• 'Disastrous' EU copyright bill vote approved (Article 13)
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just remember for all the sugar sprinkles and frosting on the EU cake, you're gonna come across nasty rotten cherries within
As a Briton I'm conflicted. We lose the single market but get to keep our memes.
We'd lose those too. Let's be honest. The tories are festering cunts who love to support this kind of shit. And outside the EU we'll probably have to accept such a thing if a trade partner wanted it because we have no real sway.
I find it interesting that there's Eurosceptics voting for and against the bill. Can't make up their minds.
this is quickly becoming the main benefit of brexit lads!!!
Sorry to break the bubble .. but https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107119/b07f7c26-889f-4b2d-8b61-df09fa21710a/billede.png Also as a heads up .. most of the MEP's who voted for article 13 and 11. Are those who are anti-EU. They want people to get mad at EU .. instead of their shitty parties.
Everyone likes money. Silicon Valley liberals are outer space magical fairy liberal because they can literally afford to be.
they're helping it pass so they may criticize it later
So much for freedom of speech loving eurosceptics and the right
So is it time for another Google and Wikipedia blackout? Seems like people should organize a campaign like SOPA.
Liberals are voting to keep things as they are, Conservatives are voting to implement draconian copyright controls that may punish website owners if any user shares copyrighted material (effectively threatening all forms of social media, file sharing, image boards, video streaming services, etc).
Euroskeptic conservatives and far-right groups are voting in favor of this... :thinking:
"We hate EU, what should we do?" "I know .. vote in some shit where everyone will blame EU" Remember who voted for article 11 and 13, those who you shouldn't vote for next election in your country.
Not even about elections in your own country - people should start participating in elections to european parliament, because the turnout is really small - about 43% turnout for last elections I for sure will be voting next year, when i'll get that right
It's a mixture of vested interests in harsher copyright laws and allowing them to blame the EU for bad legislation (as nobody will actually check who voted for it after all). The right leaning lunatics of the Internet (so basically all of the right wing internet) are going to twist this fucking thing so hard as proof that "the lefties want to cuck your internet" and everyone is going to fall for it. Again. Eurosceptics are some of the thickest shits I've ever had the misfortune of being aware of.
Yea, remember all of this shit next time there are either national or european elections. Don't let these kind of people win due the "oh well, they are all the same so there's no point on voting anymore" mentality which we are seeing in the last years to end in total disasters.
Now that I think about it I don't think I've ever had any kind of notification that EU parliament elections are due to happen. Usually we get some kind of heads up stuff for any electoral matters over here.
Maybe its just rose-tinted glasses but I really miss the simple, free days of the internet when there weren't quite as many mega corporations and feds policing our every move; the times when you could still find ad-free music on YouTube without paying a subscription, or when the threat from torrenting were some fishy toolbars rather than a letter in the mail. More and more its becoming an extension of the world away from our keyboards, rather than the escape it once was. By no means was it paradise, but like the wild west, there was a sense of freedom and oppottunity. When they take away our right to meme, where else may we express our true thoughts?
People say that EU is undemocratic and shit, while they themselves don't participate in EU parliament elections - which are important, because the said parliament has to approve proposed legislature (that is later sent to the council); it also votes on the President, that's been put out by the member states (In European Council); said President then has to nominate vice-presidents, and assemble a team of comissioners, who also have to be approved by parliament My source is here https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/institutions-bodies/european-commission_en#composition https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/institutions-bodies/european-parliament_en#what_does_the_parliament_do?
Fucking this.
The final vote on the whole directive by JURI is recorded by name (you can find it here, it was 14:9 with 2 abstentions). But the directives contain hundreds of amendments and each has to be voted on, which obviously takes hours even with some crazy fast reading, so only the result gets recorded in those cases (even with electronic voting I think). This was just a projection. The actual (observed) votes by the JURI commitee (not the EP yet!) can be found in the link posted by Lolkork above.
ECR are soft Eurosceptics, the group was founded by the UK Conservatives under David Cameron. ENF and EFDD is where the real nutters are (UKIP, AfD, Lega Nord)
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