Julia Reda, Member of the European Parliament representing Germany, writes about documents leaked yesterday by Statewatch showing that the current EU Council presidency questions extra copyright for news snippets, but endorses censorship. The council presidency is currently held by Estonia. In that role, the Estonians have wisely backed off on proposals to eliminate the freedom to hyperlink, a topic covered earlier. However, they are for the time being in favor of establishing heavy censorship apparati to require monitoring and evaluating all uploads and posts, mandating blocking such posts or uploads should they be found in violation of copyright. Either proposal affects sites like SN quite heavily.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @06:35AM (5 children)
It's ok guys, we'll only censor stuff that we don't agree with like those damn nazi's, it's not like the internet should be a place of free and open discussion on principal or anything.. right?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @06:43AM (1 child)
> those damn nazi's
First they came for the Grammar Nazi's,
and I said, "It should be Grammar Nazis",
so they took me away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @03:39AM
It should be "grammar Nazis."
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday September 02 2017, @07:04AM (1 child)
Why do you want to discuss on the chief executive of the university? I can think of better platforms. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @09:40AM
They want to discuss the original amount of the loan, but not the interest.
(but I thought the whole point was to discuss topics of interest!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @01:34PM
it's not like the internet should be a place of free and open discussion on principal or anything.. right?
Right, all this silly idealism needs to go away. The internet is strictly a marketing platform, where only licensed merchants and financial institutions have the authority to upload anything at all. Heavy penalties await those who try to circumvent the law. Befehl ist Befehl