
Nicholas Jones
>EU why should I feel anything other than amused?
Jaxson Lopez
Kindly fuck off.
Easton Brooks
I hope it really does destroy the internet memes, because then it means there is no more r/banter
Gabriel James
still huwhiter than u, turkgerm
But really, are they just doing this to cut down on "fake news" (real news that the gov and mayne stream meteor don't want you to know)?