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Wed 12 Sep 2018 10:14PM

[post - published] Statement after the 12/09 vote in the EU Parliament on Copyright

RVE Renaud Van Eeckhout Public Seen by 20

Today's vote was lost, and I wanted to have a reaction on that. I didn't want to make one more article about why we should have voted against, etc, this has been done by many people already and... they have not been heard.

So the draft I made is a probably more accusing than our previous statements, and the press is pointed at clearly. We cannot have a healthy debate without a press doing their job, and they didn't do it. Who is going to say it, if not us, we who were insulted by them?
So I wanted to take the opportunity to say that, and remind everyone that the fight is not lost, and even if today's vote had been a success, we would have had to keep on fighting no matter what.

Here the draft : https://pad.pirateparty.be/p/copyrightlaw-statement

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Renaud Van Eeckhout Thu 13 Sep 2018 5:29PM

We also have a wiki page for that (not sure you knew about it) : https://wiki.pirateparty.be/SaveYourInternet

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Ilja Thu 13 Sep 2018 5:34PM

Ah, I didn't know that. We've been doing double work then :confused:

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koen_v Thu 13 Sep 2018 7:32AM

Does the text need a translation to dutch? If so, I volunteer (& if so, please give me a sign when the text is ready)

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Renaud Van Eeckhout Thu 13 Sep 2018 7:58AM

I think it's too early yet to start the translation, many things could still be changed. But thank you already for your contribution!

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Renaud Van Eeckhout Thu 13 Sep 2018 6:52PM

To illustrate the article, we need a good image. As we talk about copyright, nothing better than a meme.

Any idea for a caption? Something like "When you have no idea what you're doing, but you follow the lobby anyway" for example

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Ilja Thu 13 Sep 2018 7:02PM

Why not just the one you posted on fedi?

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Renaud Van Eeckhout Thu 13 Sep 2018 7:05PM

The one with "The European Parliament just killed the internet" ?

I think it's an exaggeration => it hasn't happened yet (but will in 2019), it's not "the internet" but the internet in Europe, and it doesn't kill it but affects it (very) badly. I believe talking about "killed the internet" doesn't help us because it's very easy to demonstrate it's wrong.

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Ilja Thu 13 Sep 2018 7:32PM

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HgO Thu 13 Sep 2018 8:25PM

My contributions are in this Mastodon thread : https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/web/statuses/100720141450500619

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Ilja Fri 14 Sep 2018 3:55PM

Trying to create a meme and make it go viral, so you can use it in an article :thinking:

Is that what they call Astroturfing :sunglasses:

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