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torsdag 28 mars 2019

The new EU copyright law to ban free speech …Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!


The new EU copyright law to ban free speech …Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!
peacekeeper3173 14 points · 16 hours ago EU: shit they outsmarted us lets activate article 69 destroy all memers  … redditors from EU: uhh whatever ..we will, improvise, adapt and overcome

New EU copyright law closes the book on free speech online. That’s a feature, not a bug.

Posted by Lou on March 26, 2019 pn RT     The controversial copyright law passed in the EU parliament is less about copyright than it is about hammering a final nail in the coffin of the freedoms the internet once promised. Yes, Article 13 is that bad.

Most laws address themselves toward tangible, human-sized problems. Article 13, the sweeping European copyright legislation that proposes to filter all content on its way to the web to ensure no rights are being violated, isn’t interested in such prosaic stuff. It seeks to defy the Second Law ofThermodynamics.
Physics? In my internet? The web operates according to the laws of entropy. It trends toward decentralization – of ideas, of social groups, but most importantly of power.
Authority looks at this delightful disorder and sees only malevolent chaos that needs to be reined in. Legislators and the corporations that run their countries have spent a lot of time brainstorming on how to put the cat back in the bag, and Article 13 is the result.
This is not just a European problem. Like a catastrophic nuclear meltdown, there is no containing the fallout from this kind of measure, designed to effectively destroy the internet as we know it.
Companies and platforms may start by leaving Europe, or refusing to serve European customers, but the internet has no borders, and the big platforms will embrace whatever filters are required to maintain their hold on their users – no matter what country they inhabit.

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