The European Parliament has given final approval to the Copyright Directive, a controversial package of legislation designed to update copyright law in Europe for the internet age.
Members of parliament voted 348 in favor of the law and 274 against. A last-minute proposal to remove the law’s most controversial clause — Article 13 or the ‘upload filter’ — was narrowly rejected by just five votes. The directive will now be passed on to EU member states, who will translate it into national law.
The United States Congress doesn’t have a monopoly on stupid decisions – especially when you take into account that said five vote difference was… A mistake. A group of left-leaning MEPs voted in favour… By accident.
I know you don’t host user content here aside from comments, but you do have tons of links. Will you be able to afford the link tax? I hate that a bunch of sites I frequent from Europe might wind up going away. 🙁
The Sweden Democrats, who misvoted, are not left-leaning, they’re very much right wing. Just wanted to put that out there.
So there is an official practice for people that press the wrong buttons so that gets documented but not corrected?
The people that decide on these issues literally cannot be trusted to press a correct button?
My 2.5 year old can correctly adjust the volume up/down on a Sonos One! (for those that don’t understand why that would be hard…they are the 4 dots on the left …and right on this image: https://content.sonos.com/cdn_static/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-sonos-master/default/dw33d31920/images/one/one-top-black.jpg)