European Union's Articles 11 & 13 will ruin the internet
The European Union is set to enact legislation that will make
copyright fair use illegal. It is so far reaching that even simple
things like memes and tweets with quotes in them will be illegal.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Google,
Wikipedia,
YouTube, and even the United Nations have
condemned this legislation.
If this legislation passes it will force small businesses like Tabletop.Events
to stop serving customers in the EU. Worse, if this sort of legislation passes
it will likely influence laws in the United States, and could cause us to shut
down entirely. To be clear, we do not violate copyright law, but this law would
hold us accountable if someone uploads something to our site that violates
copyright law. As a small business we simply do not have the resources to spend
the $100,000,000+ needed to build a copyright filtering AI the way YouTube has,
and even their AI is not perfect.
If you want to maintain a free and fair internet use the hashtag #SaveYourInternet
and contact your local government officials telling them you do not want Article 13 to pass.
