{"id":366176,"date":"2018-06-21T02:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T01:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/eu-votes-for-memes-ban-and-censorship-machines-what-now\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T02:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T01:39:48","slug":"eu-votes-for-memes-ban-and-censorship-machines-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/eu-votes-for-memes-ban-and-censorship-machines-what-now\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Votes for Memes Ban and Censorship Machines \u2014 What Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs just voted \u2018yes\u2019 on highly controversial parts of the EU\u2019s new Copyright Reform. The controversial articles \u2014 11 and 13 \u2014 effectively establish link tax, censorship machines, and <a href=\"news\/memes-will-be-banned-under-new-eu-copyright-law-warn-campaigners\" target=\"_blank\">ban memes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There was heavy resistance to the contested articles from internet activists, lobbyists, and members of European Parliament (MEPs), but all was for nought and the articles passed with a 13:12 and 15:10 majority.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EP_Legal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EP_Legal<\/a> has adopted both Article 11 (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/linktax?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#linktax<\/a>) and Article 13 (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CensorshipMachines?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CensorshipMachines<\/a>). It\u2019s a dark day for the open web, but the fight will continue in the upcoming plenary vote in the European Parliament. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveYourInternet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveYourInternet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveTheLink?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveTheLink<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FixCopyright?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FixCopyright<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Creative Commons (@creativecommons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/creativecommons\/status\/1009363405646360576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Opposers of the link tax and censorship machines argued that it threatened the openness of the internet and made it less free. You can read TNW\u2019s detailed dive into the viewpoints of the articles\u2019 lovers and haters, but the opposition can be shortly summed up like this:<\/p>\n<p>Article 11 (a.k.a. link tax) would force anyone using snippets of journalistic online content to get a license from the publisher first \u2014 essentially outlawing current business models of most aggregators and news apps. This can also possibly threaten the hyperlink and give power to publishers at the cost of public good.<\/p>\n<p>Article 13 (a.k.a. censorship machines) will make platforms responsible for monitoring user behavior to stop copyright&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/eu-votes-for-memes-ban\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs just voted \u2018yes\u2019 on highly controversial parts of the EU\u2019s new Copyright Reform. The controversial articles \u2014 11 and 13 \u2014 effectively establish link tax, censorship machines, and ban memes. There was heavy resistance to the contested articles from internet activists, lobbyists, and members of European Parliament (MEPs), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}