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EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content' (techdirt.com)
Mike Masnick, reporting for TechDirt: We've been trying to explain for the past few months just how absolutely insane the new EU Terrorist Content Regulation will be for the internet. Among many other bad provisions, the big one is that it would require content removal within one hour as long as any "competent authority" within the EU sends a notice of content being designated as "terrorist" content. The law is set for a vote in the EU Parliament just next week. And as if they were attempting to show just how absolutely insane the law would be for the internet, multiple European agencies (we can debate if they're "competent") decided to send over 500 totally bogus takedown demands to the Internet Archive last week, claiming it was hosting terrorist propaganda content. [...] And just in case you think that maybe the requests are somehow legit, they are so obviously bogus that anyone with a browser would know they are bogus. Included in the list of takedown demands are a bunch of the Archive's "collection pages" including the entire Project Gutenberg page of public domain texts, it's collection of over 15 million freely downloadable texts, the famed Prelinger Archive of public domain films and the Archive's massive Grateful Dead collection. Oh yeah, also a page of CSPAN recordings. So much terrorist content!
To the publishing companies, ANYTHING freely available is terroristic content.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
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Where/When have we seen this sort of act before in our human history? i.e. Library of Alexandria
But you REMEMBER him, that was his entire point. Otherwise he'd just be a nameless face in the crowd.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Dear Government Authority,
We have reviewed your request regarding the alleged "terrorist" content on our website, and found the request to be baseless and nonsensical. As a result, your agency has been placed on our "incompetent authority" list. All future requests from your organization will be ignored.
If you believe your organization has been placed on the "incompetent authority" list in error, please send a certified letter stating your petition along with a 125 Euro processing fee to our legal department.
Good Day,
The Internet Archive
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
You ever look into history? The reason we write things down is because it is or was important. "On the internet" doesn't change much with writings except the method of writing.
Just like what another poster said, the Internet Archive respects robots.txt and will retroactively delete a site if you set it that way.
Also even though the written texts are on a different medium, digitally versus paper, some writings will hold huge historical value; to suggest otherwise would be akin to burning books because they're "blasphemous" or something similar, and while you might want that for your own data most people would want this historical backup, especially scholarly sites like Wikipedia and the public domain books that can be distributed freely forever.
His invention decimated the livelihoods of THOUSANDS of monks!
#DeleteChrome
Maybe content hosts should simply geoblock the whole the EU with a message of explaining the outcome of this?
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
I find it very strange, how ALL countries got so paranoid and totalitarian and just plain nuts and evil since between 1998 and 2006.
Those countries look like they couldn't be more different. Yet the somehow all follow the same path.
Seriously, what the hell?
Yeah, I put on my tin foil hat, with its perfect parabolic concentrator shape. ;)
But you face what is *really* just a plain verifiable fact of reality, and verify it for yourself, in exchange.
So far Republicans aren't advocating "punching commies" or trying to take down Project Gutenberg.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
A bunch of goathearders with small arms have brought both Russia and the US to unending frustration in Afganistan.
You're a tard.
I regularly see violence advocated against the left.
That would be relevant if GP said the right is perfectly clean and violence has never been done by (or in the name of) Republicans.
He didn't.
alt-right terrorism
That would be relevant if alt-right is synonymous and equivalent with Republican.
It isn't.
And I want to make something clear: this isn't a "Nuh, your side is worse" thing. This is a "The fact you are this out of touch is why the violence is happening thing."
No, this is you doing a strawman thing. Gives you a nice excuse to beat up on an imagined right winger.
you'll find no support for them from the left on this.
Except in the article, that explicitly tells us the notices were coming from an official France organize (I don't do French, but Google translate tells me it's an official unit tied to the French police). France, as in that place still run by a pro-EU, left leaning party, that won by quite a healthy margin back in 2017. I remember how the left cheered for Macron's victory as a bit of good news for the left after Trump and Brexit vote.