Re:European Parliament votes in favour of breaking up Google
by barsoap on Thursday November 27, 2014 @12:54PM
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> On the other hand, I wonder whether the German Pirate Party is able to look beyond what may be construed as an interest of German publishing industry.
It's not actually in that industry's interest and even if in were, no, the Piratenpartei is completely opposed.
Noone is seeing any problem with defending google in one instance, and bashing them in another.
I would generally expect a pirate party to support free-of-charge publishing of snippets and linking to content on the internet as a basis for the open internet. On the other hand, I wonder whether the German Pirate Party is able to look beyond what may be construed as an interest of German publishing industry.