Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-33064970-20181208160718

Attention everyone on this wiki, everyone on the Internet, this is not a drill. This isn't clickbait, lying etc.

This is serious.

Article 13 (The European Meme Ban) can destroy the Internet as we know it. Every video you make, every meme you post, everything. Only big companies will be allowed to post stuff. It's what we should be fighting for, YouTube drama and Net Neutrality are minor issues comparatively speaking.

And I hear you asking "But this will only be a problem in the European Union". I will say only one thing to you. Remember that we have updated our Privacy Policy spam? That was due to the GDPR, which was made by the EU.

And according to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, if it passes, it will be a threat to individuality on all websites, including YouTube, other social media and FANDOM, which means billions of videos, posts and memes and thousands of content creators getting censored. This will include our own profiles on our wiki getting the same treatment.

But do not panic, it isn't unstoppable.

HERE IS WHAT YOU CAN DO:

1) Spread the word. (This needs to be super viral. Even if 1/10th of the people who see this take action by doing number 3 below, that is of big help.)

2) Create content about Article 13. (Memes, videos, posts, tweets, whatever. This needs attention.)

3) Call your MEP's if you live in Europe. (We need their opinion, and if they support Article 13, we'll change their minds.)

Here is the related Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market

Here is MatPat's video about it. He does a pretty good job explaining it: https://youtu.be/GbXHrj8k7dg

Here are two official videos about Article 13 by YouTube:

https://youtu.be/VqW6mUaHsmA

https://youtu.be/TRYSxIYHS0w

More information about the Meme Ban: https://saveyourinternet.eu

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-article-13-article-11-european-directive-on-copyright-explained-meme-ban


 * 1) SaveYourInternet

Additional information:

Matt Reynolds on Friday 7 December 2018 wrote:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-article-13-article-11-european-directive-on-copyright-explained-meme-ban

After passing in the European Parliament, the Directive will now enter informal negotiations between the European Commission, Council and Parliament. The three organisation will decide on the final wording of the legislation before presenting it to the EU Legal Affairs Committee at some point, mostly likely around December.

In January 2019, the Directive will go back to the European Parliament for a vote on the final wording. This is just ahead of elections to the European Parliament, so MEPs may well start paying attention to vocal constituents as they start to consider the prospect of their re-election.

Assuming the Directive passes, member states of the EU then have two years to pass laws that will bring their laws in line with the new regulations. EU directives aren’t laws in themselves, but simply compel national governments to pass their own laws that make the directives a reality, so it still very much remains to be seen how any of the articles in the Directive will actually be implemented when it comes to the real world.  