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My speech to @Europarl_EN about tomorrow's copyright/#SaveYourInternet vote (Thread):
Dear colleagues— Copyright law is complex. When it comes to tomorrow's vote, you're getting a lot of mixed messages. Here's why:
Dear colleagues— 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 – that's how tech companies actually make their money, how they put the independent press under pressure.
German Christian Democrats are using mafia methods to stop their European party colleagues from voting against the #LinkTax. Knowing they have all the facts and experts against them, they resort to threats. #fixcopyright #SavetheLink eutoday.net/news/politics/… 
CDU/CSU bedroht europäische Abgeordnete ihrer Fraktion: Wenn sie nicht für das #Leistungsschutzrecht stimmen, verlieren sie ihre Posten. Fraktionskollege spricht von „besorgniserregender“ Einmischung deutscher Verlage. eutoday.net/news/politics/… #FixCopyright #SaveTheLink
Der Artikel wurde inzwischen gelöscht (Original hier web.archive.org/web/2018052917… ) und das anonyme Zitat, das von Erpressung durch die CDU berichtet, wurde durch Lob für das #Leistungsschutzrecht durch Fraktionsmitglieder und Axel Springer ersetzt: eutoday.net/news/business-… 🧐 #LSR
