EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
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Re: EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
#2Can we direct some of the GDPR ire at this please, because this is (a) genuinely bad for everyone except a few legacy publishers and (b) not yet finalised?
Re: EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
#3Playing devil’s advocate: What if the link tax will replace advertising as the main source or revenue for publishers? Wouldn’t that be a Good Thing (TM)?
Re: EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
#4GDPR and the proposed copyright laws will break the internet irrecoverably.
The start-up industry will be a long forgotten dream.
These old b@$%%%s will turn the internet into cable television.
Scumbags would want to go back to a world of slavery, colonisation and wealth locked up as gold in personal treasuries.
I hope all the other countries follow suit and then the only thing we will be able to aim for is a job in these government bodies or the few surviving monopolies.
Sorry for my language.
Re: EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
#5GDPR and the proposed copyright laws will break the internet irrecoverably. The start-up industry will be a long forgotten dream. These old b@$%%%s will turn the internet into cable television. Scumbags would want to go back to a world of slavery, colonisation and wealth locked up as gold in personal treasuries. I hope all the other countries follow suit and then the only thing we will be able to aim for is a job in…
GDPR and the proposed copyright laws will break the internet irrecoverably.
Yeah but there's nothing wrong with that per se. It's the EU's choice to return to the stone age. There are Amish communities in the US where nobody has computers and their primary form of transportation is horses and buggies [1]. The rest of the world will simply move on, and like Amish communities, those in the EU that wish to participate in modern society can simply move.
Re: EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
#6It would be great if all these new regulations only applied to companies of X size. Scrappy startups with no access to good lawyers and understanding of these regulations are more likely to suffer vs the big guys who were the cause of all of these changes in the first place.
Re: EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
#7GDPR and the proposed copyright laws will break the internet irrecoverably. The start-up industry will be a long forgotten dream. These old b@$%%%s will turn the internet into cable television. Scumbags would want to go back to a world of slavery, colonisation and wealth locked up as gold in personal treasuries. I hope all the other countries follow suit and then the only thing we will be able to aim for is a job in…
GDPR and the proposed copyright laws will break the internet irrecoverably. Yeah but there's nothing wrong with that per se. It's the EU's choice to return to the stone age. There are Amish communities in the US where nobody has computers and their primary form of transportation is horses and buggies [1]. The rest of the world will simply move on, and like Amish communities, those in the EU that wish to participate i…
I'd argue the EU is "moving fast and breaking things" because the industry was incapable of self-regulating.
Re: EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
#8GDPR and the proposed copyright laws will break the internet irrecoverably. The start-up industry will be a long forgotten dream. These old b@$%%%s will turn the internet into cable television. Scumbags would want to go back to a world of slavery, colonisation and wealth locked up as gold in personal treasuries. I hope all the other countries follow suit and then the only thing we will be able to aim for is a job in…
This is unnecessarily alarmist and hilarious. It's clear that personal information and other data was not properly respected by many startups and large companies. Data "breaches" and the various apology tours have shown a massive loophole in the law, and now the law is responding by closing the loophole.
If your business was profiting specifically by exploiting personal information, this would be a sad day for you but a "good riddance" moment for the rest of the world. If you have a legitimate business that isn't underpinned by such odious behaviors, this demands a small review of your business practices but is generally a good thing.
Re: EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
#9It would be great if all these new regulations only applied to companies of X size. Scrappy startups with no access to good lawyers and understanding of these regulations are more likely to suffer vs the big guys who were the cause of all of these changes in the first place.
I'm an advisor to several startup European search engines which are likely to be annihilated by the combination of these changes and the GDPR.
Re: EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
#10Playing devil’s advocate: What if the link tax will replace advertising as the main source or revenue for publishers? Wouldn’t that be a Good Thing (TM)?
Coming up next: European publishers discover that search engines preferentially link non-European publishers due to the link tax.
Coming up after that: More unexpected effects.