Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20181106011917/@comment-32647310-20190401151316

AdmiralWhill wrote: I have a question for this KC Wiki staff members... Are you guys getting tired editing this wiki just for this april fools and by the next week they going to re-edit back to normal again?

This page is hard hours of work  dude... Not a member of the staff, but I pay attention to the conversations on discord; the long and short of it is that all of this is managed via templates. It is just that easy to make the changes via a script that edits each template and click 'go'. ...not that much work in the slightest...

Rear Admiral Natsumi Tanigawa wrote: Seriously, have you actually read anything from the actual Directive yourself, or did you only absorb hearsay and the crazy claims peddled by Google, the campaigns it is funding, and a bunch of activists? You'd know immediately this was an April Fools joke otherwise as:

- Article 13 does not include any provisions for criminal charges to users of a platform

- any hypothetical filter would have to rely on a claim and information by DMM/Kadokawa, who would have to want to have this material removed from this platform in the first place (A13.8)

- unlike the current status quo, A13 actually gives users not only a right to appeal, move to arbitration, or even sue the platform before courts, it also establishes a responsibility to ensure that works exempted from copyright to remain available (A13.5 and A13.8)

- this platform does not fulfil the criteria for A13 to apply (Annex 37a, definition on targeted services)

- A13 is not yet law in any single EU country anyways

Not sure it's funny that this wiki joins in spreading political misinformation, indirectly driving a corporate agenda... It's an April Fool's gag that is poking fun at some of the absurdity of Article 13, but also the fact that this very site had to fight a (short, though very vocal) battle regarding a DCMA takedown. People capeable of critical thought would also note that Article 13 would hold little effect on sites hosted and managed outside of the EU...much like how US Net Neutrality laws (or the lack thereof) would not affect users or sites in other countries. This all being said, there *are* legitimate criticisms that have been brought up by these big tech firms, but these mostly relate to the small companies that would be affected and don't have the resources to fall into compliance.