The UK state is happy to kowtow to corporate interests, so being out of the EU isn't going to help.Thank heavens the UK is leaving this squalid institution.
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EU approves copyright rules that could kill off user-generated content
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thestaggy
Honorary Master
It's not just the memes. The only reason why I highlighted them is because memes have been politicised as was seen during the Trump-Hillary race and as we saw there, there was a campaign by the left to go after memes being used and created by those supporting Trump. To me this smacks of suppressing speech, thought and expression, disguised as protecting copyrights.
As for the sensationalism you are arguing, both the BBC and The Guardian campaigned heavily for the ''Remain'' vote and The Guardian doesn't hide its pro-EU sentiment. Recently the BBC came under fire from conservatives for an alleged anti-Brexit bias. Both of them ran stories questioning the copyright laws. There goes the anti-EU argument.
Vox Populi Vox Dei
High Tory
They are not posting rubbish though. Maybe read this thread by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) to understand it a bit better: https://mobile.twitter.com/EFF/status/1008624399186968577.
Your rather glib response to a very serious issue suggests you don't understand the dangerous implications of the directive. No wonder it is so easy for authoritarian regimes to come about...
ArtyLoop
Executive Member
George Orwell was a genius hey?
Archer
Honorary Master
The headline is rather misleading. My first impression is that they want large organisations to block content in a fashion similar to how YouTube does it, which hardly stops user generated content from being made now does it? 
The phrase "These measures shall be appropriate and proportionate" says it all.
Having said that, article 13 does seem quite open ended and could be taken way further than that. For instance what or who decides what an appropriate measure is? So it does need to be addressed in some fashion.
As always, I'm curious who has taken the 60 seconds to actually read the proposed law, and who is gobbling up the headlines
The phrase "These measures shall be appropriate and proportionate" says it all. Having said that, article 13 does seem quite open ended and could be taken way further than that. For instance what or who decides what an appropriate measure is? So it does need to be addressed in some fashion.
As always, I'm curious who has taken the 60 seconds to actually read the proposed law, and who is gobbling up the headlines
BeerIsNotGood...
Executive Member
The headline is rather misleading. My first impression is that they want large organisations to block content in a fashion similar to how YouTube does it, which hardly stops user generated content from being made now does it?
Having said that, article 13 does seem quite open ended and could be taken way further than that. For instance what or who decides what an appropriate measure is? So it does need to be addressed in some fashion.
As always, I'm curious who has taken the 60 seconds to actually read the proposed law, and who is gobbling up the headlines
Because everyone just reads mybb nca?
That's exactly what it is. In France they're proposing a law giving authorities the right to censor news in the months leading up to an election under the guise of fighting "fake News"
http://time.com/5304611/france-fake-news-law-macron/
In Germany the German cultural council is calling for political talk shows to be suspended for a year.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2...rman-tv-bosses-told?__twitter_impression=true