DAY OF INFAMY: E.U. BANS MEMES AND VOTES AGAINST BASED HUNGARY

The EU Parliament votes.

Many decent people have had doubts about Britain's decision to leave the European Union, but all those doubts must have been blown away yesterday when the EU Parliament voted not only to ban memes but also to punish Hungary for its extremely sensible immigration policies.

The insane votes, carried by the Liberal and Leftist members of the EU Parliament, took place at the present session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

The vote to ban memes was contained in Articles 11 and 13 of the new EU Copyright Directive, dubbed by opponents the "hyperlink tax" and the "meme killer."

Article 11 would require internet companies and websites to pay news outlets for quoting their content and possibly even for linking (YES, LINKING!!!!!) to it, although there is still some ambiguity about the linking, as part of the badly written clause says something about publishing "insubstantial parts of a press publication" being okay, without bothering to offer a definition. No one is sure if that means a hyperlink, a snippet, a sentence, or  even a word?

But it's Article 13 which has generated the most controversy, as this would require web giants to automatically filter ANY material that contains tiny bits of copyrighted material — i.e. musical samples, clips from videos, and photographic images — uploaded on their platforms, unless they have been specifically licensed. This suggests that parody songs, gifs taken from movies, or photos altered to make funny memes could be affected. 

The various platforms will therefore be forced to comply by setting up filters to block any non-copyrighted material. There will also be copyright claims by "copyright trolls," followed by the elimination of smaller websites which cannot afford the costs of dealing with all this Kafkaesque bullshit. 

Attempts to add a meme-saving clause failed because it was argued that the kind of AI-powered algorithms that would be needed to carry out the filtering operation would not be able to recognise memes.

Believe it or not, this clusterfuck passed by 428 (62%) to 226 (32%), which goes to show how many internet-illiterate boomer cucks sit in the EU Parliament.

Full of boomers who don't know what the fuck they're doing.

Another interesting point is how UK MEPs voted. On this issue, 31 voted against, while 36 voted in favour. 

UKIP and Conservative MEPs were supposed to vote against, while Labour ordered its MEPs to vote for it. However, there was a large number of rebels from the Conservative Party, and even a couple from UKIP and the Ulster Unionist Party.

Just for future reference, here is a full list of the "party traitors" who supported this Kafkaesque bill:

Amjad BASHIR (Conservative Party)
David CAMPBELL BANNERMAN (Conservative Party)
Jacqueline FOSTER (Conservative Party)
Ashley FOX (Conservative Party)
Mike HOOKEM (UKIP)
Sajjad KARIM (Conservative Party)
Rupert MATTHEWS (Conservative Party)
Emma MCCLARKIN (Conservative Party)
Anthea MCINTYRE (Conservative Party)
Baroness Nosheena MOBARIK (Conservative Party)
James NICHOLSON (Ulster Unionist Party)
John PROCTER (Conservative Party)
Kay SWINBURNE (Conservative Party)
Charles TANNOCK (Conservative Party)
Geoffrey VAN ORDEN (Conservative Party)

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In the other shameful vote of the day, the European Parliament voted to "punish" Hungary for what they called "breaches of the EU's core values," meaning its refusal to cuck to mass immigration, fake refugees, and suspicious NGOs promoting the same.

This vote was again carried by the Liberals and Leftists in the EU Parliament by a massive 448 votes to 197.

This time the UK's MEPs voted much more in accordance with their parties' orders, with Labour voting against Hungary of course, while the Conservatives and UKIP voted in support -- all except for three rebels:

Sajjad KARIM (Conservative Party)
Baroness Nosheena MOBARIK (Conservative Party)
Charles TANNOCK (Conservative Party)

It is notable that two of these traitors are of non-European origin, while Tannock is a dual UK and Irish citizen, which may have had something to do with his vote. So, don't let them tell you ethnicity doesn't influence voting behaviour. It clearly does. 

Although censured by the European Parliament, Hungary is unlikely to face much in the way of punishment. The ultimate sanction would be the suspension of Hungary's voting rights, but this is unlikely as Poland would veto any such move.

The key point to note here is that in both votes the UK MEPs voted radically differently from their European colleagues.

While both votes had massive majorities in the European Parliament, among UK MEPs it was a different story. They only voted narrowly for the Copyright Directive, while they rejected the vote on Hungary. 

This in itself is proof that Brexit was the right thing to do. Maybe countries like Hungary that clearly don't share the "values" of the Eurocrats are thinking the same thing now.

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