The
Trump administration plans to shift much of the power and
responsibility for food safety inspections in hog plants to the pork
industry as early as May, cutting the number of federal inspectors by
about 40% and replacing them with plant employees.
Under
the proposed new inspection system, the responsibility for identifying
diseased and contaminated pork would be shared with plant employees,
whose training would be at the discretion of plant owners. There would
be no limits on slaughter-line speeds.
The
new pork inspection system would accelerate the federal government’s
move toward delegating inspections to the livestock industry. During the
Obama administration, poultry plant owners were given more power over
safety inspections, although that administration canceled plans to
increase line speeds. The Trump administration in September allowed some
poultry plants to increase line speeds.
The
Trump administration also is working to shift inspection of beef to
plant owners. U.S. Department of Agriculture officials are scheduled
next month to discuss the proposed changes with the meat industry.
The moment we saw the cardboard disk in the “physical copies” should’ve been a red flag
oh dear
Waitholup, there were WHAT in the disk cases??
You know, for a minute there I thought Blizzard had conducted this year’s greatest video-game cock-up. Then Bethesda said “Hold my Nuka Cola” and started a dumpster fire.
Imagine how much more he would make in those 10 seconds if he pissed in a Gatorade bottle
Amazon also doesn’t pay anything in federal taxes and a lot of their
workers are on government assistance. That’s really fucking cool.
that’s where government regulations should kick in.
You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression.
We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Todaywe take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report.
The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment.
Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now.
If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu.
Please reblog this as much as you reblogged the posts about Net Neutrality.
If Article 13 is approved, European People might be basically banned from uploading any fan content.
You won’t get new fanfics from people in Europe.
You won’t get new gifs from people in Europe.
You won’t get new fanart from people in Europe.
Because they’ll be automatically filtered and blocked!
We might leave Tumblr and other fandom pages.
And if we’re getting all our content blocked?
You might lose some of your favourite followers/mutuals.
You might not get to read the rest of that fic you’re dying to read - simply because the writer lives in the wrong country.
So do whatever you can to help us stop this.
Reblog this.
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO TELL THEM YOU DON’T WANT ARTICLE 13 TO BE APPROVED IF YOU’RE EUROPEAN! DO IT VIA THE HOMEPAGE
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Girl Blogger from Iowa.
From Fandom to Art, I share all I can find with you.
I re-blog stuff. If you don't want me to re-blog it, ask me to take it down.
There will be fandom stuff from different fandoms on here.
