{"id":7130,"date":"2017-10-20T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T14:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2017-10-12T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:49:38","slug":"linked-pepe-the-frogs-creator-goes-legally-nuclear-against-the-alt-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/linked-pepe-the-frogs-creator-goes-legally-nuclear-against-the-alt-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Pepe the Frog\u2019s Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/8x8gaa\/pepe-the-frogs-creator-lawsuits-dmca-matt-furie-alt-right\">via Vice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The artist&#8217;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\u2014stop using Pepe the Frog or prepare for legal consequences.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a political issue, this is a copyright issue. Who knows where the political views of the artist lie but what I agree with is copyright owned by the artist is there\u2019s and people stealing the image and modifying it is illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Vice: The artist&#8217;s lawyers have taken legal action against the alt-right. 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