Now that the Copyright Directive has been voted through, I think it's relevant to share what type of MP's voted for this crap...
Original here: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8sizc8/danish_mep_jens_rohde_in_facebook_post_yesterday/
I posted this on reddit a couple of months ago as I felt (and still feel) like it's rather shocking how someone so ignorant can have any kind of power over something that they clearly know nothing about. Here's what Danish MEP Jens Rohde had to say about the public response to the directive in a Facebook post of his from ~2 months ago:
Always pleasant when the web communists hack and spam my PC in parliament. 50,000 e-mails just yesterday containing largely identical messages - in difference languages though.
This time because I tomorrow vote in favor of artist copyright is valid on the internet as well as everywhere else.
This is not about mass surveillance.
This is not about limiting freedom of speech unless you steal others' content for commercial use.
This is also not about the so-called link tax in article 11. Bloggers can calmly continue working.
This is simply about active commercial platforms which must pay to use people's content for commercial purposes. All passive platforms, marketplaces, wikis, clouds, closed networks are exempt from this proposition that I've helped create and vote for tomorrow.
Creators can themselves ask that their content is monitored, or they can upload it unprotected. That's their choice.
Technology has NOT been considered in the proposal. That will come later.
And let me repeat for the hundredth time: spam as well as hacking is especially counterproductive to me, if you want to promote your cause.
By the way, I will never subscribe to the communist pirate opinion that FREE internet is the same as internet for FREE - no matter how much you attack my PC.
If you missed it: he seems to think that people sending him e-mails are spamming and hacking him. And they are web communists... You can't make this up!
'technology has not been considered. That will come later'
Holy shit how can people be this incompetent and why do they make the rules?
I believe that comment is in reference to the filtering software that would need to be implemented to uphold this legislation.
Next to concerns about using content, this is probably one of the biggest issues with Article 13, since Youtube's version of this type of software was expensive, and even took 11 years to reach the point it's at today.
Many are concerned about how smaller companies that can't afford to implement their own filters will adhere. A centralized service is necessary, but nobody knows yet if that will be something provided by the EU for all, or if it will just be privatized, leaving larger companies the option to still have their own solutions.
Though it's silly that this legislation has gone ahead without much consideration to this aspect, technically what he says is true and accurate.