EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition

Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by lbj on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:18AM (#18912229)

Yeah I'm afraid the example is quite real.

But sure, example could be dug up of good things the EU have done. But even in those cases the cost is much too great.

For instance, they built a really nice hallway at the Parliament, but when it came time to name it, they assigned 76 diplomats and the president of the EU to work through the name. That alone ended up costing something like 11 million euros.

I can't think of anything they've done, which hasn't resulted in millions of taxpayers money being poured down the drain. Not surprisingly, the EU has the lowest growth rate in the world.

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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by pas on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:01PM (#18912630)

> Not surprisingly, the EU has the lowest growth rate in the world.

What would be the growth rate without the single market?

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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by gdhbcc on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @07:54PM (#18917317)

Competition breeds excellence

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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by sobani on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:14AM (#18919601)

The EU is big enough to compete with the US and China.

Without the EU, the UK is about as big as California.

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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by garblegarble on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:30PM (#18912951)

>For instance, they built a really nice hallway at the Parliament, but when it came time to name it, they assigned 76 diplomats and the president of the EU to work through the name. That alone ended up costing something like 11 million euros.

Citation please? I can't find anything about that online, and I'd expect that to be a scandal that'd be easily found!

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