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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!
I guarantee that most/countless people don't want their old, embarrassing sites/content available forever for some asshole to search up and use against them. Imagine if anything you ever said in any setting could be played back at any time in the future. A dystopian thought.
And no, they don't "just have themselves to blame for making it public in the first place blablabla". Fuck off. If I had known back then what I know today about this world, I would've never published anything in the first place. Nobody told me. Nobody wanted me to know. They *encouraged* this madness.
Let those old bits rot already. Not every diary ever written by a human needs to be preserved. Leave some mystery and wonder in this shitty, over-analyzed world.
Let them deal with the headache of sorting this sh-t out.
EU, California, all these other commie hellholes that want to regulate an international network can go f themselves.
If I decide to host the Project Gutenberg page of public domain texts on my machine in Florida, who the hell is the EU to tell me I must take it down?
While the Eurocrats make increasingly insane rules, the real problem is their failure to control the EU's own borders. By letting in an unvetted flood of refugees who did not pass through the long-established immigration process, they exposed themselves to actual terrorists who hid in that stream. Small wonder that the common folk of Britain, France, Hungary and now Italy are rebelling against this policy. Popcorn!
Much of the EU's population is terrorist content too and they don't seem overly concerned with that. Start with acid and truck attacks first, THEN maybe whine about the internet archive.
True, Trump only advocated shooting them from a distance. Punching risks getting cooties.
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