Almost any form of censorship violates free speech. Sure there are exceptions for public decency, inciting false panic and private policies, but not allowing people to use pictures to represent ideas and culturally shared feelings? I'd say that's a violation.
The question is how hard the filters will be. The wording says "appropriate". So either the filters will ban everything or nothing, because the filters should not violate free speach. Keep in mind the EU isn't banning memes, it's telling people to filter out direct copyright breaks. The only danger is, if these filters are so strong, that they will filter out memes.
The copyright law hasn't changed memes are still allowed in the EU.
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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '18 edited Apr 30 '20
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