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Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com)
EU lawmakers today endorsed an overhaul of the bloc's two-decade old copyright rules, which will force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for use of news snippets and make them filter out protected content. From a report: The set of copyright rules known as the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, but more succinctly as the EU Copyright Directive, has been debated and discussed for several years. While it is broadly uncontroversial in many regards, there are two facets to the directive that has caused the internet to freak out. Article 11, which has been dubbed the "link tax," stipulates that websites pay publishers a fee if they display excerpts of copyrighted content -- or even link to it. This obviously could have big ramifications for services such as Google News. Then there is Article 13, dubbed the "upload filter," which would effectively make digital platforms legally liable for any copyright infringements on their platform, which has stoked fears that it would stop people from sharing content -- such as GIF-infused memes -- on social networks. In a statement, EFF said, "In a stunning rejection of the will five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, technologists, and UN human rights experts, and approved the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive in its entirety."
You are an idiot.
All your claims are wrong.
To make you an less idiot, I link the first hit of "how does the EU work" for you: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsroun...
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
The funny thing is that Germany has done with the EU what it never could with Hitler and the world's most advanced military force at the time: take over the entirety of Europe (and without firing a shot). They even got the other countries to APPLY for the privilege of giving up their national sovereignty. Even Goebbels himself could have never engineered something that brilliant in a million years.
Turns out the Blitzkrieg was just a waste of effort. Just convince everyone else that it's in their economic interest to hand over control of their country to you, and they'll not only LET you invade, they'll BEG you for it.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.