So yeah, you sure have all faced such similar situation at least once before in your life (unless you're an infant, but then I wonder how you manage reading this then
): Your day starts really great or average at least, only to have it end in total disaster and distress.
Well, originally, I actually wanted to use the day before to come up with a newfound journal entry that, for once, was actually supposed to contain some more positive elements within, seeing how I forciably had been occupied the previous week(s) before writing up to 40 pages worth of term papers and finally finishing the last on same day before (and thus, for me not really having been able keeping in touch with many things on a larger-global-scale (yeah, will get important in just a moment, hence emphasizing it that way)), only for it to take a full 180° - not in regards towards my own personal corners, fortunately not, but definitely on a far greater public global-scale.
Yes, the day before indeed was and still is one aweful
one in
twofold direction, especially considering not the only events within themselves, but - at least in one direction - their long-term consequences for the future at large.
The first of those two events I'm supposedly referring to that'd come to transpire on the same day would be the burning down of the holy Notré Dame de Paris - unsettling close to disturbing/distressing images and streams that'd go around the world and (for the most part) rattle those witnessing it to the cores of their very being. Yes, that one was, without doubt, a quite heartwrenching sight, a piece of such outstanding art in regards to architecture of the days of the old running danger into completely ending up lost to the flames and even in spite of its temporary rescue now to still endure undescribable damages within. I was once visited it myself with my parents in 2002, so the feelings also hit a good deal closer there.
At the very least, it'll fall much harsher now to watch all features containing the cathedral without those very images hitting close to home now - most prominently this very special known one:
Yep, still aweful (even moreso considering the question
how long this very image in itself will ultimately manage to stay within this entry now for reasons to be yet unveiled)
But even in all darkness and despair, there's still light, has been and will always be there, even at the ends of time. While sorrow and misery run quite deep now in every corner of Paris and large deals of the world (even if it's still left to argue, seeing how places far beyond the US and EU partially have to endure much worse and mainstream media not nearly as much bothering concerning themselves with them, but I digress), the very fact it could still be saved in spite of its damages suffered still provides some comfort and beacon of light as well as positive endurance as determination in mankind's most positive of aspects. Yes, some parts of its long history have now fallen victim to the flames, never to be retrieved, but the very fundament and large parts of its legacy have still been managed to be saved and preserved, so hope still prevails it can ultimately be rebuilt and regain its former glory, again. In either way, my condolensces and thoughts go to those suffering greatly under the whole disaster now in hopes of this being some sort of comfort to them, ultimately.
Unfortunately, I wish the same could be claimed or resolved as easily as the above matter may ultimately turn out to be, for the second event that'd come to take place on that very same day before - albeit a few hours earlier - is as similarily destructive at its core, albeit on a far different meta-level that, at least for part of the world, will ultimately spell a gloomy future now and which, relatively spoken here, happens to make up my overall personal despair far greater than even the above sample (if still tragic in itself and from my view, regardlessly).
So, in that case, it's on the 15th of April that, after a definitely final and irreversible voting between the respective countries now,
Yes, with my own country serving as one of its most prominent supporters as of the last weeks, it's no less thanks to their efforts this very outcome has come to take place now.
Almost 6 million petition-signers, above 200 000 protesters on the streets throughout the EU foolishly declared as 'bots' by either the ignorant or corrupted, claimed to be sponsored by large and influential monopols and companies on the digital market and nothing would ultimately change anything, in the end
(when it wouldn't surprise me that many of said politicans in return are on the highest (hidden) paying roll on those having wanted this outcome since day one, with the entirety of this all merely having turned into an indirect, if still, all-blown out war between larger monopols and companies who want to enforce their will onto their respective adverseries in the ultimate question of who can ultimately exert themselves greater and use their 'puppets' and 'cattle' more effectively; yeah, once more I'll most likely end up on some 'black list' for publicly voicing this out, if not already, but at this point, I've grown to delusioned and broken in that very direction to really care anymore)
That very day has indeed been a dark black one, with the flames of the cathedral on one hand serving as perfect illustration of what's gonna happen with 'our' internet within the next two years ahead (= within the EU) (no, I'm not intending on using said other tragic event for political sake and will clearly separate those two incidents from now on here, just pointing out the potentials for an appearantly fitting metapher there).
In that case, it wouldn't be surprising if many sites and contents, 'we' would want to seek out would come to contain the likes of this
or, some far later day, even this
(in fact, I'm once again wondering how long these will ultimately manage to keep within this journal now)
For those who even at this point still don't know what I'm supposedly rambling about, here you may find the most basic of informations regarding this overall 'rambling' of mine:
While said own country of mine and perhaps the one or other supposedly strive for a more 'mild' enforcement of same new laws now, it's ultimately a false hope, a fallacy, an illusion. There will be no way around Upload-Filters if one really wants to enforce them to such ludicrous extremes, with most of said larger companies and services most likely withdrawing themselves from the EU market now out of the sheer impossibility to meet all those standarts, ultimately blocking sites from us to interact with as the passage of the Data-Protection law the year already would - all for what?
'Copyright-protection' my
. The way it's ultimately solved now will do far more damage than good for thrice users, content creatores and partially even the very ones who brought it up, in the first place. The only ones I could think of to properly profit from all that to be afromentioned 'other companies' to some degree and 'laywer sharks' who have no life.
Now for those very 'higher ups' or supporters of same laws who critizied all those very protestors since day one, no, (as good as) no one is opposed towards the fundamental idea of protecting one's creation in an effective way as well as updating those very laws to match the newfound century now. In fact some very small part of me actually would dearly like to look forward towards the likes of this as I, too, belong to those more coming from analog-times (rather in the middle, actually, but still so) who want their creations to remain by themselves and only allow others in reposting their stuff when having been asked permission beforehand - in fact, back in my 'TG-days', this is how I used to proceed with at least one YouTube user who wanted to feature them in a video series of his (don't know the name anymore) and should normally be respected as such.
In example, still sticking within same TG-direction, I'd try to fall in defense of a rather popular TG-Artist (whose name I'll purposely left unmentioned here), whose hard-worked features repeatedly get uploaded on YouTube without his permission and in exchange towards a small fee that's not reaching the 10 Dollars mark and needing it to cover his expenses, only for said
to just continue their bull
(yeah, I'm partially still in foul mood, even after having waited for a day to supposedly calm down now). If such laws were to exist on global scale, that might have been the only kind of solice I might have received out of this, as it'd just prevent those
from breaking such simple rules.
But alas, as pointed out above, the main abusers are rather found operating on US-market or similar, so even if 'we' are to suffer from those very newfound laws now, 'they' will regardlessly get off scot-free and simply continue their game.
All in all, that's one of the very reasons, why, even for those really supporting, the entirety of the laws the way introduced now is just not gonna work. Rather, entire populations end up gonna punished now for something only 'few' do (and it's already bad enough for Chinese, Russians and Egyptians among other, only for us to join their 'club' now (at least we might now get to understand them
far better, in return
), just for reasons already pointed out.
Even if one were to argue that, perhaps, it's all less done for the sake of (hidden) profit on
some companies' ends rather than for the sake of wanting 'us' to return to more analog-times, again (which, seeing at times how far more the current 'youth' has come to lose morale now appearantly even higher than even our generation (by forces, I sound so old now when proclaiming this
), it'd on one hand actually not even be a bad thing for a change, but even so...), it's still just a dumb idea in more ways than one and not really gonna solve anything.
*Sigh* All in all now, it's really a dead end. It's over. There's nothing that can be done anymore to prevent what'll supposedly come. Even those thinking there's still a way, is just a make-believe notion.
Even in sight towards upcoming votes within the EU in less than a month and ambitions in supposedly rooting out all those in favor of the dreaded articles will be nothing more than a simple symbolic statement at this point, or just an act of retalitation. And even if the European Court of Justice would ultimately debunk the law in some years' time, it'd not undo the damage already inflicted through the enforcement of same laws then, perhaps not even being irreversible then, anymore.
Some, including me atm, certainly would like to pack things and simply flee towards the states for continous oppressive nature inflicted by 'them', but even in such lights, one's past would only come to haunt them, even in that direction. Perhaps it'd even be similar towards an American Tail then, where everyone had such high hopes for there being 'no cats in America', only for the opposite to occur, then, actually not much different than what was before - and that's not even getting into overall current 'political situations' over there.
All in all, it's certainly a despair event horizont - at least for me. I was actually positive that, in near future (supposedly only few more months from here), I'd actually manage making a great return and post/produce geninue art, again, for here, alongside all my other very great projects in mind (especially a very special one) (and was actually among the lines of what I originally wanted to write the day before). But this very turn of events renders this potential as good as non-existent, now, seeing how much of it all is ultimately fan-art based, completely fitting 'their' bill, then. Even if this site were to be spared initially, it'd only be a matter of time, before the laws would also find root here, even moreso when the US might once again draw inspiration from said EU-laws now to once more try enforcing their own versions towards the public at large. It'll only be a matter of time, before the internet we've known and loved, will be completely gone, then, the way it used to be.
Well, seeing how things have ultimately turned out to be now, some of you that may have grown bored of these rather 'politically-driven' journal-entries - and be it only in a certain direction - may ultimately find themselves reliefed now with the knowledge of me no longer 'pesting' them with these, for it'll remain my final last journal entry upon this topic, seeing no need nor motivation behind those any longer (unless an unexpected positive turn where to come to take place, after all, but that appearing rather unlikely by this point).
Regardlessly of that, though, my own inner despair horizont for reasons just explained remains.... at least, when it comes to that, I don't know what to do anymore...