If you don’t know what this means, it’s basically then end of how the internet currently is in Europe. Memes? Nope. Youtubers? Bye!
You’d need a license for everything!!!!
And my fellow Americans my be all like, well, what’s the big deal for us? It’s a Europe deal.
No, because the Youtubers there that you love so much? This effects them too! I’m freaking out because Jack, the person who helps my depression go away, may no longer be able to do what he does!
Guys, we need to stop this somehow. Please.
Call your MEPs. Sign petitions. Protest (Peacefully please. Don’t get hurt).
I’m sorry for tagging you guys if you don’t want to be or already know, I just want as many people to know as possible!
I can’t tag everyone, but if you see this, please reblog it. Spread the news. Sign the petition. Call your MEPs. Do what you can to help stop this from passing in January.
James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up – Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement
because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth
of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for
300 years.
Just last week, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser posted his research
on automated censorship of classical music, in which he found that it
was nearly impossible to post anything by composers like Bartok,
Schubert, Puccini and Wagner, because companies large and small have
fraudulently laid claim to their whole catalogs.
Europeans have one week to contact their MEPs to head off this catastrophe.
Stop what you’re doing and contact two friends in the EU right now and send them to Save Your Internet – before it’s too late.
The European Parliament voted against the Copyright Directive in a 318-278 vote. It will be debated in full in September leading to a new proposal. We won this battle, but the war is not over yet.
Wait is this real? Because I’ve just seen another post saying it’s been approved, but maybe that one was a bit older?
aight so european leaders got together to make decisions about the refugee situation and the bottom line is 1) refugees are gonna be detained outside of europe, 2) the detainment centers are actually named “kontrollierte zentren” in german which is not ominous or in incredibly bad taste at all, 3) private rescuers are gonna be charged for rescuing drowning refugees, 4) we pay countrues such as turkey or libya a lot of money to keep refugees out of europe, 5) outer european borders will be strengthened and frontex (border control) will receive more funding
so in short uhhh europe decided on killing and locking up more refugees; fun!
I am American and I have never seen photos like this. I had no idea there are borders like this. Even though I LOVE the idea of open borders, I am staring at these pictures like “wait…people can just…walk across some stones or grass and BE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY??? and nobody stops them?? how does that WORK?!” So you can tell that my country’s propaganda has gotten to me by convincing me that this CAN’T work even though…it…obviously can.
These pics just seem unreal to me. I’ve been taught my whole life that this can’t exist. In 27 years no one has ever sat me down and gone, look, here’s how it is elsewhere. It isn’t impossible at all.
I want to add something, but I’d just be restating what they said. I.. didn’t know peace and kindness like this was possible.
“Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.” – Thor Heyerdahl
The Romanian government just decriminalised official misconduct.
This essentially makes corruption legal.
what is life
fuckers passed the law in the middle of the night
despite protests being held against this in the last two weeks
there were more than 100k people on the streets a few days ago
i can’t even
I’m shaking with rage. A huge number of politicians will have their criminal records thrown out. People who have cause state prejudice of millions of dollars (they’re estimating a total of almost one billion). People who have tried to rig the votes in the last presidential election. The officials who had done the inspection in the Colectiv club before the fire that claimed 64 lives last year will be off their charges too.
Protests are being organized throughout the country. I’m so worried that violence may break out, despite the fact that all protests so far have been peaceful.
There are 175.000 people out in the streets in the entire country. I’m hoping this changes something.
Over 300.000 at the moment. It’s the biggest protest in Romania in the last 25 years.
HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN SHARING THIS
Update 02.02.2017:
There were some incidents at the protest in Bucharest last night, some bands of people have become violent towards the police forces, throwing firecrackers and other blunt objects towards them. This determined the police to ask all protesters to go home, so that the situation doesn’t escalate. They also used tear gas on the instigators. 4 people were injured.
I want to stress that this is not how the protest should be seen. The majority of the people is peaceful and this is the sole incident so far. The crowd condemned the actions of these aggressors, shouting “Not like this!”.
The protests will continue tonight. The people, along with the president, the Superior Council of Magistracy, the attorney general, the European Union and the embassies of several countries are asking the repeal of the emergency ordinance that would decriminalise official misconduct.
200,000+ protesters last night as well and another protest announced for tonight (feb. 3) people basically said that they’ll be out in the streets as long as they have to
these are the biggest protests in romania since the 1989 revolution that brought down ceausescu’s communist regime
the social-democrat party (psd), responsible for doing this, came into power again at the end of last year with the support of less than 20% of total voters (given a turnout of 39.5% THIS IS WHAT FUCKING HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON’T GET OFF YOUR ASS AND VOTE)
‘The PSD won elections [in December] with a huge vote. The government’s power is legitimate,” Dragnea said, labelling the centre-right president, Klaus Iohannis, the “moral author of last night’s violence’
DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING
interior minister carmen dan publicly singled out several journalists and opposition politicians as ‘instigators’ in the protests (link in romanian)
some of the people who will benefit from these decrees are under investigation for (link in romanian) are under investigation for large-scale electoral fraud and literal fucking murder. as in, their actions killed people, and not like 20 years ago. it happened in 2015.
FUN TRIVIA: did you know the european commission said that if this continues it will affect the amount of funding romania gets from the eu
basically it sucks and i’m going to take this opportunity to explain to all you tumblr ~pastel communists once again that this level of entrenched corruption that puts convicts in office and openly decriminalizes fraud, theft and yup, potentially actual murder, is the heritage of 5 decades of communist rule
when white europeans say “lmao americans are so dumb, how could they let this happen??”
Don’t forget Brexit.
germans: ok, so our country is called Deutschland
the french: got it. the country of Allemagne
germans: …no? that doesn’t even sound like it
the english: oh no, we got it, it’s Germany
germans: not even close
the polish: it’s Niemcy, right?
germans: how are you each getting it wrong in a completely different way
danes: Tyskland
lithuanians: Vokietija
slovakians: Nemecko
germans: …
finns: Saksa
germans: you know what? sure. whatever
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