They completely fail to understand that it is them, the old-school publishers and media agencies that forgot to adapt to the digital age, who are the evil lobby groups in this case – killing social media because they don’t want to adapt their business model and wouldn’t survive otherwise.<\/p>\n
It’s indeed a struggle between David and Goliath – but with us creators being David, and them media agencies being Goliath.<\/p>\n
I’m done commenting on the shameful role of the Greens<\/a> in this, with MEP Helga Truepel actively supporting the directive and fighting against everything the Greens<\/a> ever stood for, without any opposition from her peers or her party.<\/p>\n (Image by Markus Reuter<\/a>, 3\/25\/19)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An evening before the vote on the misguided EU Copyright Directive, lobby groups are holding a dinner for MEPs. Impala are still touting the narrative that they are heroically fighting the evil US tech giants. Their tagline is Europe for Creators – Creators that have signed up with a media agency and hand over a … Continue reading Lobbyism at its worst<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-socialmedia","category-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-5c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"D2fhRmBWkAAC-Yd\"](\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/D2fhRmBWkAAC-Yd_thumb.jpg\" "\\"D2fhRmBWkAAC-Yd\\"")
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