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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.
It's becoming clearer and clearer that the UK is making the right decision by aiming to cut as many ties as possible with the EU. It just isn't worth being involved with them if it potentially exposes a nation to nonsense like this, or worse, to the hordes of illegal aliens from some of the worst places imaginable who have essentially invaded Europe without any real resistance these past few years. Whatever short-term pain there might be from Brexit is well worth it.
The EU allowed German car companies to cheat test.
The EU allowed Merkel to invite every third world inhabitant and did nothing to protect its external borders or to stop anarchist sympathizing NGO's who collaborate with human traffickers and slave traders.
The EU forced poorer east European countries to open their borders for Muslim immigrants.
The EU forced austerity on all member states even when the population of the individual states voted something else.
The EU forced socialization of pension funds even when the individual states had an elected government that opposed this socialization.
The EU encourages low wage workers to compete local workers out of the market, increasing unemployment among workers who are in high demand, but who are considered too expensive according to their nationality.
The EU doesn't do anything against millions of illegal immigrants, and funds NGO's who attract even more illegal immigrants with their charity.
The EU forces more and more freedom limiting and privacy invading laws upon the member states in an attempt to stop the rise of Eurosceptic politicians. They even make propaganda movies now, using people who died during the devastating world wars as martyrs for the EU. Those people died fighting for their freedom against an enemy who wanted to 'unite' the states and didn't even know anything about a political European Union.
The list goes on and on. The EU started to go wrong when a couple of leaders decided that the entire EU should be Socialist welfare state in the early 2000's.
Brexit isn't sounding so bad now, is it....?
Yeah 100% of deaf people agree.