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EU smacks internet in the face with link tax and upload filter laws
ZD-NET ^ | September 12, 2018 | By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Posted on 09/12/2018 5:10:05 PM PDT by Lazamataz

On Sept. 12, European Parliament voted for the Copyright Directive. This updating of online copyright tries to make certain media companies and publishers are paid for their work when shared on Facebook or YouTube and aggregated by such sites as Google News.

Articles 11 and 13 of this law has been harshly criticized both by internet experts and companies. Article 11 grants publications copyright over any online content sharing. In practice, this means sites could charge services like Hacker News and Reddit for aggregating their stories. This is being called a link tax.

Article 13 requires content sharing sites to deploy "effective content recognition" technology to filter out copyright-protected content. This requires any content-sharing site to scan any shared videos, music, images, etc., for copyright violations.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: article11; article13; europe; europeanunion; facebook; google; hackernews; internet; reddit; youtube
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To: Cyclops08
THis is an anti-free speech law. But then Europe was never into that freedom thing to begin with.

It's a little shocking how devoted to tyranny, Europe is.

It boggles the mind we shed one drop of American blood in WWII. At least the Nazi's were honest about what they intended.

21 posted on 09/12/2018 5:36:01 PM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: SkyDancer

I shared for for information purposes.They explain it here. The dark web is where all the elicit stuff is within the TOR deep web net.

Something interesting is that the internet we use now is only about 10% of the web. Tor is the balance.


22 posted on 09/12/2018 5:36:18 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Lazamataz

The British once tried to collect a tax on our tea. And they tried to confiscate our guns. Didn’t workout very well for them.


23 posted on 09/12/2018 5:39:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: goldstategop

Something important... The dark web is just a part within the TOR deep web where the illegal stuff happens. Most of the TOR is on the up and up. Just have to use discretion because it’s completely unregulated.


24 posted on 09/12/2018 5:43:14 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Jim Robinson; John Robinson; Mr. K
The British once tried to collect a tax on our tea. And they tried to confiscate our guns. Didn’t workout very well for them.

Yeah. And this time we got nukes.

Still, there is one immediate (and simple) fix you can implement:

Remove all links in article posts, and disallow the < a href and < img src tags.

Those two things would allow you to avoid being taxed by Europe... however, you might make a bid to the SCOTUS that the taxes imposed by Europe cannot apply here. This time, I bet you might win.

25 posted on 09/12/2018 5:44:14 PM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Jim Robinson

And ... how cool would it be to do the SCOTUS thing again, but win this time? You might get on a crowdfunding platform, which didn’t exist back then, and raise a few mil to take the case to SCOTUS.


26 posted on 09/12/2018 5:45:47 PM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Lazamataz

Does the EU have an army capable of collecting a tax it (as a foreign government) trys to levy on American citizens in America?


27 posted on 09/12/2018 5:49:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Cut off their IP address range. Watch their advertisers scream and holler.


28 posted on 09/12/2018 5:52:27 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Jim Robinson
The British once tried to collect a tax on our tea. And they tried to confiscate our guns. Didn’t workout very well for them.

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29 posted on 09/12/2018 5:55:00 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump!)
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To: Lazamataz

Freerepublic has no physical presence in Europe.


30 posted on 09/12/2018 5:55:17 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: thoughtomator

Exactly. If they don’t want american content, they can block it.


31 posted on 09/12/2018 5:56:02 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Jim Robinson
Does the EU have an army capable of collecting a tax it (as a foreign government) trys to levy on American citizens in America?

I really couldn't tell you about how international taxes work, and this might be the SCOTUS case I referenced....

.... but I do know they have an army of lawyers.

I think, so long as Trump gets another SCOTUS placement, this would be a slam-dunk for freedom.

32 posted on 09/12/2018 5:56:51 PM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Lazamataz

Pound sand, EU. Perhaps you will make glass.


33 posted on 09/12/2018 5:57:14 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: cuban leaf
Freerepublic has no physical presence in Europe.

Yabut we do have an internet presence.

This is kinda a whole new area of law, I suspect.

34 posted on 09/12/2018 5:57:47 PM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Lazamataz

“This “link tax” would destroy FR.”

Sounds like something King George would have done if the internet had been around in the 1770’s.


35 posted on 09/12/2018 5:59:09 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: Lazamataz

An internet site is not responsible for those who access it. Imagine China doing this sort of thing, and allowing their citizens to access all of the internet.

The internet is not push. It’s pull. Freerepublic is a site hosted in the US. If folks from outside the country get on the web and access it, If they are from a country that charges a penny for every bit that they collect from FR, that is on them, not FR.

FR’s responsibility for that stops at the US border.

Now, if FR rents space in Germany, never mind.


36 posted on 09/12/2018 6:02:00 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Lazamataz

Nothing new about it. The EU can’t do squat for the same reason the US can’t do squat about Chinese hackers. The law can’t be applied outside its jurisdiction, and the government which does have jurisdiction is not going to help.


37 posted on 09/12/2018 6:04:48 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: Lazamataz

It will be interesting to see what they will do when they realize that it’s impeding some of the faggotry that goes on online. Of course I’m specifically referring to all the “fan” made material where perverts feel compelled to produce faggy poofterized and transgender variations of someone else’s work simply because perversion cannot tolerate a vacuum of perversion.

I’m not referring to fan made material that doesn’t add all this poofterized “zest” ... at least not unless it’s already there ... but only to those who add, embellish and play up faggotry.

As such I will be interested to see how, as I believe they ultimately will do, they manage to hew out some faggotry friendly exception to the rules so that the homosexual subculture can continue to rage unimpeeded even as they clamp down on everyone else who are just ordinary fans.

... well, except for the Muslims of course. Gotta figure they’ll get an exemption of some sort too....


38 posted on 09/12/2018 6:05:13 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: cuban leaf
We should nuke Europe from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

39 posted on 09/12/2018 6:06:58 PM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Openurmind

Many good reasons we should all be using TOR. But, everyone likes the shiny stuff..


40 posted on 09/12/2018 6:12:09 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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