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Wikipedia Italy Blocks All Articles in Protest of EU's Ruinous Copyright Proposals (gizmodo.com)

Posted by msmash on from the fighting-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes: On Tuesday, Wikipedia Italy set all of its pages to redirect to a statement raising awareness for the upcoming vote that (barring some legislative wrangling) would make the copyright directive law. The statement reads, in part (emphasis theirs): On July 5, 2018, The Plenary of the European Parliament will vote whether to proceed with a copyright directive proposal which, if approved, will significantly harm the openness of the Internet . The directive instead of updating the copyright laws in Europe and promoting the participation of all the citizens to the society of information, threatens online freedom and creates obstacles to accessing the Web, imposing new barriers, filters and restrictions. If the proposal would be approved in its current form, it could be impossible to share a news article on social networks, or find it through a search engine; Wikipedia itself would be at risk.

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  1. More government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Europeans voted for more government, and this is what more government looks like. It's rather hard to pity them.

    1. Re:More government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      WTF is wrong with your brain that you would think this is about pity? You should have that looked at.

      This is about "You voted for more government and here's one of the ways that you're about to get it .. unless you change your mind or at least take action to correct the fucking up of the various details of arbitrarily-expanding government. And actually, you still have time as long as you credibly threaten your politicians right now."

      America isn't asking for pity, either, BTW, despite our own disastrous political problems of our own making.

    2. Re:More government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      rofl. government does something bad.
      but what is needed is more government.

  2. A Win for the EU by Zorro · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is actually the goal. Not a side effect.

  3. How fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On July 4th the US celebrates their freedom.

    On July 5th the EU ends ours.