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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
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday June 06 2018, @05:53PM
As someone pointed out, I have no idea where I got it from, probably random soylent comment. GitHub is being vacated by a goodly number of people. Please see one of the recent posts on Gitlab's Twitter page. https://twitter.com/gitlab [twitter.com]
0 imports from GitHub in late May 2018. Up to 98,300 imports from GitHub to GitLab on 06/05/2018. I would call that a serious shift. It just might have something to do with who acquired GitHub recently.
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