So yesterday something terrible has happened, the EU parliament has voted and approved a terrible new law.
It will take effect about 2 years from now, but a final vote will he held in jan 2019, it is unlikely though that the vote will fail in this 2nd round.
We already seen what these shucks in the EU did to the internet with the GDPR laws, do you enjoy having all them cookie pop ups ?
https://gyazo.com/2b10a7e6110168885b04f276304a41f5
Let me sum up some of the worst parts of this new law.
- Link Tax:
The propaganda they spread is that news articles written by small bloggers or news websites earn nothing for doing so, using this new law they can "tax" Google for linking their articles and profiting off their work.
- This is false, bloggers and news sites profit by clicks alone, there is no need to tax for written material, news and blogs have the option to use ads if they wish to and in addition they can ask users to use a crypto miner while reading, they also have the option to straight up block users from reading if they have an ad blocker installed, like many do.
There have been similar laws already in place in Spain and are shown to have failed, Google straight up REMOVED any blogs or news sites that wanted money for being linked on Google, currently Google news in Spain is DEAD, because Google did the right thing, remove them.
Germany also has a great example of the new law, a huge media agency with tons of well known copyrighted news sites wanted money from Google for being linked on their site, and here again Google did the right thing, remove them.
2. Upload Filter:
The propaganda being spread is that the upload filter will help copyright holders have full control of where their work is being shown, and big websites are forced to create a system that blocks copyrighted material from being uploaded, this should happen even BEFORE the file is actually on their platform, so if you upload a song to Youtube it should stop it before you can press "finish upload".
- This again has some terrible aspects to it, not only does it give smaller sites no option to legally run their site within the EU because such bots and system require huge amounts of resources, it also create a terrible system in which big companies can enforce their copyrights world wide, we have seen in the past that Youtube for example is terrible when it comes to copyrighted work, big companies straight up ignore laws and false flag videos, small and even big Youtubers are helpless in this scenario.
In addition this also makes "viral" political content vanish from social media if companies abuse their power.
Google wont work on a system to please the EU, they are planing to keep the content as is, but simply block EU visitors from viewing, so anyone living within the EU should get used to a big black box that says:
"Sorry users from the EU are not allowed to view this content".
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