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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Does the EU have an army capable of collecting a tax it (as a foreign government) trys to levy on American citizens in America?
Cut off their IP address range. Watch their advertisers scream and holler.
Freerepublic has no physical presence in Europe.
Exactly. If they don’t want american content, they can block it.
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.
Pound sand, EU. Perhaps you will make glass.
Yabut we do have an internet presence.
This is kinda a whole new area of law, I suspect.
“This “link tax” would destroy FR.”
Sounds like something King George would have done if the internet had been around in the 1770’s.
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.
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.
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....
It's the only way to be sure.
Many good reasons we should all be using TOR. But, everyone likes the shiny stuff..
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