IllusionLover 7,549 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Here's a screenshot: It translates to: Spoiler "Dear reader: On July 5, 2018, the plenary of the European Parliament will vote on whether to proceed with a proposal for a directive on copyright. This, if approved, would significantly damage the open Internet we know today. Instead of updating copyright laws in Europe and promoting the participation of all citizens in the information society, the directive would threaten online freedom and impose new filters, barriers and restrictions to access the Web. If the proposal were approved in its current version, actions such as sharing a news item on social networks or accessing it through a search engine would become more complicated on the Internet; Wikipedia itself would be at risk. So far, dozens of relevant people in the field of information technology have been strongly opposed to this proposal - among them, the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, and the Internet pioneer, Vinton Cerf, 169 academics, 145 organizations for human rights, press freedom, scientific research and technological development; and the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that promotes, among other projects for free knowledge, this encyclopedia. For these reasons, the community of Wikipedia in Spanish has decided to darken all the pages of the encyclopedia before and during the voting of the text, that is, until 10 o'clock (UTC) on July 5. We want to continue offering an open, free, collaborative and free work with verifiable content. We call on all members of the European Parliament to vote against the current text, to open it up for discussion and to consider the numerous proposals of the Wikimedia movement to protect access to knowledge; among them, the elimination of articles 11 and 13, the extension of the freedom of panorama to the whole EU and the preservation of the public domain. In other countries of the Spanish-speaking world, such as Colombia and Mexico, the Wikipedia community has recently opposed similar proposals. We ask you to keep abreast of their development and support this effort. For more information on the campaign in the European Parliament and how to act, visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_vote_in_2018/en. You can follow the communication in social networks with the tags #WikipediaSeApaga, #SalvemosInternet and #SaveYourInternet." The Spanish Wikipedia community" Here's a thread with more info: The link to Wikipedia's spanish website also you can't acess to anything it just shows the statement 13 | this is my dancefloor i fought for, your voice is louder, it echoes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatislaps 34,854 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 I voted against that law.... it was very sneakily passed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kulture Kiari 3,433 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Isn't it the same as the law that was almost passed here in the USA? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florian 20,017 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 5 minutes ago, RubberHeartt said: Isn't it the same as the law that was almost passed here in the USA? What law are you refering to? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iCpro 14,846 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Is this the law that people are saying will ban memes 08, 09, 11, 13, 16, 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamonster 1,786 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Oh so that's why I couldn't read what i was looking up earlier I was dense and didn't even read the wall of text, just got annoyed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weed 78,890 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 nvm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reginald 13,841 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Whatever corner of this planet we're from, we need to protect and VOTE for (as much as we're locally able) our free access to the internet including GagaDaily All of us are a community Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie 2,518 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Qué está pasando? Alguien puede explicarme? Hoy no pude buscar en wiki mi tarea por nada más What if tomorrow I see you again? Should I say that I used to love you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kulture Kiari 3,433 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Florian said: What law are you refering to? https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/technology/net-neutrality-repeal.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreu 37,216 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Thank God I already finished High School Jk, this is worrying Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
voidfigure 1,612 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Wikipedia has been closed in Italy too wtf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagzus 22,967 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 2 hours ago, RubberHeartt said: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/technology/net-neutrality-repeal.html Similar but not ENTIRELY, net neutrality is about capitalists being able to make the internet and dies within itself and access to said sites and services into a restricted and payable service. Meaning you would have to purchase more expensive plans from internet providers to use certain things say you’d have to pay an extra $30 a month to use social media sites, individual sites could independently charge you a fee per month just to access their content (think how Kim K does this for her web content) etc Article 13 restricts and clamps down on the use of copyrighted material available to the public, it would make sites like Wikipedia and google images restricted or heavily controlled as a base example. You would have to pay for liscenses to use such material instead. For example Wikipedia in the EU would most likely end up having to be a paid service for the information, and if you’re found even posting copyrighted material online you could get suspended, warned or even worse sued. An example is the candid paparazzi photography company who wanted to sue LadyGagaNow for $100k PER candid image they posted and reuploaded untagged and uncredited to their social media and their gallery if they didn’t take the content down and promised to NEVER repost that specific companies material again. Same happened to gagamonster96 on twitter too, he’s been suspended multiple times now because a company has been reporting him for posting their images by searching through his tweets and reporting tweets from back in 2011 with BTW era candids he’s posted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagzus 22,967 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 6 hours ago, iCpro said: Is this the law that people are saying will ban memes Yes that would happen also, because in order to evade copyright you must change 80% of the content to make it original Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monster4life231 4,304 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Can somebody explain the benefits and negatives without a biased point of view please. spread peace - #MJInnocent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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