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> emptive copyright filter for content-sharing sites, as well as the idea that news publishers should have the right to sue others for quoting news items online
by rdtsc 8y ago
> emptive copyright filter for content-sharing sites, as well as the idea that news publishers should have the right to sue others for quoting news items online
I don't understand the justification for this. If you quote them to either point out the news or the errors they can turn on you if they want to and sue you.
> “removal order”, which will oblige hosting service providers to remove content within one hour of being ordered to do so.
Something tells me there is a lobbyist out there for a company which sell automated removal of "infringing" content.
> EU now wants to expand that to defining the limits of political speech too.
That seems scary, I hope EFF is exaggerating. This to me seems like very a authoritarian move. I wouldn't have expected it from EU at least.
- girvo 8y agoAs much as I think the EU is mostly a force for good, they also have very different opinions on what free speech entails compared to say the US. Australia, where I’m from, even more so. Im unsure how we fight this.
- repolfx 8y agoThe EU - as distinct from European countries themselves - has a pretty consistently authoritarian direction of travel. It is after all a project to massively centralise all power in an unelected bureaucracy in Brussels, removing it from the democratically elected politicians in the national governments. You probably aren't aware of this because the EU gets consistently good press from journalists rather enamoured of the whole project, but there are reasons the UK chose to leave.
- paulie_a 8y agoI'm wondering why the EFF doesn't just address the elephant in the room. A large portion of the internet can blatantly and outright ignore these new EU regulations and laws.