EU Countries Back Copyright Reforms Aimed at Google, Facebook

Re:EU Countries Back Copyright Reforms Aimed at Google, Face... by strictnein on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:07AM (#19217316)

Nothing you've posted is accurate or true.

Like, literally nothing.

There won't be "10 different versions" of these filters on Github for free. How do you even imagine that will work? There will need to be a constantly updated and massive database of signatures for all copyrighted materials. That's not something that can be done for free and you can guarantee it will have a significant price tag attached

Free speech in the EU is not as protected as in the US. Full stop.

There is no surveillance of what citizens say online in the US. People in the EU are arrested for mean tweets.

There are many uses of copyrighted material that are covered under free use in the US. You can, for instance, critique a movie while using segments of that movie.

Journalists aren't not getting paid because Google has a small blurb underneath a link to their article. Google is driving traffic to their articles.

Europe should tax Amazon? Huh?

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Re:EU Countries Back Copyright Reforms Aimed at Google, Face... by sonnyblarney on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:41AM (#19217571)

Even though you are correct, this issue is still not a matter of free speech.

We've had copyright protections for some time, they're now being enforced.

I don't agree with it, but neither this is not about free speech or 'media spin' on the story.

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Re:EU Countries Back Copyright Reforms Aimed at Google, Face... by DuskStar on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:40AM (#19218045)

If it restricts what you can say, how you can say it, or who you can say it to, it's a free speech issue. The restrictions being "copyright" doesn't change that fact.

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