• A new threat to internet as we know it: EU's new copyright proposal
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European Parliament member Julia Reda is sounding the alarm and asking people to speak out. As she notes, many of the folks now freaking out about the GDPR wish they got involved over two years ago when it was being debated. And if you're concerned about how problematic this new copyright reform will be for the internet, now is the time to speak out (yes, even if you're not in the EU) Reda's post goes on to detail the many, many problems of the current copyright proposal -- in which merely linking to a news site may require paying money (link tax) and where concerns about how that might negatively impact the entire internet are being woefully ignored. Perhaps even worse is the mandatory filtering idea. The big record labels and movie studios have, of course, been pushing for this kind of thing for years to get back at Google (mainly) and Facebook (a little bit). But, here's the thing: both Google and Facebook already have those filters (and spent tens of millions of dollars on them). This kind of law fucks over everyone else. Forget The GDPR, The EU's New Copyright Proposal Will Be A Complete And Utter Disaster For The Internet
It's like politicians get a hard on for trying to completely ruin the internet. For reasons???
US: We basically killed net neutrality lol EU: Hold my beer
Internet is a giant, wild stallion ready to be broken and rode as hard as it can by greedy, corrupt fat asses.
can we not tho
The internet had a good run
I say we go back to carrier pigeons.
Free and open internet is a threat to corporations and politicians, of course they'll try to squelch it.
Mr Voss’ latest draft expands the scope of the censorship machines proposal to all web platforms (a) whose purpose is to “give access to copyrighted content uploaded by users” and which (b) “optimise” that content. What counts as optimising? Among a long list of actions, we find that “displaying” the uploads already makes platforms legally liable for any copyright infringement they may include (Recital 37a). And in his version, web services can’t even avoid liability by implementing upload filters. To protect themselves from being sued, they would need to get licenses from all rightsholders that exist on the planet before allowing user uploads to go online, just in case the upload may contain (parts of) any of their works. If this passes, say goodbye to having access to any website that lets you so much as post comments cause this is basically asking for the impossible, I doubt any service would be able to comply with something like this
Literally killing the internet because they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
We'll just all move to the darknet. I'll see you guys at the new facepunch address: 75123890-=4jv5gcgfhjdgfhjjghghjd723489-5bvg6723489-5g6h7m239-46.garlic Really rolls off the tongue too, easy to remember.
While the EU certainly has its fair share of dumb proposals, they're usually also sensible enough either change them or outright reject. This still has to pass the EU Parliament.
Honestly sounds too dumb and uninformed to pass. Just me?
When, People never learn to not fuck up Internet.
Yeah, but the thing is these things can go under the radar really easily if people just ignore it, thinking it dosen't matter.
What if it passes, couldn't websites have the option to not comply like the recent privacy laws, and basically wait for the EU to block them? EU would start isolating itself and their internet would end up like China's.
While worrying that such a bill is even about to reach European Parliament it has proven itself to be very pro internet in the recent years.
hopefully substratum can get released soon Home
wtf why are there so many of these things
Considering how the large majority of the internet seems to be busy freaking out over Trump's daily scandals and the US' Net Neutrality problem, I think it's very likely that this will go completely under the radar. I hope Garry likes paying for every single one of the 200'000 threads in SH and Polidicks.
I don't think SOPA or PIPA could possibly come close to topping this. Can't wait for a year long moderation queue on youtube for uploads is this hunk of shit gets passed.
this is what happens when technophobes who dont understand the internet try to police the internet
I wonder if the darknet will become more popular because of all this.
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Despite everyone praising the EU as some kind of organ that cares about users, I would not be surprised in the least if this passes. They've tried and passed similiar things in the past.
Lol Tried and failed every single time, yet you wouldn't be surprised if it goes through
"Earn cryptocurrency" lmao fuck off
Legislation like this always gets shot down in the European parliament. One thing people forget is that politicians can write up any fucking legislation they want, it all comes down to whether it gets through the legislature that counts, and so far the European parliament's response to shit like this has been "This shit is a gross overstepping of law enforcement and is entirely untenable." before shutting it down. That's not to say this can't pass, there's always the possibility that it will and it's up t the people to make their voices heard. What's that saying, the cost of freedom is eternal vigilance? Maybe a bit pretentious in this case, hyperbolic even, but always worth keeping in mind.
do we really want a totally decentralised and deregulated internet though? isn't that basically the dark web
I mean it already exists with stuff like Freenet, and if your concern is deregulated/illegal activity, yeah, it's full of that. It's actually even more resilient than the dark web, because with the dark web services are still ran by normal servers, meaning that they can be seized and destroyed if their owners fuck up and are found. If you put something onto Freenet, it's theoretically there forever as to get rid of the file you would have to find and destroy every node carrying it. But that's the tradeoff and there's plenty of values in these services, especially for resisting surveillance and censorship in oppressive countries. I doubt they'll ever reach widespread usage due to usability and a few other reasons though. Just a thing for activists, criminals, and a few random nerds & their friends playing with neat technology.
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