This Spongebob meme is banned on Facebook for “hate speech”
Facebook’s upload filter is automatically punishing Facebook users for uploading a harmless Spongebob Squarepants meme.
Mainstream media organizations are republishing and selling The Mueller Report as ebooks for easy profit
Rehashed versions of the report are coming to an Amazon page near you.
The Art of The Meme: HBO does’t like President Trump using Game of Thrones references
It’s not the first time President Trump has been warned against skirting the line on the use of intellectual property.
European Council passes Articles 11 and 13 of the EU Copyright Directive in final vote
19 countries backed the Directive, six voted against it, and three abstained. All EU member states will now be required to write the Directive into their national law by 2021.
TV network Starz uses fake copyright claims to censor tweets and criticism from TorrentFreak
Starz used false copyright claims to censor a tweet from TorrentFreak that was reporting on a Starz TV show being leaked online. TorrentFreak called out this censorship in a response article and Starz doubled down by using further bogus claims to censor this response article on Twitter.
YouTube starts issuing community guidelines strikes on playlists
YouTube issued a community guidelines strike against Sheila Allen for a playlist which contained videos from other creators and none of her own content.
UK political commentator Carl Benjamin announces UKIP MEP campaign and says he will work to rescind Article 13
The political commentator also said he will challenge all manifestations of radical leftism as he finds them and expose them to the public via his YouTube channel so the public can see what EU officials are doing behind closed doors.
PewDiePie signs exclusive deal with decentralized blockchain-based live streaming platform DLive
PewDiePie’s first stream will be on April 14 and he says that he’ll be streaming on DLive “very frequently.”
r/Piracy deletes 10 years of posts after Reddit Legal threatens to ban the subreddit
Reddit Legal said that the subreddit was generating too many copyright infringement notices and would be banned if it didn’t address the problem, despite claims that many of these notices were false.
Article 13 and Article 11 last vote confirmed for April 15
This is the last chance to stop Articles 11 (the link tax) and 13 (the meme ban/upload filter) of the EU Copyright Directive. If Germany, Sweden, or the UK oppose the Directive in the EU Council, there may be further negotiations and amendments before it’s passed.
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