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Can you share a link to where you’ve learned of the process from March 30th?

News on the second piece of Chat Control legislation which would introduce “mandatory scanning” as a consequence.

The new regulation will begin it’s process on March 30th, NOT A VOTE, just the start of the legal process and an actual vote won’t be for awhile.

There’s word of protests on Feb 26th but I’ve yet to find a complete list of them all so please keep an eye out and share it here!

Please take some time to read this, it’s important!

@Background Pony #18FC
I’m aware of the Earn It Act.

I’ve been spreading word of it on Twitter, Reddit, and Deviantart.

Forgot to share it here, thanks for the reminder!

Well the DSA vote happened and this is one of the results:

“Internet corporations use unreliable #uploadfilters against supposedly illegal content - with much collateral damage. The majority won‘t even limit automated censorship to content that is manifestly illegal irrespective of its context.
#rejected“

That’s right, you can thank the EPP especially for that.

Really hope this can be challenged by the courts.

Full thread on the subject here:

News on the DSA negotiations:

The EPP really sucks, they really really fucking suck.

Update from Communia!

“On 20 December Estonia became the 10th EU member state to fully implement the #copyright DSM directive into national law. The Estonian implementation gets a number of things right and is among the best implementations we’ve seen so far…”

Also worth sharing:

Final vote on the Parliament’s position on the Digital Services Act (vote on the IMCO report by all Members of Parliament in the plenary session): 17 – 22 January 2022

So keep an eye out for that!

Tomorrow the IMCO committee will vote on the #DigitalServicesAct.

So ya know, keep an eye on how that goes.

@belmontzar
So what you’re saying is that this law they’re proposing which could attack the public domain would be near impossible to enact without even taking into account how it would violate current laws protecting the public domain yes?

Because dude, you need to be more concise with how you word stuff.

@CaptainXtra
Public domain, the effect of the world wide web, and the rights within are really hard to take care of legally. Its also hard to bring any of it to court as well due to how strange internet law is.
There is also the fact that Legal Practice is very flexible depending on who is being charged for what. If its the right person on the big chair none of the evidence in the world will matter at all.
You also have to contend with the legal realm of other related countries as well.

One such loophole some Government run websites utilize is the simple act of running the page as a Non profit and functioning off donations to the website, rather than what is on the website.

@CaptainXtra
Exactly, and when they do, serves them right.

@belmontzar
Aren’t they technically attacking the Public Domain?

Which would be illegal?

@Background Pony #4FDF
While I dont think its publicly available, all books that contain ISBN numbers are digitally and mostly physically stored for posterity, and can be accessed on some websites.
It just occured to me that this may not be what all nations do.
I am in the USA, I know my country has these sites, I think some of them even have computer and videogames you can play online.

@belmontzar
I agree.

@CaptainXtra
I belive they are the great gatherings of public information and literature that are owned and run by the Government itself.
Websites that catalog and contain vast amounts of data, books, and media which are owned by the Government.
You know how some places like here collect art work, and how places like FIMFiction gather MLP fan fics?
There are online libraries of books and information that are funded and helped by the government,to ensure that things like Dictionaries, thesaurus, Classical, and informational texts are always available for people to use.

Can someone explain what defines “Digital Libraries” here?

ALL I know is that it sounds like something very messy that could be heavily abused. HERE is a Crazy example that came to mind.
Country A has a bad thing happen in (Town) but does not report on it because they are at fault and dont want bad press because “elections!”
Country B reports about it because its important.
People in Country A learn about what happened thanks to Country B and start talking about it.
country A leader gets mad and tells Country B to get rid of its evidence.
Country B is forced to remove all of its evidence because Country A said so because… Commmittee rules say so.

@belmontzar
I’m still piecing together how all this EU legislation could affect the global net…

Anyway…

It’s been awhile since I’ve commented on here.

There’s this from COMMUNIA:

“Small #Article17 implementation update fromFlag of France: The
@MinistereCC
has published a new implementation decree that allows the Minister of Culture to specify thresholds for when OCSSPS are considered to provide access to “large amounts of copyrighted works”.

They also included a link:
Non-French Speakers need a translation tool.

So let me make sure I understand this because of how it sounds.
If someone from this “Legal Affairs Committee.” Doesn’t like something that was legally published in another country, they have the power to Order its removal?
Does this only apply to other Countries that are part of the “LAC” or does this mean someone can randomly declare they Dislike something and no matter where its from it has to be removed?

Ok Im tired and missed part of what id read..
So it involves just the Members States related to the LAC, and does not mean
“RAWR I dont like this American thing.. Remove it America!”

Meanwhile in the European Union, which most of you tend to forget exists:
 
The Legal Affairs Committee wants to allow online platforms to use error-prone re-upload filters. Algorithms cannot reliably identify illegal content and frequently suppress entirely legal content.
 
This is how MEPs voted:
 

 
Freedom of speech on the internet: The Legal Affairs Committee would allow any member state to order the removal of content that has been legally published in another member state. That means #Orban could have content deleted in your country.  
Voting results:
 

 
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Quick reminder on Orban:
 

 

 
 
Unauthorised live streams need to be taken down within 30 minutes. This is what the Legal Affairs Committee called for today in its opinion on the #DigitalServicesAct #DSA. This is how MEPs voted:
 

 
All this info comes from Patrick Breyer
 
Even though Brexit was a stupid mistake and the majority of its supports didn’t have a fucking clue how the UK would survive once it happened, the mindset that the EU is going backwards wasn’t totally wrong.
 
 

 
Oh yeah, I won’t miss that hag Merkel.

@CaptainXtra  
Here’s a petition.

Just a refresher on the topic of Chat Control:
 
Chatcontrol 2.0 will follow soon

This here is the AG’s full statement on the matter of Art 13/17 in English:
 
Case C‑401/19
 
Republic of Poland
 
v
 
European Parliament,
 
Council of the European Union

@CaptainXtra  
Ahh.
 
Well, it at least means some modifications at least, right?