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If this law has already been paid for, what you would get from your MEP is a template response in the spirit of "I share your concerns blah blah, but copyrights
by merinowool 8y ago
If this law has already been paid for, what you would get from your MEP is a template response in the spirit of "I share your concerns blah blah, but copyrights are important blah blah".
I don't think you can do much about it at this point.
- r3bl 8y agoYou should really look up how EU regulations work.
- merinowool 8y agoEnlighten me please, as I don't believe the reasons for passing it are genuine.
- ahartmetz 8y agoLobbyists don't usually hand over money. Usually they are just good at appearing trustworthy and, uh, explaining the positions of their clients in terms that politicians understand. Therefore, their explainees think they are doing genuinely good things.
- ahartmetz 8y agoBy the way, I saw a honest-to-god lobbyist at a panel discusssion once. He was wearing a sort of relaxed suit and had a slight punk vibe with slightly messy hair. The personality-free banker look wouldn't win trust so easily when speaking for business interests. Those people really know what they are doing.
- merinowool 8y agoSurely they don't hand over cash, I didn't mean that, but they give benefits by different means.
- Filligree 8y agoThe main benefit they give is to explain technical concepts in terms the politicians understand. Sometimes that's a "benefit", but that's when calling them yourself helps the most.
- merinowool 8y agoThat benefit could also be a card to anonymous account in tax haven.
- ameister14 8y agoWell, they have in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_cash_for_influence_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_cash_for_influence_scanda...
- r3bl 8y agoI'm way oversimplifying this, but I'm going to enlighten you by saying that this isn't a part of law yet. It merely passed a checkpoint called legal committee (that consists of 25 MEPs) on its way to become a part of law. There are still multiple checkpoints that can be used to counter this, and the proposal will almost certainly be voted on by the entire EP, probably in December/January. That's why calling your representative makes a difference.
- bengale 8y agoI'm in the UK. Conservative MEP did as you said, Labour one sent a bit of a boilerplate that they are considering it, UKIP are of course against it but thats par for the course with them, the green one sent a detailed response and is voting against both art 11 and 13 (the ones I raised issue with).
- bloak 8y agoI have had some very intelligent non-boilerplate replies from Green Party UK MEPs. However, it looks as though we won't have another opportunity to vote for them.
- azernik 8y agoI've found the Greens Europe-wide to take the EU the most seriously as a political body. They run serious Europe-wide campaigns for EP elections, and send politicians of substance to the EP rather than sending the second string like most other parties do.
- nailer 8y agoHate them as most people in the UK do (I've never voted for them and wouldn't either), UKIP already resolved this (in a far more permanent way than the greens) by ensuring EU law does not apply to the UK in future.
- fauigerzigerk 8y agoWhat are you going to do next time the UK parliament passes a law you don't like? Dissolve the United Kingdom?
- noir_lord 8y agoCan we? I'd be in favour of dissolving it back to counties with a senate. The south never does anything for us up North.
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