Pepe the Frog's Creator Is Sending Takedown Notices To Far-Right Sites (vice.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie has made good on his threat to "aggressively enforce his intellectual property." The artist's lawyers have taken legal action against the alt-right. They have served cease and desist orders to several alt-right personalities and websites including Richard Spencer, Mike Cernovich, and the r/the_Donald subreddit. In addition, they have issued Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests to Reddit and Amazon, notifying them that use of Pepe by the alt-right on their platforms is copyright infringement. The message is to the alt-right is clear -- stop using Pepe the Frog or prepare for legal consequences. Furie originally created Pepe as a non-political character for his Boy's Club comic, but Pepe later became an internet meme and during the 2016 U.S. presidential election the alt-right movement appropriated the frog in various grotesque and hateful memes.

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You can't selectively apply the law

[guruevi]

Him and his lawyers basically shot themselves in the foot with that expression. You either enforce your copyright or you don't. Selecting a group of people regardless of definition, means you're not enforcing your copyright consistently and you are going to lose it.

Re: Actually you can

[ravenshrike]

The fact that you think his case is clear cut shows you know jack and shit about the history of Pepe, copyright law, or both.

Re:That still doesn't matter

[doctorvo]

Second of all racism is hardly merely a "political opinion".

No, it's instead the long-standing ideology and policy of Democrats and progressives. Democratic/progressive ideology used to be "all black individuals are genetically inferior and therefore we need to keep them down". These days the Democratic/progressive ideology is "all black individuals have been damaged by a history of slavery, and all white individuals have benefited from slavery, therefore we need to classify everybody by race and then transfer massive amounts of money from white individuals to black individuals".

So, you are right: racism is hardly merely a "political opinion", it has been a miserable reality of American political life for more than two centuries, and it has always been the Democrats who have been, and continue to be, responsible for it.

Decent, non-racist people believe that race simply shouldn't matter and that people should be treated equally, regardless of race, a concept that Democrats simply do not seem to be able to grasp.

Re:That still doesn't matter

[computational super]

No, no, all Trump supporters are literal Nazis. All 63 million of them. That's why America has adopted the swastika as its national flag since Trump's election and brownshirts roam the streets virtually unopposed.