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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.
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EU Council Presidency Questions Extra Copyright, but Endorses Censorship
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @04:17PM (2 children)
Eh, that was Somalia, not exactly a big player, and it's being fixed--from your link:
> Authorities were hoping to have internet restored sometime this week.
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> The internet outage was estimated to cost the country $10 million per day in lost business, according to the government.
Quite a bit different from the EU legislating against linking and against quoting.
(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 02 2017, @06:27PM (1 child)
The fact you are avoiding is that it is trivial to censor and cut off your access to the internet. The ISP is the weak link that must be dealt with if we are going to create a robust, indelible, accessible internet.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @03:46AM
That's easy to fix. Just replace it with a mesh network.