Only three days left until the big EU wide protests against the new copyright reform on the 23rd of March!
Please continue sharing the petition and the demonstration date! We already reached almost 5 million people to sign the petition and ten thousands of people already openly protested out in the streets!
This is more than just a fight for free speech and against uploadfilter.
We are fighting for our understanding of democracy!
We are fighting for our view of the European Union!
We are fighting so our generation and all the ones to come after us can grow up with an internet that is free for everyone!
We are fighting for an internet where everyone can openly state their opinions on certain content while showing parts of that specific content!
We are fighting for our internet culture which consists to big parts of memes, parody and satire that would be filtered out by an uploadfilter that wouldn’t understand humor or our creativity!
We are fighting for an internet where even beginners will be able to use quotes of copyrighted content or critically say their opinions on news topics without the fear of getting filtered out before their content could even reach a single person!
We are fighting for our understanding of democracy where politicians listen to what their citizens want and not to what big corporations and copyright holders want!
We are fighting against politicans who call us bots and say we where bought by google!
We are fighting against politicians who say we are fake news and we are spreading fake news and unnecessary panic!
We are fighting against politicians who openly lie in our face and later on in secret do something completely different than what they publicly said they would do!
We are fighting against politicans who already moved the final decision date of a crucial debate forward by almost a month and then wanted to move it forward even more because they got scared of our protest and wanted to evade us having a chance to fight for our opinions! (Yes the final decision was first said to be in April but was very quickly moved forward to the end of March and two weeks ago they wanted to quickly move it forward even more to last week!)
We are fighting against politicians who say they want little creators to get more money from big corporations but then set rules that will make it even harder for those small creators to create and spread content while making it even easier for the big corporations to gain money!
We are fighting against politicians who say they want small website providers to have a chance at the game while setting rules that will force millions of small providers to close their websites because they don’t have the resources to make their own or don’t have the money to buy uploadfilter from the big players and the ones that do have this money will only further the fortune of the big ones instead of freely growing to compete with them!
We are fighting against politicians who say Wikipedia is using terroristic measures when they join us in our fight by completely closing off their german website for one day on the 21st of March!
We are fighting against politicians who say we are just small children who don’t read the texts even though they themselves don’t know what exactly those texts consist of!
We are fighting against politicians who don’t publicly share those texts so we have to trust news outlets to share them with us!
We are fighting against politicians who want to move the final decision forward so fast that other politicians don’t even have the text they have to decide upon!
We are fighting against politicians who want to move the final decision forward so fast that the translators weren’t even able to finish their work!
We are fighting against politicians who call us mob after we peacefully but loudly protested!
We are fighting against politicians who don’t properly argue but instead say they have more follower on Twitter during a debate with citizens!
We are fighting against politicians who say they have to force this through now because if not it would take another 3 years to get a new law on the way!
We are fighting against politicians who want to force the internet back into the 20th century instead of making the law fit the already existing internet of the 21st century!
We are fighting for what is right!
We are fighting for our internet!
And we are many!
The internet does not forget!
The internet does not forgive!
We will especially remember this situation in May during the next EU election!
We will remember it the next time we vote for our representatives!
Since tumblr doesn’t properly show posts with links in them in the tags I will reblog this post once with a lot of sources for further information about the petition and the protests. I will also share whatever articles or videos I can find that further and also better explain the situation, what this new copyright reform means and what exactly is so problematic about it.
If you reblog this post (and I really, really hope you do) please only do it by reblogging the version with the links so everyone can easily access them. ;)
If you reblog this post please do so by doing it with this version so we are also spreading links with further informations!
I mostly recollected all these events by memory but you can find almost anything regarding sources for those statements by looking up the twitter accounts of SaveTheInternet and Julia Reda! Anything else will most likely be included in the videos and article I collected over the past few weeks. If you still are unsure about anything or know of any better sources or summaries feel free to add them with a reblog or shoot me a pm! ;)
International Links (mostly Multilingual or at least two languages with one being english)
English Links
German Links
At the end I’d like to use the opportunity to signal boost this by screaming… I mean @ing a few people! It would be very awesome if you can reblog this and maybe you too could @ whoever you think might reach even more people!
@unfugbilder @official-deutschland @officialdorfkind @gemeldetundblockiert @official-german-schulsystem @official-nordrheinwestfalen @official-german-translationen @official-german-gaming @allthingsgerman
We won’t stay quiet and go down without a fight!
We are many and we do not forget!
