This is beyond USSR levels. Why would those rich old freaks care about what peasants do online? They have their millions of Euros, mansions, pools, luxury cars and all but you the peasant can’t even have a freaking laugh on the internet according to these SOBs. Why do they even care what we plebeian peasants do?
Why can’t they just enjoy all the stuff they stole and received in bribes and leave us alone in our misery and freely laugh about silly stuff? Don’t they have anything better to do anymore like some Bohemian Groove party or some Bilderberg meetings, or whatever Satanic Spirit cooking rituals they do and shit? Or is this their new entertainment now? Oppression of plebeians?
Yes it has gotten that bad but the question is why do we necessarily have to move towards the bad all the time? Why are our leaders drawn towards evil? When will good triumph?
YouTube’s CEO has urged creators on the popular video site to organize against a proposed EU internet regulation, reinforcing fears that the infamous Article 13 could lead to content-killing, meme-maiming restrictions on the web.
The proposed amendments to the EU Copyright Directive would require the automatic removal of any user-created content suspected of violating intellectual property law – with platforms being liable for any alleged copyright infringement. If enacted, the legislation would threaten “both your livelihood and your ability to share your voice with the world,” YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki warned the site’s content creators in a blog post on Monday.
The regulation would endanger “hundreds of thousands of job,” Wojcicki said, predicting that it would likely force platforms such as YouTube to allow only content from a hand-picked group of companies.
“It would be too risky for platforms to host content from smaller original content creators, because the platforms would now be directly liable for that content,” Wojcicki wrote.
While acknowledging that it was important to properly compensate all rights holders, the YouTube chief lamented that the “unintended consequences of Article 13 will put this ecosystem at risk.”
She encouraged YouTubers to use the #SaveYourInternet hashtag to tell the world how the proposed legislation would impact them personally.
“RIP YOUTUBE..IT WAS FUN,” read one rather fatalistic reply to the post. Another comment worried that Article 13 would do “immense damage … particularly to smaller creators.”
The proposal has stirred considerable controversy in Europe and abroad, with critics claiming that the legislation would essentially ban any kind of creative content, ranging from memes to parody videos, that would normally fall under fair use.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, has opposed Article 13 for months. The measure was advanced in June by the European Parliament. A final vote on the proposed regulation is expected to take place sometime next year.
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales have also spoken out against Article 13.
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