Part of my Patreon Post that I didnt want to be deleted by accident, just in case. I’m just paranoid.
Sorry for lack of Patreon Post last week, I forgot about it and when I remembered it, I wanted to just wait for how the EU Parliament votes on the Copyright Directive in the hopes of getting good news… Well everyone by now knows how bad that turned out, because that whole thing got approved and now the EU Council is the only one to be able to stop it at April 9th.
I’ve already been a mental wreck the whole month, this does not make it better at all…
If everything goes South very badly, I will just go to Freenet or Tor hidden Services to host my Stuff, because this mandatory and impossible to implement Censorship goes way too far, and contradicts several other Laws such as the GDPR.
I just want to have a free Forum where people can talk and share their Ideas and Mods, and I dont want to be forced to pay thousands a month just to implement Filters that violate the GDPR, dont even work properly, and are filtering for Stuff that isn’t even supposed to show up on it in the first place, and that as soon as the Forum is older than 3 years! (August 2021 in my case)
This whole thing just illegalizes Free Speech and the ability to host any Website that even remotely allows you to have User Submitted Content such as Comments of any kind for an affordable and reasonable price, without having to rely on Internet Giants like Google (who ofcourse got rid of G+ right before this passed).
And I have read that damn Directive personally to find loopholes, I know how bad it is, especially in conjunction with the GDPR which prevents me from just making a brand new Website every 3 years, because I would have to delete all user Data on the new and the old Site and start from scratch (yep I cant just archive the User Posts on the old Site, isn’t that great).
So the only Solution that would keep me on the regular Internet after August 2021, is flat out Geoblocking all European IP-Addresses on the Forums, and it would also require me to do way more than that, likely forcing me to block VPNs, Proxies and the Tor Browser too, all on a best effort basis, just to be safe…
In case you didn’t know why I added a “Spoken Languages” Field as opposed to a “Location” Field on the Forums, if you told me you’re from Europe I would have to ban you too. Also last time I checked Germany is part of Europe too, so I am banned aswell! Though because I am the Host I would probably have the privilege to access the Site anyways.
If you are in Europe, go voting in May, preferably for a Party that actually keeps up Human Rights, as opposed to the Conservatives. Just get involved with Politics and try to make the EU Parliament less corrupt and better for everyone. I know I for sure will.
Thank you for your Support and for listening to this huge rant.