EU businesses sign open letter against copyright directive articles 11 and 13
<i>Especially Article 13 is dangerously experimenting with the core foundation of the Internet’s ecosystem. Making companies directly liable for the content of their users forces these businesses to make billions of legal decisions about the legality of content. Most companies are neither equipped nor capable of implementing the automatic content filtering mechanisms this requires, which are expensive and prone to error.</i><p>Crap grammar and rubbish sentence construction, whilst opining, will rarely make friends.<p>The letter is a dreadful example of how to not plead a case.  It has several bold sections that are are shouty - use italics instead.<p><i>Although the purpose of these regulations is to limit the powers of big US Internet companies like Google or Facebook,</i> This may be true but again it is not the way to take the moral high ground.  Do you have proof of that assertion?<p>If I was one of those 130 businesses and was charged for that letter then I would feel seen off.  I do own a small business in the UK and I will not put my tiny weight behind that rubbish.  I acknowledge some of the issues mentioned are potentially a problem but the message is garbled so badly as to be unusable.