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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by pexaizix on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:27PM (#19157748)
EU busybodies are unaccountable, unelected and practically live in another dimension. There's no way something like the SOPA protests could work here.
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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by isostatic on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:37AM (#19160069)
MEPs are elected. They are accountable via votes every 5 years.
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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by c3o on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:51PM (#19157918)
In fact, they already did: The ACTA protests.
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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by rmoriz on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:23PM (#19158160)
True. But mostly due to anti-americanism.

I was strongly against ACTA because it was kind of a black box, I supported one of the biggest events in Germany against it.

But I had hopes that we could change the way such big contracts are getting designed and agreed upon. How naively I was...

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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by ionised on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:50AM (#19160967)
> True. But mostly due to anti-americanism.

I'd love to see you prove this.

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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by rmoriz on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:57AM (#19169701)
Just listen to members of the left party or the pirate party. That was also a reason I left and quit all my political work.
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