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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: Read More