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posted by mrpg on Friday April 19 2019, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
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EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content'

Update: The Internet Archive has issued a minor correction to its original story, noting that it was not actually Europol who sent the demand, but rather the French Internet Referral Unit using the Europol system, so that it looked like it was coming from Europol.

[...] We've been trying to explain for the past few months just how absolutely insane the new EU Terrorist Content Regulation will be for the internet. Among many other bad provisions, the big one is that it would require content removal within one hour as long as any "competent authority" within the EU sends a notice of content being designated as "terrorist" content. The law is set for a vote in the EU Parliament just next week.

And as if they were attempting to show just how absolutely insane the law would be for the internet, multiple European agencies (we can debate if they're "competent") decided to send over 500 totally bogus takedown demands to the Internet Archive last week, claiming it was hosting terrorist propaganda content.

And just in case you think that maybe the requests are somehow legit, they are so obviously bogus that anyone with a browser would know they are bogus. Included in the list of takedown demands are a bunch of the Archive's "collection pages" including the entire Project Gutenberg page of public domain texts, it's collection of over 15 million freely downloadable texts, the famed Prelinger Archive of public domain films and the Archive's massive Grateful Dead collection. Oh yeah, also a page of CSPAN recordings. So much terrorist content!

Also at Boing Boing.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @06:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @06:52AM (#832065)

    as long as any "competent authority" within the EU sends a notice

    I think we've established the case then that FIRU is not competent. And if their notices are indistinguishable from others using the same system, then the entire system should be considered without authority.

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