Memes.  Memes are great.  They’re awesome.  Wanna know what’s better?  Not getting thrown in jail for using freedom of speech.

Well, too late for Europe.  It’s already been happening, such as with Count Dankula and the Nazi dog.  Oh, and with Tommy Robinson,too, you know, the guy who was almost killed by an Islamist in prison.  But neither of those cases have anything to do with Article 13.  Article 13 is a mess.  A really big mess.  Basically, the EU is claiming that it is going to be a safeguard against copyright infringement on the internet.  And that’s what it is, until you look deeper.  It is going to basically get rid of fair use in the EU.  Memes using pictures or short clips from a movie or a tv show may be taken off of social media sites due to algorithms made by the sites to detect copyrighted media.  This won’t only affect the EU, though.  People all over the world will be affected, even though fair use laws differ in every country!  Youtube already arbitrarily takes down videos that are under fair use according to U.S. law, videos made by U.S. citizens in the U.S., claiming copyright infringement because of their terrible system of assessing copyright claims.  Imagine how bad it will be without any human interaction!  Horrible!  The world isn’t imploding on itself.  But it can sure as hell feel like it is.  God Bless.