On June 20, the European Parliament will set in motion a process that could force online platforms like Facebook, Reddit and even 4chan to censor their users’ content before it ever gets online.
A proposed new European copyright law wants large websites to use “content recognition technologies” to scan for copyrighted videos, music, photos, text and code in a move that that could impact everyone from the open source software community to remixers, livestreamers and teenage meme creators.
Anybody who has ever had any dealings with YouTube’s Content ID system will know just how terrible of an idea this is.
Everyone made fun and derieded those that said “just block the EU” when they started with the data collection rules, they don’t look so crazy now huh?
One thing that is true of politicians EVERYWHERE is “you give ’em an inch, they’ll take a mile” and as they add more and more insanity its gonna quickly become cheaper to just black hole the EU than it is to jump through their ever more flaming hoops.
No, they still look crazy, because the copyright mafia will keep lobbying every political body they can. Blocking the EU means nothing when the US has their own draconian copyright measures.
I cannot imagine how did you manage to bring GDPR to this. GDPR is great and should be implemented globally, while this copyright crap is terrible and must die as soon as possible.
You’re talking about the EU / a place outside the US / most “everywhere” – not an inch and a mile, cm and km…
Couldn’t 4chan just “develop” their own content recognition tech which incidentally happens to suck and catch just about nothing?
The Brexit supporters’ strategy, in my experience, was simply to bombard facebook groups and similar with memes highlighting barely credible lies and half truths about the EU and how it operates.
Snappy, catchy and totally effective. I’m not surprised the EU might want them banned before more countries succumb to half-wits.
Funny enough. The proposed rules do no such thing. They are just bringin EU rules down the terrible DMCA level. And it is just a proposal that is unlikely to pass.
As always anti-EU fake news is strong, and the editor here is very prone to bitting on bullshit.
1. The DMCA doesn’t require ContentID-style proactive filtering.
2. It appears it has passed: https://torrentfreak.com/eu-parliament-committee-votes-in-favor-of-p…
1) not all were half truths.
2) this move from Brussels is playing right into the hands of Euroskeptics, and, let’s be frank – rightfully so. they really can’t spin this one as “half truth” because it really is a bullshit move.
I mean, banning stuff from the internet – what could possibly go wrong?
Does that matter? If they have to resort to half-truths at all, then their position is wrong and they deserve to be ridiculed.
and what better way to ridicule something today than memes?
like I said – this is playing directly into the hand of Euroskeptics.
It is sadly predictable that political bodies seem uninterested in attempting to prevent racist and misogynistic abuse and death threats in such media, but copyright is sacrosanct.
(Odd that the Edit function doesn’t allow me to correct a misspelling in the headline)
Edited 2018-06-20 11:30 UTC