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Francisco Gómez @espectalll@mstdn.io

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People like Julia Reda could be fixing the underlying problems of copyright law in EU. I could be focusing on helping journalists stay safe and uncover corruption and organized crime.

Many other people could be spending their time way more productively.

Instead, we need to focus on this bullcrap so that people who can't even into Internets don't break our main creative outlet, communication channel, our main knowledge base.

Because Axel Springer told them to.

#Art11 #Art13 #SaveYourInternet

Another important take-away from my meetings already: calling MEPs is way more effective than e-mailing them.

E-mailing MEPs with a standard e-mail from a template can actually be counter-productive.

If you can, please *call* your MEPs. You can find your MEP here:
europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map

If you'd rather e-mail, please write two-three paragraphs in your own words, from your e-mail address. Even if it's not as slick as the template, it will work way better!

#Art11 #Art13 #SaveYourInternet

I'm in Strasbourg, lobbying hard. Updates soon, but was able to talk to Axel Voss, the main guy behind the current (bad) versions of #Art11 and #Art13. Doing my best to #SaveYourInternet.

Lessons from today:
- Pro-Art11/Art13 MEPs do not know how copyright law works (no surprises there, the copyright law is a mess!)
- Wikimedia Commons is a very good example of a service that could suffer very much.
- As during #ACTA, MEPs are not entirely against sitting down and discussing the issues.

@espectalll The fediverse as a whole needs to be so inherently cool that people are compelled to come here on their own prerogative. One day, maybe, one day.

If you're curious, this is in a thread of a Youtube video talking about the legitimacy and benefits of immigration, where some are commenting if the people who make the channel should talk next time about Sweden "welcoming too many refugees".

I don't know who this guy is, but the verified tick makes it simultaneously funnier and depressing.

"seems like creators youtube is islam and postmodernist"

this is now officially my favorite comment of all time

Maybe I could be more frequently on Twitter now? They still haven't broke the third-party clients so I don't see that much of an issue using it? The people following me there don't seem that interested in what I have to say, though.

Let's be honest, none of my followers on any platform care :thinking_happy:

Apparently people aren't convinced yet and won't switch to Mastodon

understandable have a nice day

oh, BTW, I spend last two days trying to debug and fix a laptop which had a shitton of BSoD's

it ended up being the charger but I installed Debian anyway lmao (Windows was broken already, regardless)

Time to start working on the stuff I hoped to work on this Summer...