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Can the EU Survive Its Own Censorship?

Can the EU Survive Its Own Censorship? The EU’s new, comprehensive new Copyright Directive passed the European Parliament ensuring the way we use the Internet will change in the future. And not for the better. The controversial parts are Articles 11 and 13, the “link tax” and the “upload filter” requirements. For a good run […]

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Yes, the EU’s New #CopyrightDirective is All About Filters

Yes, the EU’s New #CopyrightDirective is All About Filters When the EU started planning its new Copyright Directive (the “Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive”), a group of powerful entertainment industry lobbyists pushed a terrible idea: a mandate that all online platforms would have to create crowdsourced databases of “copyrighted materials” and then block […]

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Don’t share this! EU’s new copyright law could kill the free internet

Don’t share this! EU’s new copyright law could kill the free internet © Xesai / Getty Images It’s basically a battle between billionaires Axel Springer SE and Google. But it is ordinary internet users who will fall victim to the EU’s new copyright law, which urgently needs modification. It’s good to share. But the European […]

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New EU Copyright Law Could Force Online Platforms To Ban Memes Across Europe

New EU Copyright Law Could Force Online Platforms To Ban Memes Across Europe A new law being just passed in European Parliament and in the process of becoming finalized has received scant media attention, but could be nothing short of revolutionary in terms of its lasting impact on the internet, political speech and discourse, and the […]

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Social Media vs the Constitution

Social Media vs the Constitution Salvador Dali The burning giraffe 1937 Dali: “The only difference between immortal Greece and our era is Sigmund Freud who discovered that the human body, which in Greek times was merely neoplatonical, is now filled with secret drawers only to be opened through psychoanalysis.”An ancient Latin saying goes: “Quod licet […]

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All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared

All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared Friday’s release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement. And it dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most […]

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Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg

Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg Trade deal could slam Canadians with rising consumer, health care and education costs The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed trade agreement that encompasses nearly 40 per cent of world GDP, heads to Hawaii later this month for ministerial-level negotiations. According to media reports, this may […]

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