Im not sure if youve talked about your feelings on article 11/13, but I was curious about your opinions on it.

These articles enforce that websites need to be proactive in dealing with copyright infringement, and even used Youtube’s Content ID system (which itself has headaches associated with it at most) as an example. Websites are required to have these measures put in place.

Websites like Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook have already had these systems in place for years. Tumblr, for example, has strict limitations on video uploads (100Mb, 5 Minutes) specifically to make it difficult to pirate Movies and TV Shows and already scans Audio uploads to prevent music piracy.

We’ve already been living with the requirements of Article 13 in particular for a very long time and haven’t noticed.

The idea that it’s going to ban memes and cripple free-expression has long been an exaggerated talking point pushed by alt-right Youtubers to further try and discredit the European Union, which gets pushed further be reactionary anti-copyright loudmouths who don’t understand copyright beyond “it annoys people.”

As someone who has to work with Copyright Law every day, I know better.