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The title is misleading. The directive was approved by a large majority of 348 in favor, 274 against (spread of 74 votes). Before that, there was a vote about
by bambax 8y ago
The title is misleading. The directive was approved by a large majority of 348 in favor, 274 against (spread of 74 votes).
Before that, there was a vote about whether to vote on individual amendments; that vote (about voting on amendments) is the one discussed in the OP and was indeed only defeated by 5 votes.
One individual amendment offered to delete article 13. It's possible that if that amendment had come to a vote it would have succeeded, but it's not certain -- and given the majority the directive enjoyed, it's quite unlikely.
This directive is still an absolute catastrophe, the effects of which will be felt for a very long time. But articles like these don't quite help the fight.
- Reimersholme 8y agoAlso, the group that miss-voted accidentally only have 2 votes, so even had they voted correctly the bill would have been defeated had everybody else voted the same.
- chriswwweb 8y agoYes, you right, this article is trying to mislead the reader in several sentences, but the title here on hacker news is actually totally wrong, I would categorize it as "fake news", first the wording "got legalized" is weird, but most importantly the part "Article 13 gets legalized because Sweden pushed the wrong button" is just wrong as there were two votes, sweden did a mistake while voting for the second vote, which was about "if amendments should get discussed" I'm totally against so called article 13, I think it will be super bad for European startups, they will suffer the most, but trying to spread fake news just makes it worse because people you try to explain this don't take you serious anymore we need a report fake news button on hacker news
- endymi0n 8y agoOP here, while we're at it, there should be a possibility to retract an article after posting. I've fact checked this and it looks like you're right, however I have no possibility to kill the article at the current moment.