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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm... by Devils_Avocado on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:32AM (#18327814)
> I just can’t believe that the EU ... actually ... tries to regulate something it does not really understand just because...

This is generally how government works! But it's even worse than usual in the EU, since it's an unaccountable transnational mega-bureaucracy; MEPs are not directly elected, they are appointed by their political party after proportional representation votes (which haven't had turnout higher than 50% since 1994).

You think Congress is beholden to lobbyists now? Imagine how bad it'd be if state representatives could get "re-elected" each term without ever having to put their record to a public vote!

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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm... by martimarkov on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:50AM (#18327946)
Actually not 100% true with the MEPs because it's up to each individual member state.

I think in Bulgaria you had to vote for a political party and a person from it. Then add proportianl representation and the ppl with the most votes in each party will go into the EP based on their respective % of the total votes. (idk if this makes sense as it might sound a bit confusing)

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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm... by SaltyBackendGuy on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:36AM (#18328338)
It's confusing on purpose.
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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm... by aleksei on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:07PM (#18328616)
It's not confusing on purpose. Coordinating law, economy and movement of people across 28 countries is just fucking complex.
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