07-05-2018, 08:16 PM
Vote was narrowly defeated for now:
EU Parliamentary Committee Votes To Put American Internet Giants In Charge Of What Speech Is Allowed Online
from the bad-news dept
As we've been writing over the past few weeks, the EU Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) voted earlier today on the EU's new Copyright Directive. Within that directive were two absolutely horrible ideas that are dangerous to an open internet -- a link tax and a mandatory copyright filtering requrement (i.e., the "censorship machines" proposal). While there was a big fight about it, and we heard that some in the EU Parliament were getting nervous about it
EU Parliamentary Committee Votes To Put American Internet Giants In Charge Of What Speech Is Allowed Online
from the bad-news dept
As we've been writing over the past few weeks, the EU Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) voted earlier today on the EU's new Copyright Directive. Within that directive were two absolutely horrible ideas that are dangerous to an open internet -- a link tax and a mandatory copyright filtering requrement (i.e., the "censorship machines" proposal). While there was a big fight about it, and we heard that some in the EU Parliament were getting nervous about it