Dear Alison,
[dear everyone, hi, I'm Bernd Fiedler, working as project manager public
policy at Wikimedia Deutschland (DE) and supporting Dimi in his awesome
brussels action]
I would like to highlight the issue of personalizing the mails and tweets
to the MEPs.
Some Pro-Art13/JURI-Draft-MEPS (and all Pro-Art-13/JURI-Draft-Lobbyists)
are calling out on create.refresh, communia and the mozilla landing page,
which has similar functionality, and its mail template as serving robot
campaign, for the bureaus of the MEPs are receiving a hell of a lot
<https://twitter.com/mepassistants/status/1016295549564342277> of identical
mails ("unprecedendet
<https://twitter.com/why0hy/status/1011561027094315009> spam campaign").
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So there's three talking points to contra any campaign coming from our side
(civil society):
1. it's fake news <https://twitter.com/LauKaya/status/1013804628750815236> and
misinformation
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2. it's google-funded
<https://www.ft.com/content/a8031d7a-78a0-11e8-bc55-50daf11b720d> somehow,
astroturfed
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3. it's not people, it's robots
<https://twitter.com/netopiaforum/status/1016361884696678401>
As a consequence, on twitter the Anti-Uploadfilter-Campaigners startet
#notarobot and #1in1million to show their face. We also should at least
highlight the people behind the individual mails.
A short paragraph about Name / Location / Occupation / Expertise and an
individual subject line are imho a must-do when designing the landing page.
However you guys (doing a great job, btw, loved the prototype) will build
it, via form or via big red label above/next to the template, people should
be nudged or rather urged to make this mail their mail at least in the
first paragraph.
All the best from Berlin,
Bernd Fiedler
Am Mi., 29. Aug. 2018 um 03:50 Uhr schrieb Allison Davenport <
adavenport(a)wikimedia.org>gt;:
*Hello everyone,This week, we re-published a blog post[1] in English that
is a translation/adaptation of a post on the WMDE blog[2] on the technical
pitfalls of automatic content filtering. As we have mentioned before[3], a
regulatory mandate like Article 13 of the proposed EU Copyright Directive
which would require similar filters to be applied to nearly all content
uploaded online would only exacerbate the types of problems that our guest
author experienced here.We would also like to take this opportunity to
update you on our efforts to promote a positive vision of copyright law in
Europe in the weeks leading up to the EU Parliament’s September 12 vote on
amendments to the Copyright Directive. We have been working closely with
community leaders from across Europe to learn what materials the
communities need from us and how we can unify our message across Europe.As
a result of these discussions, we have decided to focus many of our efforts
on building a landing page about EU Copyright reform. This landing page
will allow visitors to look up and contact their MEP via email, phone, or
tweet with a pre-populated script. It will also serve as a central
repository for information about the Wikimedia movement’s perspective on EU
Copyright. This landing page is where all of our future blog posts on this
topic, social media campaigns, and ideally the chapter activities should
send traffic. We will send you an update as soon as that page goes live
with the URL.Other materials we are working on include: a statement from
the Wikimedia Foundation on a positive vision for copyright; a series of
flyers which can be printed and shared in-person or online by the community
when you talk to others about EU Copyright; and some social media
suggestions if you can help us raise awareness ahead of the vote.We look
forward to sharing an update about further ways to get involved in our
policy activities soon! Meanwhile, if you have any questions please direct
them at policy(a)wikimedia.org <policy(a)wikimedia.org> or directly at
jgerlach(a)wikimedia.org <jgerlach(a)wikimedia.org> and
adavenport(a)wikimedia.org <adavenport(a)wikimedia.org>.Best,Allison
DavenportTechnology Law and Policy Fellow, Wikimedia
Foundation[1]https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/27/can-beethoven-send-…
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/27/can-beethoven-send-takedown-requests-a-first-hand-account-of-one-german-professors-experience-with-overly-broad-upload-filters/>
[2]
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2018/08/06/von-einem-der-auszog-das-fuerchten-zu-…
<https://blog.wikimedia.de/2018/08/06/von-einem-der-auszog-das-fuerchten-zu-lernen/>
[3]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/14/dont-force-platforms-to-replace-commu…
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/14/dont-force-platforms-to-replace-communities-with-algorithms/>
*
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