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:
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
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.
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
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
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?