Guest post by A controversial overhaul of the EU’s copyright law that sparked a fierce debate between internet giants and content creators has been rejected.
The proposed rules would have put more responsibility on websites to check for copyright infringements, and forced platforms to pay for linking to news.
Unfortunately this hasn’t been rejected but postponed so there can be a proper discussion about this in September. Hopefully amendments will be made that stop this being so completely at odds with what the Internet is all about.
Not even that, they’ve just rejected the Trialogue making a decision that can’t be amended by the parliament.
All this vote means is that the proposed law will have the opportunity to be amended by the EU Parliament instead of it being a “take it or leave it” vote later on.
The EU legislative processes are terrible.
I think it’s time to make Tor part of every browser…
china is pretty good at blocking Tor, why do you think it would be any different elsewhere?
why do people blindly trust Tor?
It was developed by the US military and funded for a long time by them.
They released the code.
Seems like a nice honeypot to me ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#History
Sums it up nicely, I think.
That’s only part of it, though. You have to trust the exit nodes. There’s no mechanism of trust for the exit nodes. This has been a real problem for years, and there’s no reason to suspect that police agencies & state actors aren’t actively exploiting it. I would, if I were them, given how trivial it is.
^aEUR|, they will pass it later this year after re-phrasing some minor sentences. As usual in the not very democratic EU apparatus
That’s because it’s not a democracy. It’s a republic.
Whooops, accidentally channeled an American.