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What good will it do to sign since the enemies of freedom have already taken control of the internet. Obama gave away the U.S. portion of internet freedom to the Chinese when he refused to renew our net neutrality regulation.
It's possible that I may have been in error as to Obama. It was the uranium that he and Hillary sold to the Russians. Will passage of this regulation lead to a European Internet Access Tax?Errr....weren't the net neutrality laws passed under the Obama administration, despite opposition from internet lobby groups. The FCC overcame prior objections by reclassifying ISPs as Title II organizations which put them firmly under regulatory control of the FCC. The Trump administration reversed that decision, returning the ISPs to Title I status.
What am I missing?
My concern is censorship: Already there's been entire social media platforms being taken down (and not everybody on them were right-wing extremists)
And screen-caps would be blocked by upload filter.Here is Australia the worlds third most powerful catholic has been found guilty of child sex abuse and the whole trial and verdict has been suppressed by the courts. The headlines and articles were available on foreign news web sites for about 24 hours in Australia and then disappeared so obviously some Aus government filters have blocked any article that mentions his name reaching here.
Would a pdf of the article or screenshot be blocked? That is how I get updates at present. He is currently on trial for further child sex crimes.And screen-caps would be blocked by upload filter.
There's quite a few ways for servers to filter content.Would a pdf of the article or screenshot be blocked? That is how I get updates at present. He is currently on trial for further child sex crimes.
There's quite a few ways for servers to filter content.
Facial recognition, keyword filtering and so on.
China has perhaps some of the best filtering known to exist, which is how they manage their citizen's content.
In regards to Imperial Japan's naughty late-war fighter, there's a considerable amount of coverage available here in the U.S.
And out of curiosity, is this Guardian article viewable down that way?
George Pell | Australia news | The Guardian
This shouldn't be quoted -- it should be viewed as useful information that could be made into a meme.GrauGeist said:What the ultimate goal of the EU copyright law is, will be essentially to make users licensed in order to access content. And with that goal, backed by Article 11, a "snippet tax" will be levied on sites that even use a portion (or quote) of a copyrighted article, again, like exists everywhere on this site in the various threads. I should also mention that I have posted my own photos to this site (which have embedded copyright info in the files), but technically, under the proposed copyright law, members of this site would have to be licensed in order to view them.
Clearly, this would mean the end of smaller websites, as they cannot afford the required file scanning servers as well as the fees and taxes. Larger sites will be able to afford the nessecary hardware, but this additional cost will have to be passed on to end-users in order to stay solvent.
The issue goes far beyond what I've covered, but in the end, the goal is to literally turn the internet into a licensed revenue generator and that's not acceptable.