Meredith L. Patterson @maradydd@mastodon.social

"I like to add � and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug"
https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/722565868719177729

@rysiek @alcinnz
<snark>
Help!

The (well organized) people must not be allowed to sway the vote of MEPs to reduce the sad, weak influence which "might" come from the publishing industry. </snark>

THIS IS IMPORTANT!

We need people to call their MEPs. Most importantly:
- Romanian S&D:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=RO&politicalGroup=4280
- Romanian EPP:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=RO&politicalGroup=4269
- British S&D:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=GB&politicalGroup=4280
- British ECR:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=GB&politicalGroup=4271
- Italian S&D:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=IT&politicalGroup=4280
- Polish EPP:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=PL&politicalGroup=4269

Please report back (in a private message, preferably) what they say! This would help us a LOT!

#Art11 #Art13 #SaveYourInternet

If you cannot call, if you feel uncomfortable calling, this is understandable, please do not feel bad! And apologies for putting you under pressure in case you felt that way.

I hate calling people. I am lucky enough to be able to overcome this, and I try. But if you can't or won't that's entirely fine!

Any support counts. Support Wikimedia, EDRi, Panoptykon Foundation, Mozilla. Many, many others.

#Art11 #Art13 #SaveYourInternet

The calling needs to continue. Additional group to focus on -- Portuguese S&D: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=PT&politicalGroup=4280

More groups in the parent toot.

What they need to hear is:
- Copyright Directive's Articles 11 and 13 are a danger to the free Internet
- Copyright needs fixing, but this is not the way to go
- Please vote AGAINST THE MANDATE tomorrow.

Be polite. Say your name, and who you are. Be respectful.

And #SaveYourInternet from #Art11 #Art13! We can win this!

So it looks like Roe v. Wade isn't long for this world.

Friends, I live near a Planned Parenthood in a liberal state and I have a very nice guest bedroom.

If you or someone you know needs help getting an abortion, if they need a place to stay, please talk to me.

There's a Reddit AMA with a copyright expert on #Art11 #Art13 today: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8ugrow/eu_copyright_ama_we_are_professors_lionel_bently/

If you're unsure what's it all about, join in and read on.

If you have an opinion, take part! /cc @phoe @maradydd

#SaveYourInternet

tired: gender binary
wired: building gender from source

Seems like it's working, kinda.

This week, the EU voted to destroy the Internet as we know it, and on Sunday, Berliners are taking to the streets. Tell your friends! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/wednesday-eu-committee-voted-break-internet-sunday-berliners-take-streets-say-no

MEP Zwiefka voted for Art13 (the copyright upload filters).

I do not think MEP Zwiefka had the explicit license from the publisher of Polityka to publish a reproduction of their article on birdsite:
https://twitter.com/TadeuszZwiefka/status/464020422221389824

Perhaps somebody should point that out to MEP Zwiefka.

So folks, the #article13 and #linktax proposals will be going soon to the EU parlaiment, and if they pass they will become a serious problem for the #Fediverse:
* To automatically filter copyrighted materials, even badly, you need a way to reference those materials. Even our largest instances probably can't afford access!
* Our instances will not be able to afford licenses to link to news sites under the new #LinkTax rules.
Go make some noise at: https://saveyourinternet.eu/
(@gargron)

Had a huddled conversation in the European Parliament with a colleague after the JURI vote trying to work out what #article13 would mean for federated/decentralized services like #mastodon and #ipfs . We’ll need to see the final text which may not be available until next week.

So I've managed to finagle a pass to the European Parliament vote on #article11 and #article13 tomorrow, and with some luck, I will be livetweeting it for EFF. It'll be at 10:30AM CET at @EFFlive@twitter.com. I'm sorry I didn't set up a Mastodon feed, but it's 3AM here now, and I've been kind of busy 😴