Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/08/delete-article-13.html
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Remember chat rooms? And remember how chat rooms protected our children by censoring naughty words? And remember how long it took kids to figure out the filter and go a-r-o-u-n-d it?
(Also, you may remember how it blackballed anybody named Dick, but it was fine to say “orgy” because it never occurred to anybody to put that on the list.)
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I cannot seem to find a way to contact the people responsible for the ‘Save Your Internet’ site to tell them that when I enter my country, as instructed, the list of MEPs generated starts in Scotland, includes a couple in the Midlands and a few in London. What it is NOT is a list of all UK MEPs, so I cannot select those in my area and send them the form letter that says “… as my MEP …”
@doctorow I will try to tell ORG about this, as they seem involved, but if you know anyone linked to this, perhaps mention it quietly?
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Even a broke Britain is right twice a day.
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I used to babysit a kid who spent a lot of time on Club Penguin, and their auto-censoring was bonkers. You couldn’t talk about eating crackers, say that something was spooky, or mention raccoons.
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Start censoring the entire legal and other corpus of the rule’s architects and of the reps who voted it in using bogus copyright claim and take-down mechanisms established by the very rule itself.
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I keep thinking of Youtube, and how they keep flagging things as copyrighted material despite it being public domain, a different performance, bird song…
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The Save your Internet site offers a selection of the most relevant MEPs for the file, considering the Committees they sit on in the European Parliament. If you want a tool that gives you all the UK MEPs to write to, the Open Rights Group has a specific one against Article 13 for the UK https://action.openrightsgroup.org/say-no-article-13s-censorship-machine
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Then the site should not say/imply that I can contact MY MEP (it clearly says “email your MEP”) when I click for a list, and make clearer that I will be offered a list of ‘relevant’ MEPs not as in ‘relevant because you typed in a country’ but as in ‘relevant because they sit on a committee’. But thanks muchly for the clarification.
ETA @c4c Did you take out an account just to tell me this? 
Thanks and welcome to BB if so.
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Spooky cracker-eating raccoons are the worst.
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Not deliberately.
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Damn it, are we breaking the Internet again?
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It’ll be fine in a minute.
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What happens if people start using ROT13 on a hex dump of the Beyonce songs before uploading?
“Kill the Black Box for Jesus.”
To give credit where it is due; pitifully naive string substitution has been ranked as the #1 threat to our consbreastutional rights to free speech since the days of dialup.
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Thanks for the welcome, tanks for caring and sorry for the confusion
Especially if they were ■■■■■.
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Set up a bot farm to crawl the web and automatically file copyright claims on everything it sees, thus censoring the entire internet in a continent-wide DDOS until they repeal it? Niiiice
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@doctorow Is there a viable alternative to using the internet? Is there a sort of parallel computing universe that you know of?
