The European Commission’s proposal on copyright attempts something very ambitious — two different measures that would restrict free speech, squeezed into a single article of a legislative proposal. (…)
1) Requires internet companies to install filtering technology to prevent the upload of content that has been “identified by rightsholders”. (…)
2) Seeks to make internet providers responsible for their users’ uploads. (…)
3) Gives internet users no meaningful protection from unfair deletion of their creations.
Medium: EU Copyright Directive — privatised censorship and filtering of free speech »