The #EuropeanParliament is voting on 20th June on changes to the #CopyrightDirective.
#Article13 would mean automated content filters (like YouTube uses) on all sites. Large corporations would be able to censor and spy on all internet content, because they would be running the filters on behalf of smaller sites:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal
Call/email your MEP *today* to say no to Article 13, especially if they're on this list of committee members:
The further irony is that Blender Foundation's videos were all licensed under Creative Commons, so BF had already given permission for anyone to share their videos anywhere.
BF have no idea why YouTube decided to suddenly take the videos down, or why YT refuses to fix the problem even though they know about it.
No one knows. YouTube (and Google) have a track record of taking things down without explanation, and there's no practical way to force them to explain their decisions.
If Article 13 is adopted, this kind of thing will start to be seen across the entire internet.
There are no political solutions, there are only technological solutions.
Corporate money clearly affects who gets elected, but so do votes.
One of the main campaigners against Article 13 is a Pirate Party MEP. She got elected because enough people voted for her:
I will never participate in the circus of violence that is politics. It's stupid. You're a sheeple of you do.
And I do not want to have an effect on these results. They are all illegitimate anyway. You do not have a right to vote whether someone's rights are to be violated.
The European Parliament doesn't have a two party system.
I don't know enough about alternative networks to have an opinion.
also meshnet communities and hobbyists would be glad to tell you benefits compared to the internet
Thanks for the info, I'll take a look.
still, we NEED to switch over to community-controlled networks for a plethora of reasons. it's the only way to go forward with technology. so you may as well pose it as a suggestion in case art.13 passes
@switchingsocial MIT OpenCourseWare has the same problem. https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/100215430080046245
@switchingsocial ... And MIT OpenCourseWare is also licensed under Creative Commons (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0). https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/
This is the most recent thing they have to say about the problem:
https://twitter.com/MITOCW/status/1008717037160534016
It's now Day 4 of Blender's videos being taken down by YouTube's content filter without explanation.
YT/Google has total control over who sees Blender's content, and there is no way for Blender to do anything about this.
#Article13 would mean automated content filters like this across the whole internet, controlled by large corporations.
Don't let this happen. Please PLEASE call/email your MEP to reject #Article13 today. The vote is tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1008993261044817920
@switchingsocial
Beside the topic of content filtering...
#BlenderFoundation can do one thing IMHO:
delete its videos on #youtube and upload them to #peertube !
Fair enough isn't it?
If Article 13 passes, content filtering may become mandatory :/
And such filtering couldn't be done by small sites or small companies, because it would require enough resources to check for matches with millions of copyrighted files.
It would probably end up being Google, Microsoft etc filtering smaller sites' content.
@switchingsocial oh ok...i see..it's worse than i though then... 😞
@switchingsocial That IS bizarre. But, I am actually not too surprised, since I have run into quite a few communication problems with Big Tech. So much of it is automated, and even if a live human reviews a decision, RARELY do they give a response that isn't automated as well. "Too Big To Fail" really becomes "Too Big To.. Error.. Error.. Error.."
@switchingsocial I’m also hearing news about article 11. Shouldn’t euros contact their MEP about that upcoming vote?
Article 13 (mandatory automated content filters) is generally considered the most worrying as it's so wide-ranging, but Article 11 (ban on unlicensed news excerpts) is also concerning.
Ideally mention both when you contact the MEP.
@ilovecomputers @switchingsocial That's actually pretty difficult. I tried some times with bad results. I was just able to talk to secretaries and in about an instant they stopped the conversation after I mentioned both articles.
@waweic @switchingsocial I honestly expected better from European democracy. At least Usonian politicians pretend to listen.
American politicians? There are cowards there as well, unfortunately :/
I think it's just more reason to pressure them in particular, they are clearly scared of facing voters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/05/pat-toomey-ted-cruz-healthcare-bill-protest
@switchingsocial no one said this shit was easy. Gotta keep pushing!
👏 Well done for trying, let's hope they stopped it because they are being overwhelmed by this topic.
Maybe email is another option?
@switchingsocial @ilovecomputers Probably, I will write an e-mail tomorrow
@switchingsocial Holy shit this directive is a bad idea
(or, wtf i love america now)
We already know that automated content filters don't work. They put absolute power over content in the hands of a system that is opaque and broken.
A couple of days ago YouTube took down all of the Blender Foundation's videos from the Blender Foundation's channel due to a copyright claim by... the Blender Foundation.
The BF is an official YT partner, but days later they still cannot get a straight answer from YT about what is going on:
https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1007952844329189377
https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1008677459640881152