So, Britain is leaving the EU. · 7:54am Jun 24th, 2016
To which I can only say, thank God. For two reasons:
1. Maybe the talking heads here in Ireland will finally stop howling about how Ireland will explode if Britain leaves.
To which I can only say, thank God. For two reasons:
1. Maybe the talking heads here in Ireland will finally stop howling about how Ireland will explode if Britain leaves.
A quick note on the first three tragedies. Firstly, it was the working classes who voted for us to leave because they were economically disregarded, and it is they who will suffer the most in the short term. They have merely swapped one distant and unreachable elite for another.
European politics is a subject which I have quite a lot to say about, but which I know most Fimfiction readers don’t care about quite as much about as I do. So I don’t blog too much about it, but given the importance of the coming referendum, it deserves a post.
If there's any stories on this website you really like, you might want to take a day or two to download them for posterity before June 20th rolls around. My stories included.
It's been a good ride, y'all. But today, Articles 11 and 13 of the EU Copyright Directive passed with no amendments. We're likely about to see a massive purge of user-generated content if it even has a 'risk' of violating copyright due to the implementation of bots and algorithms meant to delete anything that 'could possibly' violate copyright in an attempt to keep the now-liable web platforms that host our content safe from lawsuits.
On September 12, the EU is going to bring back Article 13 (As well as Article 11 and the rest of the EU Copyright Directive) into negotiations.
(So, I'm going to talk about Article 13 and shit again. If you want to skip all the political talk and the jargon about what A13 threatens to do and how it might affect us - even outside the EU - hit Ctrl-F and search for "***" without quotations)
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/article-13-eu-lawmakers-vote-on-controversial-copyright-law.html
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/article-13-eu-copyright-directive-memes
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3035406/eu-rejects-article-13-article-11-copyright-law
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/5/17535874/eu-copyright-law-article-11-13-rejected-first-vote
WE DID IT ...For now