EU Article 11 & 13, much more sinister than incompetence

Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back.

Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated

surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like tweets and Facebook updates; photos; videos; audio; software code — any and all media that can be copyrighted.

 

Three proposals passed the European Parliament, each of them catastrophic for free expression, privacy, and the arts:

1. Article 13: the Copyright Filters. All but the smallest platforms will have to defensively adopt copyright filters that examine everything you post and censor anything judged to be a copyright infringement. […]

Youtube removes all videos by AfS party in Sweden

The AfS is modelled after the AfD party in Germany. A classically liberal party opposed to the replacement of their population with Africans and muslims, and the destruction of rule of law in favour of Marxist doctrines.

Youtube has just removed every one of their videos just 13 days before a general federal election.

Here is the Facebook page for the AfS. Check it and grab it before FB takes it down: