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Censorship Machines or citizens? EU Parliament decides on Wednesday
The best option for dealing with a bad proposal is to delete it, so this is what MEPs should be asked to vote for.
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Copyright: Compulsory filtering instead of obligatory filtering – a compromise?
Tomorrow, 5 September 2018 at 12h CEST, is the deadline to table amendments to the proposed Copyright Directive. T
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Action Week against Upload Filters
We are in a crucial moment in the fight against upload filters. On 12 September the Plenary of the EP will be voting on new versions of the texts, and we need to make clear that upload filters have no place there.
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Women on Waves: how internet companies police our speech
Increasingly, internet companies decide which content we're allowed to publish and receive.
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ENDitorial: The Commission’s new filtering adventure
In September 2017, the European Commission adopted a “Communication” on illegal content online, full of demands that somebody – but not them and not the Member States – should do something to fight illegal content online. With this move, the European Commission managed to generate some good publicity for itself.
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How the EU copyright proposal will hurt the web and Wikipedia
Wikimedia is an integral part of a large movement of civil society stakeholders, technologists, creators, and human rights defenders, who all recognize the importance of a free and open web for culture, progress, and democracy. Our movement is working to promote freedom online for the benefit of all. Our efforts in this public policy realm […]
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Action plan against the first obligatory EU internet filter
Many feared (and some hoped) that the European Parliament’s JURI Committee vote on the 20th of June would be the end of our campaign, as well as the end of the open internet. Not so fast, the censorship machine is not a done deal!
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Re-Deconstructing upload filters proposal in the copyright Directive
This week we have published a new analysis of the proposal for upload filters in the Copyright Directive proposal. The paper is a new paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of relevant parts in the text adopted by the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (JURI Committee). The work complements our first analysis of the initial proposal by […]
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Restoring freedom of expression in Spain: end the “gag law”
Spain has been one of the countries of the European Union that has most shamefully stood out for its government’s attitude against freedom of expression and information.
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Moving Parliament’s copyright discussions into the public domain
With just eleven months to go before the 2019 European elections, European citizens’ reactions to certain aspects of the Copyright Directive mean that there is more interest than ever in what decisions are being made by the European Parliament, as well as how these decisions are made.
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We can still win: Next steps for the Copyright Directive
On the 20th of June 2018, the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) ignored all advice and voted for the chaotic Article 13 of the proposed Copyright Directive. There are several steps for the EU institutions to go through before the Directive can finally be adopted. We can still win!
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Press release: MEPs ignore expert advice and vote for mass internet censorship
In a vote today, 20 June 2018, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament voted for a Copyright Directive, which includes measures to monitor and filter virtually all uploads to the internet.
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