Has the EU just killed the internet as we know it?

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indepen...html%3famp

https://order-order.com/2019/03/26/eu-vo...-internet/

https://twitter.com/Senficon?ref_src=tws...r%5Eauthor

In short:

The two clauses causing the most controversy are known as Article 11 and Article 13.

Article 11 states that search engines and news aggregate platforms should pay to use links from news websites.

Article 13 holds larger technology companies responsible for material posted without a copyright licence.

It means they would need to apply filters to content before it is uploaded.

And the last part is where the controversy lies. Critics fear this will lead to censorship of images or material that have the likeness of people or copyrighted imagery which could see hosts of such material subjected to being sued. This may include further strikes against YouTube content creators or small news sites.

What do you think?

Further explanations via https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47239600 among many others.

The fact that a lot of larger news sites and copyright lawyers for larger media companies (under article 11 there is the chance that smaller companies will have to pay for citations of larger sites, pricing out independent news) are very happy often, to me, sounds alarm bells...