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8 votes
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EU leaders: We won't follow Trump's Huawei ban
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The EU Copyright Directive: What redditors in Europe need to know
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The European Union versus the Internet
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The EU's Copyright Directive, Article 13
Next week the EU parliament will vote for their new copyright directive. In general it contains some good ideas, but also some extremely bad ones, such as article 13. It will require all uploaded...
Next week the EU parliament will vote for their new copyright directive. In general it contains some good ideas, but also some extremely bad ones, such as article 13. It will require all uploaded content to be scanned, and deleted if it might contain references to other copyrighted material.
The issue here is the word might. Due to the possible fines for companies that accidentally leave up something that contains a copyrighted work, they are incentivized to act more harsh than often necessary. It's safer for them to delete everything that looks like it might infringe copyright than risk the fine.
This could be disastrous for the Internet as we know it. And this is why many movements are speaking out against it. One such example would be the open letter to EU parliament. More information is available on https://saveyourinternet.eu/resources/, and you can find much more about it all over the Internet if you search with your favourite search engine.
What's your opinion on article 13, and have you done anything to make your voice heard?
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Introducing AltStore PAL
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Amazon lobbyists to be barred from European parliament
30 votes -
Amazon seeks to evade EU regulations by claiming it isn't a Very Large Online Platform
29 votes -
European Commission adopts new adequacy decision for safe and trusted EU-US data flows
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Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines
28 votes -
noyb issues more than 500 GDPR complaints in aim to end “cookie banner terror”
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EU passes “Right to repair” Law to make large appliances easier to repair starting from 2021
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Spotify are asking the European Commission to stop Apple's anti-competitive behaviour
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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...
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.
13 votes -
Norwegian court orders website of public domain court decisions shut down with no due process
14 votes -
European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology
26 votes -
EU set to unveil digital wallet fit for post-Covid life
7 votes -
Apple Store's temperature checks may violate EU privacy rules, says German data protection office
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Nearly two years after Europe's GDPR privacy law came into effect, supporters are frustrated by lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources and stalling tactics by the tech companies
10 votes -
Twitter announces that the plan to delete inactive accounts is now on hold, but was primarily aimed at EU accounts due to GDPR
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The CNIL has imposed a penalty of fifty million euros against Google for breaches of the GDPR
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On YouTube and EU Article 13
If you've been following tech news somewhat recently, you've surely heard about Article 13- the one where the EU essentially requires all content hosts to have extremely strict copyright checking...
If you've been following tech news somewhat recently, you've surely heard about Article 13- the one where the EU essentially requires all content hosts to have extremely strict copyright checking tools and have automated takedown of any potentially copyrighted works.
That got put on the backburner for a little bit, but now it's back with a vote being held in early 2019.
YouTube, being one of, if not the largest content hosts in the world, is greatly affected by this motion. In fact, they have a whole website designed to encourage their creators to talk about A13 in their videos. The page very subtly hints at massive service changes that will happen in the EU if this actually ends up passing.
The CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, has also written an op-ed for Financial times (linked to official YT blog since it's free there) about the issues facing YT if A13 passes.
I haven't heard anything from official sources, but I've heard on the rumor mill that YouTube will completely suspend creators in the EU, not allowing them to upload any content, and potentially even removing their existing content from YouTube.
What if this passes? YouTube is one of the biggest sources of free knowledge and entertainment we have today, and it's become engrained into the internet as it is today.
With all this, I simply ask, "what's next?"
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Tomorrow, the EU will vote on the future of the internet (again)
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ICANN't get no respect: Europe throws Whois privacy plan in the trash
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YouTube and Facebook could escape billions in copyright payouts after EU vote. Lawmakers reject overhaul of rules which aimed to make tech giant's pay a bigger share
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‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance efforts are falling short
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EU's General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect today. Rather than comply with it, some US news sites have chosen to simply block EU users.
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Sideloading with iOS 17.4: any use cases?
It’s been a few weeks now since the release of iOS 17.4, which […] provides new options for app marketplaces, web browsers and payments for residents of the European Union. […] Now, don’t get me...
It’s been a few weeks now since the release of iOS 17.4, which
[…] provides new options for app marketplaces, web browsers and payments for residents of the European Union. […]
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am a firm believer in the underlying regulation to it, and have been ever since the possibility of this becoming a reality was in the Brussels air. But so far, I haven’t really been able to come up with a truly practical use case.
Furthermore, I haven’t seen any marketing for an Epic Store, Meta Store, or similar “app marketplaces”, but this may be attributed to the still rather… wobbly legal situation surrounding, notably, still having to direct payments to Apple while not using their store for app distribution. I don’t think there has been any follow-up from Apple (or the EU) that retracts these conditions.
So: Have any fellow EU resident ~tech’ies done anything fun or interesting with this new freedom yet?
To those not affected by this regulation, what would you like to “sideload”, or are perhaps already sideloading on Android?
Do any of you think big companies will move their entire palette onto an alternative store anytime soon, e.g. Facebook and sister products? To be honest, I doubt this will happen, otherwise it would’ve long occurred on the Google Play Store as well.
My ideas were:
- I’ve thought about trying to install Minecraft (the full version, probably using Pojav), or a game of similar caliber, on my phone just for fun and to see how well the iPhone GPU really fares against a “real” game, but didn’t find the time yet for looking into it.
- Also personally, I’d love to see a real “root-capable” shell on iOS, but I don’t think that will ever be a thing irrespective of how much sideloading Apple is forced to allow into their OS.
9 votes -
Denmark was the first to post an ambassador to Silicon Valley. Now, it is leading Europe's diplomats in putting Big Tech on the right side of history.
7 votes -
EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation followed by Facebook
34 votes -
WhatsApp is working on cross-platform messaging
18 votes -
European Union Digital Markets Act aims to allow more competition and let consumers delete preloaded phone apps
27 votes -
Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct
16 votes -
EU companies issues formal complaint against Microsoft OneDrive Windows integration
10 votes -
No cookie for you - Github removes all non-essential cookies
24 votes -
European Commission proposes Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: New rules for all digital services, including social media, online marketplaces, and other platforms operating in the EU
10 votes -
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process
9 votes -
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has banned Google from listening to Google Home recordings in the EU for three months
9 votes -
The language Wikipedias in German, Czech, Danish, and Slovak are "blacked out" for twenty-four hours to protest the EU Copyright Directive
14 votes -
Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for unfair advertising rules
14 votes -
EU Copyright reform negotiations (Article 11 and Article 13) hit a brick wall in Council
10 votes -
Film Theory: All your memes are dead
3 votes -
Today, Europe lost the internet. Now, we fight back
10 votes -
Remove the search engine setting. Hard-code the search engine to Google
8 votes -
Fall asleep in seconds by listening to a soothing voice read the EU’s new GDPR legislation
11 votes -
This is how internet regulation can go really wrong
4 votes -
Polish court orders Google to stop favouring its own price-comparison service in search results
16 votes -
Cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS.
25 votes -
EU fines Apple €1.8bn over App Store restrictions on music streaming
26 votes -
European Union reaches a deal on the world’s first comprehensive AI rules
12 votes