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For this reason the article seems at least a little alarmist. It wouldn't be news that Estonian politics is delving into censorship/surveillance; tacking on "EU Presidency" just ads faux-gravitas.
It's a proposal to be implemented EU-wide, not just in Estonia, so the presidency seems relevant.
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For this reason the article seems at least a little alarmist. It wouldn't be news that Estonian politics is delving into censorship/surveillance; tacking on "EU Presidency" just ads faux-gravitas.
There are times i wonder if politicians use EU as a "trump card". This in the sense of getting it into a EU directive and then turning around to the nation, stating as it is part of an EU directive their hands are tied...
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Turkey is not part of the EU yet. I don't see how exactly the power "sits with Erdoğan".
Well, I heard people say he controls the flow of the "refugees", so he gets to make some decisions.
I sincerely hope that we will succeed in keeping the internet as democratic as possible and not let it be destroyed by corporate interests in the name 'terrorism prevention'. I'd like to give a shout-out to epicenter.works, an Austrian NGO, which I've been following the last 1.5 years or so. I think it's hard to get the public engaged in these topics, but they seem to be really determined. Here's a google translate l…
The Internet was never democratic. When did you get to vote on anything?
This phrase makes the article seem overly dramatic. The proposed directive is all about copyright and not about censorship in the common sense. So, if I own the copyright (e.g. I wrote a blog post critizing the European Commission), this directive doesn't apply to me.
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Or Erdogan ?
Turkey is not part of the EU yet. I don't see how exactly the power "sits with Erdoğan".
I sincerely hope that we will succeed in keeping the internet as democratic as possible and not let it be destroyed by corporate interests in the name 'terrorism prevention'. I'd like to give a shout-out to epicenter.works, an Austrian NGO, which I've been following the last 1.5 years or so. I think it's hard to get the public engaged in these topics, but they seem to be really determined. Here's a google translate l…
The web page is receiving the "hug of death" right now, and is having difficulty loading. Pasting the content here in case it goes down (I did not include the in-paragraph hyperlinks though). However, here is the leaked document they reference in the first sentence: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/aug/eu-council-copyright... ====================================== A Council of the European Union document leaked by…
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There are times i wonder if politicians use EU as a "trump card". This in the sense of getting it into a EU directive and then turning around to the nation, stating as it is part of an EU directive their hands are tied...
Oh they could, and it might be easier since as far as I know, the general population has very little influence over who gets to sit in the EU government.
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The Internet was never democratic. When did you get to vote on anything?
Anarchy might be a better description, and that too within reason and having been made less and less so over time via law enforcement and such. The dark web is more of that ideal, but you know where that ends up.
To this extend, the Internet's core is very conservative.