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You are not required to pledge which politician you are going to vote in the next EU elections. The purpose for this is to facilitate contact between you and a
by kriive 8y ago
You are not required to pledge which politician you are going to vote in the next EU elections.
The purpose for this is to facilitate contact between you and a local politician who has not publicly declared his/her vote intentions on article 13 yet.
Your job is to convince him/her to vote against article 13.
I understand that the title is a little misleading, but come on!
P.S. I'm italian too.
- lostjohnny 8y agoI will never vote for somebody who's opposing to a free EU Besides, as a long time activist for internet freedom, I agree that something like article 13 is urgently needed. There is no freedom without protection. What EU is trying to do is to protect the small local EU actors against the tech giants from outside EU.
- jononor 8y agoHow is Article 13 helping small local EU actors?
- lostjohnny 8y ago> Platforms run by startups (small and micro-sized businesses) are exempted from the law. > Licenses that platforms take out cover uploads by their users, as long as they act non-commercially or “don’t generate significant revenues” > Uploaders can complain about blocked uploads and request impartial, human review. (it means real justice, not Facebook's justice or Twitter justice or youTube's justice) Believe it or not, the platforms are already liable in case of legal infringement, it's not really different from before. Right now YouTube just get away with it because "we have too much content to check". The small players don't because, well, they are too small to even get a chance to fight.
- jononor 8y agoNo, platforms run by startups are not exempted. The criteria for exception are: Available to the public for less than 3 years AND Annual turnover below €10 million AND Fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitors So any "for-profit" site which is more than 3 years old will need to implement upload filters.
- justinclift 8y agoSo, the Open Source site we've been putting together in our spare time over the last few years (dbhub.io)... probably won't be exempted. Ugh.
- jononor 8y agoIt might, if it does not found as "for profit". Where this line will be drawn is unknown.
- mcv 8y ago> Platforms run by startups (small and micro-sized businesses) are exempted from the law. Are they? From what I understand, in the latest proposal they're not except. Or maybe only when they're less than 3 years old, which isn't very helpful. The real problem is that the technology for this doesn't even exist, and if it exists, it exists only in the hands of Facebook and Google, forcing everybody else into their arms, giving Facebook and Google even more power. > Licenses that platforms take out cover uploads by their users, as long as they act non-commercially or “don’t generate significant revenues” So that means every single blog has to get licenses with an unlimited number of potential rights holders on the off chance that a commenter might quote something from them. That's completely unreasonable. > Believe it or not, the platforms are already liable in case of legal infringement, it's not really different from before. It is different, because after this passes, platforms are required to filter using technology that doesn't exist, and will probably err on simply blocking nearly everything from the EU, just to be safe. Has any of the supporters of this law considered that in order to check all uploads against copyrighted material, every single platform needs access to a database containing every single copyright work? Nowhere have I seen any reasonable explanation of how this is supposed to work.
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- deogeo 8y ago> I will never vote for somebody who's opposing to a free EU I would count anyone who supports article 13 as opposed to a free EU.