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š¬š§ Huge successes and major setbacks after the vote on the #DigitalServicesAct. We won backing for a right to use services anonymously, but there will be mandatory š±number registration for adult content creators.
Find out who supported and who opposed your digital rights š§µā¬
Find out who supported and who opposed your digital rights š§µā¬
Personal information of millions of EU citizens is hacked and leaked again and again, fuelling cybercrime.
We were now able to secure a majority for a right to use and pay for digital services anonymously in the #DigitalServicesAct!
#Breakthrough
We were now able to secure a majority for a right to use and pay for digital services anonymously in the #DigitalServicesAct!
#Breakthrough
Internet corporations use unreliable #uploadfilters against supposedly illegal content - with much collateral damage. The majority wonāt even limit automated censorship to content that is manifestly illegal irrespective of its context.
#rejected
#rejected
Disappointing news: Advocate General of @EUCourtPress does not recommend the annulation of #Article17. Instead, the provision must be interpreted in a fundamental rights-compliant manner to ensure that only manifestly illegal content gets blocked. A Thread.
The opinion is not a judgment. If the Court follows the AGās recommendation, #Article17 would survive, but it would apply differently than rightsholders hoped for. Member States will have to make sure that legal content is protected from #uploadfilters.
Some Member States have already implemented #Article17 into national law. All but Germany have completely failed to put in place measures to prevent blocking of legal content. Those implementations are likely to violate the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The @EU_Commission may abandon central user rights safeguards against #uploadfilters in its upcoming #copyright guidance on implementation of #Article17! Civil Society groups including @communia_eu @EDRi @EFF are raising the alarm in an open letter today. What happened? A thread.
Last year, @EU_Commission published a draft guidance that said that only obviously copyright-infringing uploads could be blocked by #uploadfilters, trying to convince the European Court of Justice not to strike down #Article17 for violating fundamental rights.
The Court held a hearing on the Polish complaint against #Article17 in November, where the Commission promised that legal uploads, such as parodies or quotations, would be protected. verfassungsblog.de/luxembourg-to-ā¦
I've moved my old #Mastodon-account to another smaller instance to hopefully help keeping instances small so they hopefully never fall under the new insane german (and possibly soon EU-wide) copyright-laws
which f.e. include #Uploadfilters and 125kB-filesize-limits for images big platforms like #Twitter will soon have to implement. You can find my new Mastodon-account under layer8.space/@ChaoticHuman though I will probably be mostly posting in German there
because the already mentioned new German copyright-laws are the main-reason why I became active on #Mastodon again
The entertainment industry has started a campaign to re-write the history of Europe's most controversial #copyright law, #Article17, the infamous #uploadfilter provision. The goal: to bully governments & the @EU_Commission into simply ignoring all user rights that we fought for.
Last year the EU adopted #Article17, which requires platforms to magically prevent #copyright infringement before it happens, while leaving all legal content online, and without generally monitoring user uploads. This is impossible, of course.
Most national governments are waiting for guidance from the @EU_Commission to help them make sense of #Article17. The Commission asked for input on a document with some basic principles, my response with @edri & @freiheitsrechte can be found here:
I want EU citizens to know what happened in their name. The @EU_Commission acted as the long arm of multinational entertainment companies to block progressive #copyright reform in South Africa that would have helped millions of users & authors. A thread.
@EU_Commission On 18 February 2019, entertainment industry trade groups IFPI (music), MPA (Hollywood), FEP (publishers) etc sent a letter to the EU Commission, asking them to intervene in the ongoing South African copyright reform on their behalf. asktheeu.org/en/request/791ā¦
Their claim was that the reform would hurt creators, but actual creators were of a different view. Aside from introducing #fairuse, access to books for blind people and those who can't afford textbooks, the bill would also drastically improve the bargaining position of authors.
Pay Up, Or Weāll Make Google Ban Your Ads krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/pay-upā¦
Extortionists know Google will kill a website's ads and claw back its money if they detect fraudulent clicks, and they know that it's impossible to get anyone at Google to answer the phone if this happens.
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Extortionists know Google will kill a website's ads and claw back its money if they detect fraudulent clicks, and they know that it's impossible to get anyone at Google to answer the phone if this happens.
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From there, it's a pretty simply leap to start to send extortion notices to smaller sites threatening to unleash bots to click on their ads and get their Google accounts killed if they don't pay menaces money.
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This literally happens to every system of algorithmic banning, including Youtube's Content ID, where extortionists threaten to lodge fake copyright complaints against creators' accounts if they aren't paid.
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@TheSchommes @daniel_wwf @HelgaTruepel @ackreti @kylotan @Isarjunge1 @Falkvinge @StefanBrindusa @Jamie_Foxworthy @Michael_02895 @condr3t @Desamii @EagyptM @ronin_sam @GercaAG @helienne @IMPALAMusic @Europarl_EN @EUCouncil @EP_Legal @ro2019eu @GabrielMariya @Ansip_EU @AxelVossMdEP @MinistereCC @BundesKultur @CorinaRascanu @SHKMEP @VRoziere @Piratenpartei @Senficon @doctorow @solmecke I lived in Pulheim (next to Cologneš©šŖ) from 2013ā2017, but my German is not good enough to understand legalese. Iām using Google translate to help me and itās longā¦ Iāll finish tomorrow.
How about Iāll begin with a summary of your argument then?
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How about Iāll begin with a summary of your argument then?
translate.google.com/translate?deptā¦
@TheSchommes @daniel_wwf @HelgaTruepel @ackreti @kylotan @Isarjunge1 @Falkvinge @StefanBrindusa @Jamie_Foxworthy @Michael_02895 @condr3t @Desamii @EagyptM @ronin_sam @GercaAG @helienne @IMPALAMusic @Europarl_EN @EUCouncil @EP_Legal @ro2019eu @GabrielMariya @Ansip_EU @AxelVossMdEP @MinistereCC @BundesKultur @CorinaRascanu @SHKMEP @VRoziere @Piratenpartei @Senficon @doctorow @solmecke ~~~~~~~~~~
Sorry for the midnight drop!
Iāve been working on the English summary of āZensurmaschineā yesterday + today and it took me whole evening to catch up with the discussion in the rest of the thread.
@TheSchommesā abbreviated argument:
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Sorry for the midnight drop!
Iāve been working on the English summary of āZensurmaschineā yesterday + today and it took me whole evening to catch up with the discussion in the rest of the thread.
@TheSchommesā abbreviated argument:
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hornschuh-musik.de/282-2
@TheSchommes @daniel_wwf @HelgaTruepel @ackreti @kylotan @Isarjunge1 @Falkvinge @StefanBrindusa @Jamie_Foxworthy @Michael_02895 @condr3t @Desamii @EagyptM @ronin_sam @GercaAG @helienne @IMPALAMusic @Europarl_EN @EUCouncil @EP_Legal @ro2019eu @GabrielMariya @Ansip_EU @AxelVossMdEP @MinistereCC @BundesKultur @CorinaRascanu @SHKMEP @VRoziere @Piratenpartei @Senficon @doctorow @solmecke Censorship can be done only by the State. Otherwise, a private intervention such as the refusal to publish article by a news publisher would be an act of censorship.
In an hour starts what is supposed to be the last trilogue negotiation on #copyright. @AxelVossMdEP told us heās prepared to make a deal based on completely new text that hasnāt been discussed. None of the shadows agreed with this, itās irresponsible lawmaking! #SaveYourInternet
Yesterday, negotiators from across the political spectrum expressed their dissatisfaction with @AxelVossMdEP negotiation stile. @POLITICOEurope has more: politico.eu/pro/politico-pā¦ #SaveYourInternet
Discussions among governments in Council didnāt go smoothly either yesterday, apparently. Whether there can actually be a deal in the trilogue negotiation today is still wide open. Expect updates during the break around lunchtime and later tonight. #SaveYourInternet
Article 13 vote: The European Parliament endorses #uploadfilters for all but the smallest sites and apps. Anything you want to publish will need to first be approved by these filters, perfectly legal content like parodies & memes will be caught in the crosshairs #SaveYourInternet
The new exclusive right for sports organizers approved by European Parliament by one vote. A catastrophe for sports fans, especially combined with #UploadFilters #SaveYourInternet
Final vote for Parliament position on the copyright directive with #UploadFilters and #LinkTax: adopted. Parliament has failed to listen to citizensā and expertsā concerns. #SaveYourInternet
My speech to @Europarl_EN about tomorrow's copyright/#SaveYourInternet vote (Thread):
Dear colleaguesā Copyright law is complex. When it comes to tomorrow's vote, you're getting a lot of mixed messages. Here's why:
Dear colleaguesā Copyright law is complex. When it comes to tomorrow's vote, you're getting a lot of mixed messages. Here's why:
The problems that @AxelVossMdEP and @EU_Commission want to solve are serious. But they are NOT caused by copyright law. Copyright law can't bring back lost newspaper subscriptions or lost ad revenues.
If that's the problem we want to solve, we need an Online Advertising Regulation ā that's how tech companies actually make their money, how they put the independent press under pressure.
Red alert: On Wednesday, the EU votes on #Article13āa disastrous proposal that would require websites to filter and censor uploaded content.
These #CensorshipMachines would break the Internet as we know it, and we have to stop them. <Thread> eff.org/deeplinks/2018ā¦
These #CensorshipMachines would break the Internet as we know it, and we have to stop them. <Thread> eff.org/deeplinks/2018ā¦
We arenāt alone in the fight. Artists, websites, technologists, and more are up in arms about this looming Internet catastrophe.
@WordPress, @Kickstarter, @Patreon, @Shapeways, @Bandcamp, all say no to #article13 engine.is/news/category/ā¦
@WordPress, @Kickstarter, @Patreon, @Shapeways, @Bandcamp, all say no to #article13 engine.is/news/category/ā¦
Github doesn't want open source developers censored:
