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Re:Article 13 is almost finished and will change the interne... by haywirez on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:41AM (#18882774)
Correct - this proposal is coming from the EPP, the largest party in the EU parliament. Predictably, most of their MEPs will just blindly vote for it along party lines. Language barriers are crucial in terms of their constituency universe (plus the older demographic skew). Their voters don't read Reddit, Twitter or anything in English and this issue is nowhere near their radars.
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Re:Article 13 is almost finished and will change the interne... by toyg on Friday January 11, 2019 @10:21AM (#18884076)
> Their voters don't read Reddit, Twitter or anything in English

That's a bit patronizing, and a view of internet users that belongs to the '90s. These voters might (for example) like memes and forums very much, but not value them enough to shift political alliances over a proposal like this. Not everyone lives 10 hours a day on the internet.

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