Will the European Union ruin the internet?
I think this proposed law is completely absurd. People who obviously don’t understand how the internet works have created it.<p>For those not familiar. There are two main points that are quite harmful:<p>#1 Mandatory filtering of uploaded user content. This is to prevent possible copyright infringement. There are two things that will happen: the large companies will generate upload filter mechanism that won’t work perfectly so they will deny many uploads. Smaller companies won’t be able sustain an upload functionality. Thanks for killing innovation and supporting large monopolies<p>#2 Link Tax: publishers want to be compensated if you link to their content. This is to prevent google and the like to profit from publishers content without “paying” for it. This is totally absurd. Again, two things will happen: large corporations will stop linking to publishers site (see how google Spain stopped their news offering) and second everybody posting links online publically will become an outlaw.<p>The whole thing is nuts. Please, if you live in the EU, call your MEP about this. @senficon is leading the fight on this.