I understand that the title is a little misleading, but come on!
P.S. I'm italian too.
Besides, as a long time activist for internet freedom, I agree that something like article 13 is urgently needed.
There is no freedom without protection.
What EU is trying to do is to protect the small local EU actors against the tech giants from outside EU.
> Licenses that platforms take out cover uploads by their users, as long as they act non-commercially or “don’t generate significant revenues”
> Uploaders can complain about blocked uploads and request impartial, human review. (it means real justice, not Facebook's justice or Twitter justice or youTube's justice)
Believe it or not, the platforms are already liable in case of legal infringement, it's not really different from before.
Right now YouTube just get away with it because "we have too much content to check".
The small players don't because, well, they are too small to even get a chance to fight.
Are they? From what I understand, in the latest proposal they're not except. Or maybe only when they're less than 3 years old, which isn't very helpful.
The real problem is that the technology for this doesn't even exist, and if it exists, it exists only in the hands of Facebook and Google, forcing everybody else into their arms, giving Facebook and Google even more power.
> Licenses that platforms take out cover uploads by their users, as long as they act non-commercially or “don’t generate significant revenues”
So that means every single blog has to get licenses with an unlimited number of potential rights holders on the off chance that a commenter might quote something from them. That's completely unreasonable.
> Believe it or not, the platforms are already liable in case of legal infringement, it's not really different from before.
It is different, because after this passes, platforms are required to filter using technology that doesn't exist, and will probably err on simply blocking nearly everything from the EU, just to be safe.
Has any of the supporters of this law considered that in order to check all uploads against copyrighted material, every single platform needs access to a database containing every single copyright work? Nowhere have I seen any reasonable explanation of how this is supposed to work.
Available to the public for less than 3 years AND
Annual turnover below €10 million AND
Fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitors
I would count anyone who supports article 13 as opposed to a free EU.
The blank option is of course possible, but I do not like it.
I consider it the lesser evil.
Fake news and propaganda are one obvious target of article 13.
The technical term for what happened here is "jumping the shark" [1]. Accusations of this or that worldview or tendencies is one thing, but injecting conspiracy theories into serious discussion is entirely different ballpark.
Especially when it's already well documented how terrible Article 13 is.
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[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jumping%20th...
There are many proofs about contacts between Lega or 5 star movement and Putin's emissaries.
Unfortunately many of them are in Italian.
Just look for Jacobo Iacoboni articles, that might have been translated and published in english.
His book 'the experiment' is also worth reading.
If anything, I'd expect him to support it, hoping to ruin European internet access.
An anti Euro party, anti EU, anti migration, pro Italian Exit, racist, omophobic, whose leader, who's also interior minister of Italy, has been wearing neo-fascist brands in public, hugging a drug dealer hooligan or recently visited a man who shot in the back an unarmed alleged thief romanian and killed him, declaring him a martyr who deserves pardon.
Or their allies, the 5 star movement, who are just incompetent jackasses.
Thanks, but NO thanks.
BTW they are only opposing to article 13 because Putin asked them to do so.
Italian original article: http://espresso.repubblica.it/plus/articoli/2019/02/21/news/...
In english: https://euobserver.com/foreign/144253