This will kill any form of free expression on the Internet in Europe. Join me in considering France, and soon the EU, as an enemy of human rights. The European Convention on Human Rights, Article 10, is dead.
I used to be in favor of the EU, but over the last decade the more I learned about how it operated and what kind of regulations they passed, the more opposed I became to it. Just the fact that they're bringing this proposal back again means that the "lawmakers" have zero respect for the general public.
I agree to an extent. If France decided to implement these laws in their own country, 30 something other countries could shrug and do their own thing, while the French could attempt to fight it on a local or regional level. While the EU has enabled plenty of good, it's also the perfect platform to implement less good policies such as this in the interest of corporations or rightsholders on an intranational level in a way that wasn't possible before. It's also much harder to be heard as a citizen on the EU-level. I'm not sure what the solution should be, since overall I support the EU.
It's not like there's a national place where you can set up shop and protest or strike. It happens on a local or regional level just because of how geography and people work. If the national government doesn't give a shit either way, then I'm not sure what I can realistically suggest here, but it's irrelevant to the point I was making.
Sounds like the reason it went away in the first place wasn't because of concerns of the public, but because Germany and France couldn't agree on the details about who is affected. Given the new proposal, it seems like booth parties might have thought the other's proposal wasn't wide enough.
No, the OP details that the German proposal was to exclude small businesses (<X million per year and <50 employees) but the french wanted the article 13 to hit everyone equally.
I care not. The copyright cartel consistently views profit over human freedom of expression. They, and their bought out politicians, must be called out for their avarice.
