John Archer has told us nigh some hints that a shocking police affecting the Internet – which makes GDPR await similar a lollipop inwards comparing – is getting prepared past times the European Union's authorities. The novel neb is framed equally a copyright neb but if approved – in addition to the European Union Parliament is going to vote inwards 3 weeks – it would stand upwards for the most shocking censorship of the Internet that has e'er been introduced inwards whatsoever solid soil of the world, including China, Iran, in addition to North Korea.
Some Czech Internet users honey this meme – an response of a woman somebody pensioner inwards a poll:
Ms Věra Pohlová, 72 years, pensioner: These affairs are alone annoying everybody. I would ban all these internets [sic] in addition to computers.Well, the European Union plans to heed to Ms Pohlová, it seems.
So far I am allowed to link to other websites in addition to then hither yous accept some relevant sources:
The European Union is nigh to destroy the Internet (11 minutes, YouTube)If the summary is accurate enough, the proposal is shocking.
Forget The GDPR, The EU's New Copyright Proposal Will Be Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Complete And Utter Disaster For The Internet (TechDirt)
EU Moves Closer To Introducing 'Link Tax' – No Exceptions Allowed (Forbes)
EU’s disruptive ‘copyright reform’ moves closer to passage (Martech Today)
Censorship machines (Julia Reda, a worried Green MEP's explanations)
Petition against the bill, more links
Some people patently violate other people's institutions' copyrights. But there's a means to learn by it: Prevent everybody from using whatsoever other textile inwards whatsoever form.
The novel neb would effectively forcefulness all big Internet companies to innovate upload filters. If there's whatsoever slice inwards your file that agrees amongst whatsoever slice of anything that is copyrighted, it would last impossible to upload it to the Internet.
More seriously, it would forbid all creators of the Internet content – including bloggers – from quoting the textile that may last said to belong to somebody. Most shockingly, it would forbid us fifty-fifty from linking to the source.
That would brand a civilized serious fence nigh anything impossible because such a fence oft requires the sourcing. In other words, the Internet is built on hypertext in addition to the psyche deviation betwixt a text in addition to a hypertext is this unproblematic tag:
<a href="https://.../...">highlighted text</a>You mightiness quote or utilisation hyperlinks but yous would accept to learn a permission from all people inwards the basis – which may or may non include all the extraterrestrial aliens, depending on which version they volition support. Clearly, the status is impossible to satisfy. Some texts utter nigh bans of the hyperlinks, other texts utter nigh a taxation that yous accept to pay for every hyperlink, the details aren't clear yet.
Big companies would learn an exception – but they would accept to cooperate. They would accept to innovate all the filters into their software in addition to proceed all their users nether command in addition to then that these users aren't inconvenient for the European Union government inwards whatsoever way.
Please, contact your members of the European Parliament – assuming that you're from a solid soil that yet has at to the lowest degree i sane representative. This seems to last a frontal laid on on the Western civilization. If "ordinary plenty people" lose their correct to quote others or link to sources, I would certainly back upwards the move out from the European Union fifty-fifty if it meant a 30% drib of the GDP.
Yesterday, I was shocked past times the aggressiveness of the pro-EU jihadists on Twitter again. They made it clear that they desire to restore totalitarianism – amongst updated holy cows.
Young lawmaker Mr January Skopeček (ODS) – whom I know inwards somebody in addition to who is corking – gave a real persuasive interview on the Czech world TV. I recollect that his opinions are extremely unopen to mine although he may last to a greater extent than capable of controlling his emotions, or whatever. So he equally good praised the trips of his students (he equally good teaches economics) to other European countries. But he dared to cite that it's bad when these trips are beingness linked to the back upwards for political interests of some particular parties or officials inwards Brussels.
I wouldn't believe it but this innocent, self-evidently justified wishing became a argue for Skopeček to last viciously attacked on Twitter – past times a immature European Union apparatchik Prouza, old finance government minister Kalousek (boss of TOP09, a pocket-size formally center-right but heavily PC Parliamentary party), in addition to others. They recollect that the schools are obliged to learn the kids to honey our officials inwards the European Union, the European integration, in addition to other things. It has to last done, otherwise nosotros would learn a piece of employment of Russian Federation – in addition to all this staggering garbage. You tin forcefulness out imagine that I joined this flamewar. One final result was that after nosotros exchanged several tweets in addition to I clearly won, Kalousek blocked me. He volition lose lots of likes – because I had been liking many tweets of his, peculiarly those criticizing some non-democratic steps past times the acting prime number government minister Babiš.
If I had to select inwards betwixt 2 evils, Kalousek's EU-style totalitarianism in addition to Babiš, in addition to if I knew that Babiš would alone alter the status quo past times redirecting a few billion dollars into his pockets, I would select Babiš.
These PC people accept non alone introduced fell pro-EU indoctrination into schools. They accept moved into some other phase inwards which this indoctrination has been "outed" in addition to they openly claim that it's the correct thing. Well, things are genuinely worse. They accept entered some other phase inwards which they volition laid on yous simply for suggesting that the schools shouldn't indoctrinate the people.
It's totally clear that these totalitarian fanatics wouldn't run across anything incorrect nigh the outright censorship of the Internet. Because of the proposed criminal grapheme of a generic hyperlink in addition to because hyperlinks are what turns a collection of texts into the Internet, what the European Union neb is preparing isn't simply some censorship of the Internet. It is the ban of the Internet equally nosotros accept known it.
This has to last stopped. I volition last contacting the Czech MEPs afterward today.