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Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’

posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 05 2018, @07:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the oh-noes dept.

canopic jug writes:

A crucial vote is coming up later this month in the EU's move to change its copyright laws. The proposed plans included mandatory content filters and a so-called link tax to be paid by sites linking to other sites, articles 13 and 11 respectively. TorrentFreak writes about the current status of the legislation and of the deadline to fix or block the proposed EU copyright legislation is coming up quickly and time is running out to salvage the situation regarding rules which will drastically affect the Internet.

Earlier on SN
European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse
Censorship Machines Are Coming: It's Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout
Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @08:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @08:10AM (#689221)

    Unlike the EU, freedom of speech kind of matters in the US.

    More so than the EU, sure, but not completely. Obscenity laws, FCC censorship, free speech zones, NSLs, the war on whistleblowers, and so on are all unconstitutional, and yet they are accepted practices by our authoritarian courts. We already have countless draconian copyright laws on the books, so I'm not entirely sure that something similar couldn't happen here.