Soldato
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If you've been lurking around the internet recently, you may have seen a lot of drama about this "Article 13" in the EU going around. Since most of the other sites are political action groups that want your money, and many others do a garbage job of explaining this, I'll try to explain this as briefly and simply as possible.
What is it?
This whole deal is Article 13 of Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market. Essentially, it proposes to the governments of the EU that they should require sites to host bots that check all work uploaded against a database of copyrighted materials.
This would be a requirement for all sites accessible within these countries, like GDPR. Unlike GDPR, this is not in the best interest of users, but rather large corporations with vast amounts of copyright material.
https://dontwreckthe.net < I prefer this version
https://saveyourinternet.eu
https://www.youtube.com/saveyourinternet/
Kinda surprising no one is talking about this here, but it needs to be made known, Article 13 is bad, different parts of it is written in such a bad way. GDPR has already shown that many websites will just block the EU from visiting them, especially news sites. Each day, I click a link somewhere in Reddit to find that the website is blocked.
Article 13 if it goes ahead in it's full without the changes, will be worst. It could literally split the Internet in half, with EU on one side and everyone else on the other side. YouTube and Reddit are prime targets that could be broken in half and that's if YouTube doesn't block everyone from the EU that their latest messages on Twitter making it suggest they might.
https://twitter.com/YTCreators/status/1061966081005379584
YouTube might block the EU from uploading videos and people outside of YouTube will lose EU viewers and this also affects Twitch. Pretty much everything, Gaming in theory could be affected too.