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what the fuck
I don’t want to disappear without a forewarning.
As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.
The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive. Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down.
Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.
Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.
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This doesn’t just affect Europe. The content creators you love are going to be in hot water for sharing their art and writing with you online. Any and all content that doesn’t belong to us will be filtered. Even memes are at risk, as the person who took the original photo may want to file complaints against any platform that allows it to be used without permission. But it goes even further than that.
Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf, Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:
“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.
But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”
Here is the original Article 13. It’s even scarier. / Link 2
Here is how to contact your MEPs.
Here is a full list of everything that will be affected.
Europe is facing a huge problem, and unlike with Net Neutrality, the world doesn’t seem to care.
whats the difference between outlaws and inlaws
🚨This is a Red Alert for net neutrality 🚨
Last December, the FCC voted to to kill net neutrality. If we do not take action, this will kill the free and open internet as we know it. The internet needs you—all of you—to make sure your voices are heard NOW.
We need all hands on deck for this one. It may be our last chance. If you’re feeling under-informed and overwhelmed about why net neutrality is so incredibly important, we have this handy guide just for you.
Here’s what you can do to save the internet:
In mid-May, the Senate will vote on a resolution to overrule the FCC using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). We only need one more vote in the Senate to win. Write or call your Senators or Representatives. You can also text BATTLE to 384-387 to get more information on how to write to your reps. You can do this, Tumblr.
Join us and dozens of your other favorite companies like Etsy, Vimeo, Reddit, and GitHub to raise awareness with the Red Alert campaign being run by Battle for the Net. Just add this small widget to your Tumblr to let your followers know how they can contact their reps. It’s as easy as copying and pasting the small line of code right into the customize theme page on the web.
This is important. This matters. It’s up to you to help.
BIIIIITTTCCHHHHHHHHH
Not enough people seem to want to bother with “Battle For The Net, even though it’s super duper easy to use Battle For The Net because they made it easy for you, and it’s so quick to use because of how fast the internet is right now since the FCC haven’t destroyed the internet yet.
If you have a cellphone, they will text you and tell you what to do. They will give you a number to call and tell you what to do. The script basically is
“I Support strong Net Neutrality rules. Could you use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the FCC’s appeal?“
Can’t get texts? Worried that you’ll miss the phone number in the email? No problem! It’s (202) 930-9322 and you should be updated fairly regularly on both email and text. (Provided you have either one.)
This takes maybe ten minutes at most. Five at least.
You can also “share” this on Twitter and Facebook without having to worry about what to say- it will provide exactly what you need to say for you.
Scroll down a bit and insert the state where you live and you’ll see
All you have to do is click on their faces and it will automatically send you to Twitter with a Tweet ready for them.
(It’s different for people who are voting for it.)
Again, this should take maybeee… Thirty seconds at most?
lol if you use islamaphobic slurs like ‘raghead’ or ‘towelhead’ you can unfollow me and block me right now
if you dont reblog this youre straight
talk show with michael b jordan and steven yeun where i invite them to sit down and recreate iconic anime scenes based only on memory and the contents of their pockets
New concept: Lets support all trans people and not just the ones we find attractive.
today is the only day you can reblog this
Black Panther two could just be T’Challa and Nakia gazing at each other for two hours with Shuri laughing at cat videos in the background and I would watch it like, five times.
#1 best thing in Black Panther: Shuri
#2 best thing in Black Panther: T’Challa’s lil panther ears
If you call pedophilia a kink please unfollow me and never talk to me again
anyone else fucking LOVE BEING IN BED???
lance: hey keith are you okay? i know being galra must be a surprise but…you look really out of it dude do you wanna talk
keith: no im fine
keith internally: all the galra are like 7ft tall. zarkon is fucking 8ft maybe 7 ½ without the suit and i fucking get the short genes. i get the SHORT GENES. im part of an alien race where all of them are ridiculously tall and im fucKING FIVE FOOT SIX–
A pastor says donations of bottled water to his Flint church have dried up in the past month.
Donations poured in from across the nation in the weeks and months after it was learned that Flint’s drinking water was contaminated with lead. At times, the response nearly overwhelmed the effort to distribute water to Flint residents.
Bishop Roger Lee Jones’ north side church parking lot used to be filled with pallets of water, but now the flood of donations has slowed to a trickle.
Please help them!! I’ve seen some posts about this couple, but nobody here has directly posted the link to their crowd fund.
I NEED HELP FOR MY SISTER AND HER SON
My name is Monica. And this is my sister Wiola and her six years old son Jakub.
Two months ago my sister’s husband left with another woman and has move to another country. We don’t know where excacly. He doesn’t pay for anything, he doesn’t send any money. He is a piece of shit. He was homophobic towards me (I’m a lesbian), he cheated on her when she was pregnant. He was always working, not caring about his son. But my sister stayed with him because of the child. Also she had to leave the place they live for the last 9 years because it was bought by his parents and they told her to move out.
She is back now in our parents home where I sill live too. There’s only two small rooms in the house, kitchen and one bathroom. All of this for 5 people now. This is our house:
And this is were they sleep
She wants to find a place to rent because right now she is stuck wth Jakub with me in my small room. She is a kindergarden teacher and her salary is only 900zł. And her son is in the first grade and he doesn’t even have a place to do his homework. My father is an alcoholic with violent tendencies so it’s not good for my nephew to still live here. He is very sensitive and cry realy easly and he has developed eating disorder in the past months. She is going to take legal action against her husband but she needs money for that too. Her lawyer told her that maybe there’s a chance to take the house back. Or at least money for it. I don’t know how else to help her because I’m unemployed at this moment. Please we can’t live like that for much longer. She needs 1400$.
Even a dollar makes a difference. And if you are not able to donate, please reblog.
You can use any currency you want: PAYPAL: monicakil@mail.com
Wishing a speedy recovery to Anthony Borges, 15. Used his body to hold a door closed to protect his classmates. Shot 5 times Hero.
A lot of you may remember that my sister passed in 2015 and we were able to afford to bury her thanks to the kindness of community members. My family is quite poor, my father is a disabled veteran and he and my mother are just getting by. My dad was able to buy a small granite marker that the cemetery staff deemed “temporary” about a year ago, and the cemetery staff has REMOVED it, giving us the option of buying a permanent, expensive new one, or leaving her grave as an unmarked pile of dirt, since they also have neglected to plant any grass on her grave. There is an entire facebook page dedicated to airing grievances against the cemeteries in Floyd county that are owned by StoneMor parent company. Even if you can only spare a dollar, please do. We are out of options at this point.
me driving away from your shitty opinion
Help me flee my country.
Hello, my name is Carmen (she/her). I’m 23 years old, and I need help to leave my country, Venezuela.
(Some info about myself: I have a B.Ed. in Spanish and Literature, and I’m currently working as a news editor)
The following is a lot to take in, but bare with me.
As some of you may know, Venezuela is in a deep economic, political, and humanitarian crisis due to the low oil prices, the devaluation of out currency and a corrupt government that doesn’t know how to handle the nation.
Right now Vzla is the country with the highest inflation rate in the world: 1369% (hyperinflation).
Our currency, the bolívar fuerte, is practically worthless. Here, one (1) dollar is worth around 100.000 Bs. f. the minimum wage is 456.507 Bs. f. a month. I, a full time worker (8 hours per day), make less than 5 dollars a month.
Because the national production is dead, almost everything is imported. Which means the cost of products depends on the value of the $. So basic goods can cost half your salary.
(Here some info about foreign currency regulations and price controls in Venezuela)
Some prices (12/11/2017):
(I know, it’s RIDICULOUS)
All of this, of course, increases the violence, insecurity and corruption rates as well. Caracas (our capital), Valencia and Maturín made it to the top 10 “most violent cities in the world”. Cumaná (Where I live) is number 24.
Basically, you can’t own anything without being at risk of getting robbed/kidnaped/killed, you can’t save money because the devaluation/inflation moves too fast, you can’t eat well because you can’t afford it, you can’t get sick because there’s no medicine and hospitals are in shambles.
We literally don’t even have cash, because we need too many bills to buy anything and the demand is too high.
You can’t live here, period.
A lot of venezuelans are leaving the country everyday to anywhere really, but as the time goes by it gets harder to get out. Airlines are cutting flights and the transportation system is shutting down.
(The photo below is from the San Cristóbal terminal. A bus loads people who travel to the Colombian border. 12/07/2017)
I stayed for the longest, hopeful that maybe things would change, but nothing happened and things are just getting worse.
For that and more, I, along with two close friends, have decided to leave Venezuela and settle in Perú, to help our families from outside.
“The bolivar is so devalued that sending only a fraction of a month’s salary to a relative in Venezuela can amount to millions of bolivars. For example, the minimum wage in Peru is around US $250. If you send your relative about US $10, they would have three minimum wage monthly salaries” (x).
But before all that we need money. At least $1.500 to pay for the travel (on bus/ 4 days aprox.) and to cover the expenses of a month stay (until we stabilize) in Perú.
So, that’s it. Any little help is a lot, PLEASE SHARE.
(Because neither Paypal nor GoFundMe work in Venezuela…)
Here’s the link to my friend’s fundraiser in Generosity.
My Twitter
(Sorry if my english is wack. If you want to ask me anything or want to know more about us, my ask is open)
please help me escape arranged marriage
my name is naima and i’m an eighteen y/o somali lesbian in desperate need of help. over the past few months i have been under the impression that my family is warming up to the idea of me not being what they want me to be. unfortunately this is not the case and i believe the only way out is to escape as they have now resorted to basically treating me like a prisoner and promising me to a man instead of letting me go to university as they promised. i have no funds of my own and to even think of escaping and surviving the first few weeks i desperately need money. i have to use ko-fi since it’s the most anonymous of ways and my father has found out what i do online before (i had to remake my tumblr). despite everything i do not wish any harm on them. i simply want to part ways. i don’t have a lot of followers but if any of you is willing to help i will forever carry you in my heart.
ko-fi.com/princessnaima
I did it everyone, I kept my promise and made this meme dedicated to the fight for net neutrality and I’m on you’re side.
i see your elf practice meme and raise you ‘i’m a man now tanta’