Of Marcello Foa
They've been trying in every way for a long time, in the United States and, above all, in Europa. Those who follow this blog know how I think: since the establishment lost control of the Internet and especially of social media, conveying non-mainstream ideas and encouraging the affirmation of alternative movements, those who are contemptuously defined as “populists”, any pretext is good to encourage measures to limit freedom of thought. They tried using the battering ram of "Fake news" and the attempt is still ongoing, in these hours they are using another lock pick, he copyright.
As he reported, in perfect solitude, Claudio Messora up Byo Blu the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, on the proposal of the inevitable German commissioner Oettinger, gave the first green light to the Copyright Act, that in fact, if it is also approved in the Chamber, will allow the introduction of censorship measures.

The article 11, establishes the so-called “link tax”. We're not talking, to avoid misunderstandings about films or songs or entire books, but we are talking about the text that, quoted verbatim refers, “even to the smallest fragments of articles containing news”, that they “must have a license”. You know that little preview text that appears next to or below a link, in the absence of which no one in their right mind would dream of clicking? Ecco, that should also be properly licensed!

Messora explains, which continues like this:

According to the article 13 “online platforms are responsible for copyright violations of their users” and “must in any case implement preventive filters on uploads”. It means that the algorithms will reject a priori any content that "could" infringe copyright, before it even appears online. But algorithms are not immune to false positives and certainly cannot distinguish between eligible uses, like parodies, i meme, the right to criticize… There is no concession to the very concept of “Fair Use”. Ecco, for example, it will be impossible to publish a photo of anyone with a writing underneath, exactly memes, unless you took that photo yourself, and even then you will still be judged "guilty" unless you prove yourself "innocent" and wage long battles to get your content back online.

 
The message is clear: if this law passes, the dissemination of political content can only take place without the support of images, because it is clear that the individual citizen will never be able to obtain photos of a prime minister or of the war in Syria. And even quoting excerpts from articles could lead to the suppression of your Facebook page or Twitter account. In short, if this law were to come into force, Blogs and political pages on social media with "unauthorized" photos could be automatically deleted, depriving the Internet of a now indispensable support tool. What appeal might having text-only pages have?? Do you really want the Internet to be reduced to a huge bulletin board of kitten photos (only yours, because others would violate copyright)?
Claudio Messora has launched a petition against this measure, which will be voted on in Brussels on 4 July. The aim is to provoke an uprising on the Internet and because the big newspapers are , Obviously, ignoring the news, the only possibility is to trigger word of mouth that induces tens of thousands of citizens to sign this petition.
I signed. And you? Only a few days left, don't waste time!

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Source: http://blog.ilgiornale.it/foa/2018/06/24/lultima-della-ue-il-web-senza-immagini-e-senza-idee-si-chiama-censura-io-non-ci-sto-e-tu/?repeat=w3tc