#savetheinternet

If you havent heard whats going on, I’d suggest watching what Legal Eagle or Phillip DeFranco posted about the Supreme court and the future of the internet. Basically they’re debating the ability to sue a content platform for the content its users post on it, basically treating youtube’s suggestion algorithm as youtube “creating” the content, making it liable for everything its algorithm recommends… this could destroy Youtube’s ability to host videos in the way that we know it, limiting search and recommendation functions, or at worst forcing Youtube to limit who can even post to its platform. Its scary to even think about what might happen to small creators without an established subscriber base… no one new would see your videos, only people who actively search it out, or who already follow you…

https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/

I might feel a little like crying...  The US-guys always had the support of us Europeans with ACTA and SOPA and whatnot to fight against it ... where was the help of the US when we Europeans might have needed them to raise our voice against this **** idea of some old white guys who don’t know how the internet works?

Random: Why do you have so many external hard drives?

Me: There is one for every fandom I am in.

Random: What?

Me *plugs in a harddisk* *thousands of fanfics and fanart*

SAVE YOUR INTERNET

These are the public protests that are going to happen on SATURDAY, MARCH 23! Go find a city near you and help SAVE THE INTERNET before it's to late!

Article 11 and 13 are going to censor and kill the internet as we know it.

Memes? Censored. Fanarts? Censored.

Honestly Article 13 is scaring the hell out of me, and I legitimately do not understand how anyone thinks that it’s a good idea.  Do people not understand how much exposure they get from free media platforms like YouTube? Let’s use Let’sPlayers as an example. I know that personally, I never would have heard of games like Sally Face, Undertale, Subnautica, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Cuphead, Little Nightmares, Vanish, God of War, Presentable Liberty, Simulacra, etc. etc., because I do not frequent game shops or move much in those circles. But thanks to LetsPlayers, the people who made those games now have SO MUCH MORE EXPOSURE. 

The Internet shouldn’t be for the super rich, and it should not be a commodity accessible only to the socially elite. What about small businesses or small platforms? What about niche interests? What about the ability to fucking educate yourself? Even more, what counts as a copyright violation? 

Someone uses a popular character to demonstrate animation techniques. Is that allowed?  Someone creates a makeup tutorial for a cosplay. What about that?  Someone does a cover of a song. Is that okay?  Someone uses a franchise or game or movie as the base for something new. Can we do that?  Someone provides their thoughts and feelings on a book. Is that illegal now too? What about someone who creates something entirely original, a 100% organic free-range New Thing, but that New Thing is left to suffocate and die because there is no way to share it with new people? There are no big platforms that can give you a hand. You don’t have the money for an aggressive marketing campaign, and you have no sponsors. You’ve told everyone you know about your New Thing, but beyond your social circle, you have no voice. Now where are you?  “But Silver, what about the people who made these New Things you’re talking about, and then had their ideas stolen from them?”  That’s a huge problem, yes. But stripping away creative liberties from literally tens of millions of people is NOT the way to go about solving that problem!