Posted on 01/21/2019 4:30:03 PM PST by aimhigh
Either the original plan was a lie and a pretext to expand powers or it has morphed into something it was never meant to be.
Had the EU maintained a laze-fair role in governing it might have worked to the benefit of all.
However it has far exceeded its' original mandate and has become a tyrannical superstate.
Free movement of people didn't not mean millions of people from the middle east and Africa.
The people of Europe we lied to.
Power. It gives Google the power of censorship. Sites they find Conservative they don’t list. Which is what the European Communists want.
It just gets worse.
Article 11 requires online news aggregators like Google, Facebook or Twitter to pay licensing fees to news organizations when showing snippets of their coverage, and forces news organizations to charge these fees... requires a "non-waivable" licensing fee, meaning smaller publishers in need of extra visibility of aggregators like Google can't simply charge a link fee of zero.
There is only one reason for any company/entities to get involved in such an epic con-job like this. And that’s to get in early and then lock everyone else out with walls of punitive regulation/fees/taxes etc.
They want total complete control of the Internet first and foremost.
Of course the main purpose is not really to protect copyright holders, but to put back the power of control over what the peasants can hear, see or read back into the hands of a few media oligarchs.
President Pelosi will probably do the same as soon as she can get rid of Trump and Pence ‘by whatever means’.
With luck Brexit liberates the Daily Mail from EU in 2 months.
Obama did what he could to give them OUR internet.
I’m living in Germany, so far, this rule has not directly impacted FR yet. Indirectly is another story. Multiple times I have clicked on US links from FR that now go to warning label indicating that they are not available in an EU country.
I now routinely keep my VPN hooked to a US server.
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