Bits of Freedom – P2P Foundation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 08 Mar 2017 08:53:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 62076519 Stop #CensorshipMachine: EU copyright threatens our freedoms https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/stop-censorshipmachine-eu-copyright-threatens-our-freedoms/2017/03/08 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/stop-censorshipmachine-eu-copyright-threatens-our-freedoms/2017/03/08#respond Wed, 08 Mar 2017 08:55:00 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=64229 Europe wants Internet companies to filter all of your uploads. (It is a censorship machine.) An upload filter can’t recognize your legal use of copyrighted content. (Like parody, citations and – oh, noes! – memes.) And you will have no meaningful protection from unfair deletion. (So, the proposed safeguards will not save you.) This needs... Continue reading →

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]]> Europe wants Internet companies to filter all of your uploads. (It is a censorship machine.)
An upload filter can’t recognize your legal use of copyrighted content. (Like parody, citations and – oh, noes! – memes.)
And you will have no meaningful protection from unfair deletion. (So, the proposed safeguards will not save you.)
This needs to change: we need to save the meme! (Article 13 of the proposed Copyright Directive must be deleted.)
And you can be of a tremendous help!
Call a member of the European Parliament now – for free.

Visit SaveTheMeme.net for more!

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