Please sign this petition. Article 13 going through would be awful. Not just for Europeans. Please share this. It going through would be a really really bad thing for everyone.
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.
Chinese fandoms are currently experiencing an actual Purge right now. Every fandom. Accounts are getting banned, all shipping wars has been put on hold. Everyone’s hiding their porn and moving them to ao3.
There’s reward money involved. A recent update to censorship law raised the maximum reward for reporting illicit online materials to 50k yuan (7000 USD), so some people are reporting porn like crazy right now, and apparently, BL fandoms have been especially targeted, where some even more tame things got maliciously misreported.
Anyway, it’s a mess. Content creators are just disappearing off the face of the internet left and right. Expect an influx of Chinese porn fics on AO3.
Well… if there’s one thing out of this mess… nothing bands warring ships/fandoms like censorship…
Hey guys, if some awesome person in China translated your fic into Chinese or created fan art, you really should spread the word! This could affect someone you know!
This is also a call out to all you fuckwits that repost art on Tumblr, twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Your negligence hurts people.
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This is literally shitty and it has become worse and worse
Hopefully it will stop before long but just take care of how yiou take your stances on ao3 or what’s happening with Tumblr
A chinese homoerotic novel writer is sentenced to 10 years to prison because of “illegal publication”* and “spread of obscene materials”. After that, China government set up bounty for reporting “illegal publication”. Everyone on weibo, lofter etc. is deleting thier posts.
China is using this act as a way of controling the freedom of speech, it’s not just a matter of “no homo”. They just use the fandom content creators as an easy target and a way to scare people off from writing and publishing things the government doesn’t like.
China is living the Nineteen Eighty-Four novel. Please don’t post chinese fan works, especially not with their original chinese artists/writers right now. You could literally ruin their life.
* in China every book has to be approved by the government before
publication. Anything against the government or with “the wrong idea” will be banned. Their government didn’t pay too much attention to fan books before, but in recent years, they are tightening their grip on their people. Fandom and their activities as a whole has become a target because 1) fandom and their creative community make self-publishing a thing and China doesn’t like that the people know it’s easy to print stuffs (to spread unwanted information/ideas etc. 2) fandom and their creative community is the easiest and obvious target because of the general anti LBGT+ envirnment, general public will support the gornment for “cleansing the society from obscenity” withouth thingking about 1)
i also think intelligence is way too glorified and its seen as like the pinnacle of human worth when traits like compassion and goodness factor way more into our actual decisions+interactions
Intelligence is glorified because it means power which people have been seeking from the beginning of their history. Conquering new land, taking power over other people, whole world, control animals, being able to move faster than any animal, to fly despite not having wings, to be able to travel beyond our planet. Intelligence is about using your knowledge in the most efficient way, to achieve greatness, superiority in some field, to go further, faster and beyond everything we knew until some time ago. Intelligence is what we can see by it’s way it effect whole society lives. Intelligence is about constant change, evolution and becoming better.
While this poor compassion and goodness is treated like something unuseful, unimportant and insignificant. Because in race of greatness the most important are your results, your project, your intelligence to use everything to achieve your goal sometimes even if it means forgetting about other humans. Sometimes it means using people’s good traits – in the good or/and bad way. Compassion is for those, who seek peace, to seek stability in relationship, who always think about how it effect others, who are able to put humans wellbeing above their own good, their evolution, their evolution. And sometimes it helps achieve you goal when it’s purpose is for being good.
But people were always been those who were ready to bend nature for their own will, for their own benefits, who are always ready to show God middle finger and fly through stars just to show him that they don’t just fly – we, as people are beyond.
Problem is, people see compassion as something what keeps them on the ground, what makes them vulnerable in others eyes, what stops their crazy pursuit of greatness. People always wanted more of anything, but they never had enough heart for each other. And that’s our strong and weak side – we can work despite cost, but not paying attention to others is slowly destroying what we created from inside.
The real, pursued intelligence should have compassion and goodness written between it’s traits, because it’s what makes it stronger, what let it last longer, but people forget it. They just want more of everything, but what if it means using drastic methods? For them compassion is on their way.
Real intelligence have goodness in it. And that’s what’s making it more superior over clear goodness – if your intelligent you’re know how to be better… better. How to help people in more efficient way. So yeah, intelligence is really better than plain compassion, because without intelligence you wouldn’t be able to help people in right way. Cause when you see poor homeless people giving them money isn’t right solution. You have to give them purpose to fight for their wellbeing. Give them hobby, give them job, give them psychological support.
Without intelligence compassion is useless.
Without compassion intelligence lead us to more phenomenal disaster.
We should stop think that some traits are superior over other ones. Inteligent intelligence have goodness in it. Goodness without intelligence may give a lot of happiness in daily interactions, but in bigger scale only lead to bigger chaos.
in conclusion, dont let anyone on this dumb hellsite tell you you’re not lgbt. nobody in the real world cares. the discourse only exists on tumblr. so go out there and be you’re ace ass self and dont worry about the bullshit on this site.
Ever since I found out that the UNITED NATIONS include asexuals (and aromantics!) I don’t give a shit about the discourse™ on this hellsite anymore
(document published by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees)
[In October] “New York became the first city in the nation to pass a law offering gender-neutral birth certificates. The new policy will go into effect on January 1, 2019, and calls for the creation of a third gender marker — X — in addition to the current options of M and F.
The new law also mandates that people be allowed to choose their gender marker when applying for amended birth certificates, replacing a previous requirement that applicants provide letters from medical and mental health practitioners confirming their gender identity.
“New Yorkers should be free to tell their government who they are, not the other way around,” New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio said in a press release. “This new legislation will empower all New Yorkers — especially our transgender and gender nonbinary residents — to have birth certificates that better reflect their identity, and it furthers the City’s commitment to defending the rights of our LGBTQ community.”
THIS WILL AFFECT THE WAY EVERYONE USES THE INTERNET!
DO YOUR RESEARCH!
CALL/EMAIL YOUR MEPs!
KEEP THIS HORRIBLE LAW FROM GETTING PASSED!!!
Just fyi this will likely affect non-Europeans as well. It’s easier for a website like YouTube to just restrict ALL copyright instead of just sectioning off what they need to. They’ll probably let bigger YouTubers still operate, but small time content creators will be a thing of the past.
Net-neutrality flashbacks of not caring
I’m European. So if I stop creating, you know why.
People that get invested in fiction and examine fictional lore need to learn how to tell the difference between which lore is actually important to the series and which lore is an excuse for something.
If Dwarven women are capable of growing beards, but have cultural reasons not to, that is an excuse that they made not to give them beards.
If a female character can only wear skimpy clothing for some given reason, that is an excuse to sexualize her.
If an organization can only be populated men, that is often an excuse to not have to create female characters.
Its all made up. It isn’t a foundation of the universe that they can’t control. They wrote it to be like that.
Since this post is back again: you cannot explain away a doylist question (”Why did the author make it so the dwarven women not have beards?”) with a Watsonian answer (”because they have a cultural reason not to”).
A great explanation of the terms here-
Hey everyone who consumes any fictional media at all. This is so very important to understand.
Ignisfilimundi 
