Article 13 is going into it’s final stages of voting.
If this gets through, it will allow many, many companies to abuse and misuse this article to take down as many memes, fan works, and even other independent creators on sites like YouTube, Facebook, and other websites INCLUDING Tumblr.
THE FAIR USE LAW AND SAFEHARBOR LAW WILL NO LONGER APPLY IN THE U.S OR IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
IT HAS ALREADY PASSED IN SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES.
WE CANNOT ALLOW THEM TO TAKE AWAY WHAT WE BUILT FOR THE INTERNET SO FAR.
So here is what you need to do to drag this article down.
1. Spread the word
I can’t stress this enough. The more attention this gets the more people we can get to take this down.
2. Make your own content
Make your own content on the matter and make sure it is clear to others that Article 13 is bad for every internet user involved.
3. If you live anywhere in Europe, contact your MEPs
Ask them if they approve of the article and why. If they do approve of it, try to convince them in a clear, reasonable, and most sensible way possible that this law is BAD.
The article itself is way to vague about what it’s conveying to its people.
Saying that as long as the use of said internet memes or content is good as long as it’s in “good faith.”
We cannot let some shoddy government tell us what we can and cannot post.
FREE SPEECH IS A HUMAN RIGHT. NOT A PRIVILEGE.
Here’s a video on Article 13 that Film Theory made on the matter. It will explain things better than I can.
THE VIDEO LINKED IS FROM YESTERDAY (24/11 2018) THIS IS ALL FRESH PLEASE SPREAD!
To my fellow ‘mericans that don’t understand Article 13 and why it’s important, watch the video. MatPat breaks is down in a very easy way to understand why it’s important and why it will affect all of us. You might think “naw, I’m not in the EU, doesn’t matter to me” (which is a crappy way of looking at it in the first place) but guess what, it will.
Also, I feel like people are pushing the importance of this to memes, but honestly it goes SO well beyond that.
This is the contact information for the University of Chicago Law School. The author of this FUCKING DISGUSTING PIECE OF SHIT proposal works for them. I do believe it’s time the University heard what we think of their faculty member’s outright advocacy of slavery/indentured servitude.
The University of Chicago Law School 1111 East 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637
That’s for mailing letters. Keep it civil please – universities typically only dig their heels in when they receive hate mail.
Oh, and here’s the info for contacting the employer of the other author – this is for their PR offices:
Tom Conroy Director, Office of Public Affairs & Communications 203-432-1345 tom.conroy@yale.edu
I’ll never not be amused by the fact that I can drop the words “crucifix nail nipples” into a conversation and some of you who have been with me since the livejournal days will join me in the flashbacks, screaming and crying all the way.
I require context. Because this is a very interesting start of a story, and now I need the rest of it. Could I get a link, or a summary, or something? Pretty please?
All right buckle the fuck up kids, it’s the year 2012 and I’ve just been handed what should be an easy editing gig by my senior editor. It’s a vampire erotica story because one of the final Twilight movies is about to come out, and everything is vampires. Everything. I haven’t edited a single thing in months which isn’t about vampires. I am ready, I can do this. So I open the file and notice there’s a typo in the title, which really should have been my first inkling that something horrendous was about to go down, but you see I’m not quite dead inside yet so I carry on, bushy tailed and bright eyed with my faith in humanity intact. It’ll be dead by page 24, but I don’t know that yet. I’m just editing one more vampire boner fest.
The MC is a girl who we’ll call Sue. Sue is a Good Girl™, Sue is Not Like Other Girls™, she is pale and awkward and a virgin and has somehow managed to find herself a Bad Boy™ for a boyfriend. We’ll call him Dickhead.
Now Dickhead as previously stated is a bit of dick, he tries to pressure Sue into sex because he knows she is The One™ but he loves her really so it’s okay. Except it’s not okay because Sue is a Good Girl™ and holding out till marriage which he’s fine with except he’s got such a bad case of blue balls that one night walking home an attractive stranger lures him into an alley with the words “hey stud” and he follows, dick out before she’s even finished her sentence. Well turns out that was a mistake for Dickhead because she’s a vampire, but not just any vampire, a Dick Biting Vampire. So what started out as a skeevy blow job behind a club that he’ll feel bad about in the morning, turns into him being bitten on the dick and drained of his life essence and left for dead. Except DBV fucked up and now he’s a vampire. Are you still with me? Good, cause it’s about to get weirder.
Realizing he is now an abomination, Dickhead flees, becoming a creature of the night and feeding on animals rather than humans to repent for being such an asshole in life. Sue meanwhile is heartbroken, but carries on valiantly with her life and goes to bed each night crying for the loss of her One True Love™ who she would do anything to bring back. Well guess what Sue, Dickhead never really left you! He’s been “instinctively protecting her from rapists” by hiding out on her roof and fighting hobos who try to get to her open window via the fire escape for months now. Because that’s not fucking terrifying at all.
Upon learning of his predicament and how it happened, Sue can do nothing but blame herself. Oh if only she’d let him touch her secret places, then perhaps all of this could be avoided! Meanwhile Dickhead is having another dilemma of his own, realizing too late that his vampire powers have given him super senses and now he can smell her blood and he can’t decide whether he wants to get with her or eat her. And I don’t mean in the French sense. But he is strong! And over comes his base manly vampire instincts and neither rapes not kills her. Hurrah! And this is so romantic that Sue gives it up, but not before she launches into a theory about how in all fairy tales, True Love saves the day, so maybe her magical pure vagina that has never been touched by anyone, not even her, can bring him back to life. So Dickhead being a dickhead agrees and rips her clothes off, but not before he takes one last moment to marvel at the beauty of her purity, because he will never again look on her again and know she is Pure.
If you’ve only vomited once by now, I applaud your resolve.
So they hop on the good foot and do the nasty, except she is literally so pure in spirit, her flesh burns his. And I quote you from memory because these words are burned into my soul: “her breasts bit into his hands, like crucifix nail nipples tearing at
his flesh, but he did not care because he loved her so and couldn’t
stop”
This phrase haunts me. I dread that it will be the last thing I think about on my death bed and my last words will literally be “god fucking dammit” as I die, carrying that mental image with me into the afterlife. My own solace is in knowing that I inflicted it on other people too, like @ahzuri who is somehow still with me after all these years.
When the magical burning sex fails to heal him and leaves her bruised, battered and broken with “a dainty blue bells of bruises around her secret flower” (I am genuinely quoting this, I could never make something as horrendous as this up without being on acid) Dickhead leaves. Yeah. Off he fucks, leaving her to the mercy of the hobos at her window, and into the night to be the true monster he really is. But wait, there’s more. Remember the dick biting vampire? Well turns out she has figured out she made him into a vampire and has also been stalking HIM and is totally jealous of Sue, so tries to kill her. But again Sues Purity saves her, because sex before marriage which was done out of True Love is not a sin, so she is still a spiritual virgin and I’ll be honest, I started drinking heavily at this point and it’s all a bit of a blur.
A fight ensues some pages later after Dickhead returns, realizing the mistake he has made. And he rescues Sue from the Dick Biter, but not before he assaults Dick Biter, and calls her a slut for luring innocent men into alleys cuts her heart out by cutting her breasts off, at which point i screamed “THAT’S NOT HOW YOU REACH THE HEART” and my brain short circuited completely and I have no idea how it ends because I realized there was 30 pages left and my soul couldn’t take it. I emailed the chief editor like ?????!!!!!!????!!!!!! and the book was immediately pulled from the work line and the author dismissed from the publishing house. Turns out she was a friend of a friend and that was how she got the manuscript past our entry levels for requirement.
And that’s the story of how an author sent me death threats for over a month because I stopped her shitty vampire porn from ever seeing the light of day. You’re all fucking WELCOME.
Sorry to bring this searing back into your lives fam, but I feel it’s worth noting that people are tagging this as an “ancient relic” of tumblr text posts and how they’re so happy they see this every year and like guys, I hate to tell you this, but uh, this post is only six months old. I posted in on March 3rd 2016.
It only seems like years because every time you see it you age five years.
right to assembly my ass. this is intimidation. it ain’t gonna be a peaceful demonstration either because neo nazis are a violent terrorist organization
all neo nazis need to be booted out of society. no “freedom of speech” or “right to assemble” bullshit. get the fuck out. I don’t care about their rights, they gave up those rights when they decided they wanted to organize to harass, bully, and ultimately murder Jews and Roma people.
What the FUCK
Like, goyim, I need you to understand: Yom Kippur is one of the holiest days of the year to us. It’s a fasting holiday, a day of repentance and prayer. Compare to Easter or Christmas for scope.
IF THIS AFFECTS YOU, GET A GMAIL ACCOUNT OR SOMETHING AND SET IT AS YOUR EMAIL FOR YOUR TUMBLR PREFS RIGHT AWAY. YOU HAVE TODAY, TOMORROW, AND THURSDAY TO DO SO OR YOU LOSE ACCESS TO YOUR TUMBLR.
A little bit of follow up.
1. This is real, get a freebie email account to use.
2. This is not exactly a “Net Neutrality” issue. This article at Tech Crunch goes into more detail, but it has a lot more to do with disentangling old partnerships that are no longer valid. Those email domains, due to being partnered with Yahoo were granted automatic access to some Yahoo-owned platforms because of the AT&T partnership. this appears to be a side effect of disentangling user databases that weren’t designed to split up cleanly if the Yahoo/AT&T partnership ended – which it has. If anything, this is more a warning about side effects of attempting to create a not-quite-monopoly and it ending. Users are running into an inconvenience because of a messy merging of company proprietary data that now (I assume for legal reasons) must be separated. Rather than a cse of emails being blocked because of a violation of anti-competition practices (which is what it looks like on the surface) it’s actually the result of a changed business deal where an attempt to grow a user base by preventing the need to create new accounts has created a logistics problem. It shouldn’t have happened, but sometimes databases and code aren’t designed to work the way we would like them to, because whomever coded/maintained them never considered this use case..
3. More detail on the change and transferring affected Yahoo accoiunts from AT&T [link]
According to SVD, Nils Bildt does not even live in Sweden. Bildt emigrated from Sweden in 1994 and grew up in Westport, CT, and now runs a security company in the United States.
The shamelessness of this is astounding even by (what have till recently been) typical Fox News standards.
hey, that happened to me too. I just deleted them. I can only imagine how some folks on this website are dealing with it.
At the end of the day, they can’t hurt you. They can’t get you, they can’t hurt you. They can only frighten you.
Always remember you are better than they are, and they are nothing, just parasites begging for attention. Do not give it to them! They do not deserve it.
Stay strong, sweetie. You can get through this.
everyone jewish, please turn off submissions. i woke up to that this morning & threw up because it was so horrible & ended up having a break down that involved crying & my mom coming in to see what was wrong.
*hugs* I wish that there was something I could do to help.
unfortunately, there’s always gonna be people like that in this world- all that can be done is signal boosting.
(hint followers: reblog, be aware, make sure your Jewish followers are aware, too even if you are not Jewish yourself)
We should all be thankful that “anti-thunderstorms” with flashes of extreme darkness (during the day) followed by loud, high-pitch screeches, don’t exist.
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