Re: "link tax", "censorship machines" and EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe

I concur. These are terrible, terrible ideas and should never be enacted. That said, I do not see how they can possibly enforce these on any entity with no EU presence. That makes it doubly bad for the EU, its citizens and their organisations.

The ray of hope is that this has been voted down once already and hopefully will be again. If you have an MEP, now might be a good time to contact them.

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Re^2: "link tax", "censorship machines" and EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe by marto (Cardinal) on Sep 07, 2018 at 11:38 UTC
Yes, there's a 'Take Action' link which helps you do just that: https://saveyourinternet.eu/.	[reply]
Re^2: "link tax", "censorship machines" and EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe by LanX (Saint) on Sep 12, 2018 at 17:46 UTC
> That said, I do not see how they can possibly enforce these on any entity with no EU presence Well obviously by blocking them from EU customers. If this entity doesn't care, it'll be fine. talking about perlmonks, we often had discussions about links to pirated O Reilly books hosted in Ukraine. I suppose we'll be obliged to remove them. And I'd be interested to see the definition of "link", if it needs to be clickable , we might gonna see a discussion to ban real links coming from anno monks. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]