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> The EU isn't perfect... But this sounds a lot like an attempt to give consumer protection agencies the powers to block scam sites. It sounds more like an att
by microcolonel 9y ago
> The EU isn't perfect... But this sounds a lot like an attempt to give consumer protection agencies the powers to block scam sites.
It sounds more like an attempt to give somebody powers to block potentially copyright infringing sites, under the pretense of consumer protection, through the roundabout justification that consumers "collectively" benefit from strict enforcement of copyright.
- yorwba 9y agoThe copyright infringing sites can already be blocked, so this can't be about that. It seems likely to me that it's actually about consumer protection, unlike the existing copyright legislation.