EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition

sethherr wrote: post #4

TadaScientist wrote: post #2

Ok, so what can those of us not in Sweden, Germany, Poland or Belgium do?

Go to the article. Click on the button for your country to take action.

you might want to read my question again - I am not a citizen of these countries.

Re: EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition

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Post by kodablah » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 3:44 PM UTC

Action was already taken when large-scale government interference of the internet was cheered on in the past. Since taking the bad with the good of a less-regulated internet wasn't acceptable, we now have to take the bad with the good of a more-regulated internet. Ideally we could have nuance where things work the way they're intended and overreach of power to add legislation wasn't continually leveraged. But reality has shown us it doesn't work that way.

Re: EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition

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Post by umvi » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 3:44 PM UTC

Right to be Forgotten, GDPR, and now this... pretty soon the barrier to entry will be so high that no new players would be able to get off the ground with an internet company in Europe.

Re: EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition

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Post by lixtra » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 3:45 PM UTC

TadaScientist wrote: post #6

sethherr wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go to the article. Click on the button for your country to take action.

you might want to read my question again - I am not a citizen of these countries.

RTFA:

> If you live in the rest of Europe: please contact the ministers working on the Copyright in the Digital Single Market directive. We'll update this page with more information as we get it.

Re: EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition

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Post by kowdermeister » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 3:53 PM UTC

umvi wrote: post #8

Right to be Forgotten, GDPR, and now this... pretty soon the barrier to entry will be so high that no new players would be able to get off the ground with an internet company in Europe.

I want to open a i-shirt store and I'm in the EU. None of these will prevent me.

Edit: typo... t-shirt