Those who start to scratch the surface, such as Julia Reda – German Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA Group – and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), are uncovering how the EC carefully cherry-picked the evidence that supports their ideological policy choices, whilst withholding evidence going against them. The EC officials must have confused policy-based evidence making with evidence-based policy making.
Just before the 2017 Winter break, MEP Reda uncovered another attempt of the EC to swipe evidence under the carpet. Officials from the EC's Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) where caught in the act, when they 'kindly' reminded a researcher of the EC's Joint Research Centre (JRC) to not publish a study, contradicting the EC's policy choice, on the highly debated press publishers' right (Article 11) at the request of their hierarchy.
Source : European Commission Hides Copyright Evidence Again
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:02PM (1 child)
So you say, TFA is essentially like your comment?
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:14PM
Yeah, that was actually a bit of a joke. I wasn't going to talk about the main concern of TFA at all (since none of the other comments here have yet -- obviously nobody else bothered to read that far), but I thought I'd shove that in at the end, both for information purposes and to make a point through analogy.