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EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org)
An anonymous reader shares a report: A Council of the European Union document leaked by Statewatch on 30 August reveals that during the summer months, that Estonia (current EU Presidency) has been pushing the other Member States to strengthen indiscriminate internet surveillance, and to follow in the footsteps of China regarding online censorship. Standing firmly behind its belief that filtering the uploads is the way to go, the Presidency has worked hard in order to make the proposal for the new copyright Directive even more harmful than the Commission's original proposal, and pushing it further into the realms of illegality. According to the leaked document, the text suggests two options for each of the two most controversial proposals: the so-called "link tax" or ancillary copyright and the upload filter.
Since the presidency of the EU is not "big government", it's literally just a rotating position that gives countries an opportunity to propose an agenda. Estonia has pissed it's opportunity away by proposing something that seems to violate the human rights of EU citizens (the right to privacy in particular) and which has no hope of ever being adopted or even influencing the legislation.
Before you complain about the EU, note that it has some of the strongest privacy protections in the world. They have been used to stop government spying, they have been used to force massive multinational companies like Google to respect individual privacy. And those are actual, written and enforced law, not some random proposal that has zero chance of ever being enacted.
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Estonia is the only remaining country in Europe where SS (yes, _that_ SS) veterans march on main streets. I guess it's hard to let go of Nazi past.
Racists upset they're being passed over by the world?
The world? I don't think if you've noticed, but the only part of the world that gives a single toss about racism is a western white minority with negative birth rates. The rest of the world enjoys being openly racist against neighbors as well as Westerners (except being racist against white westerners is politically sanctioned as a correct and just move). The Arabs and generally all Semite people still refer to blacks with their words for the term "slave", China and East Asia have only ever-increasingly horrible things to say about blacks the more they involve themselves in Africa for economic reasons, Slavs i'm not even going to discuss since they hate leftism as much as they hate nazism out of historical reasons of both fucking them up, Indians and surrounding people (China and Pakis) are all at each others throats with Sikhs and Buddhists in the middle, Africa itself is also a giant jumble, while Japs, Koreans and Chinese hate each other and all think the South-East islanders are inferior monkeys. South America has more segregation than 60's USA while we hear of Mexicans and Latinos trying to ethnically cleanse blacks from US cities on a yearly basis. All the world is racist without giving a toss, while you are stuck in a minority anti-racist population my little friend.