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The EU Parliament voted by a margin of 2:1 today to adopt Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive, a stringent copyright restriction that has the potential to ban memes. MEPs were made to vote again after having voted to reject it in July. Sound familiar?

Article 13 requires web companies to automatically filter out any copyrighted content, from songs to videos to even pictures. Say goodbye to your favourite gifs, movie stills, or other potentially copyrighted material on any social network.

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After the first time a Swedish election has been monitored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), observers have expressed “shock” at the nation’s “undemocratic” system.

Danish delegate Michael Aastrup Jensen, who has previously monitored elections in Russia and Eastern Europe, told Berlinske: “In all the many election observations I’ve been on, I have not seen anything that comes close to how undemocratic the Swedish voting system is.”

The foreign policy spokesman for Denmark’s liberal governing party Venstre, Jensen said the major issue with the Swedish election system is the lack of privacy for citizens casting their ballot.

Separate parties have separate ballot papers in Sweden, the choosing of which takes place in public, as voters must select their preferred ballot papers before placing them into a ballot box.

“It is just so far beneath anything remotely resembling European election standards, or anything we would allow even in Eastern Europe,” he said.

Jensen told the Danish newspaper how, outside of official monitoring duties, he visited a number of polling places in Malmö to see, ‘with his own eyes’, voting take place, and found “party soldiers” standing in front of the stations, where they were trying to hand voters ballot papers for their respective parties.

As chairman of Denmark’s delegation to the Council of Europe, the organisation responsible for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Jensen hopes to bring attention to problems with the Swedish election system.

“I will highlight the issue with the Council of Europe so that we can hopefully send the strongest possible signals to Sweden that they should introduce the sort of rules seen in Denmark and in virtually every other country in the world,” he said.

Speaking on the outcome of the Swedish election, which saw the worst result in 100 years for the ruling Social Democrats, the Danish foreign minister also hit out at the refusal of mainstream parties to cooperate in any way with the populist Sweden Democrats, which this year secured its largest ever share of the vote.

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The controversy mainly surrounds two sections of the law — Articles 11 and 13.

Article 11 would grant press publications copyright over the sharing of their content online, meaning they would be able to charge services like Google News for aggregating their stories. Critics have dubbed this as an effective "link tax," but proponents say hyperlinks will be exempt.

Meanwhile, Article 13 calls for "effective content recognition" technology to filter out copyright-protected content. Detractors hold that this part of the law could threaten social media users' ability to share anything from internet memes to snippets of music and film.

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thats a nice way to put public pressure on people to not vote for the sweden democrats.....

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/dalai-lama-says-europe-belongs-to-europeans

"I think Europe belongs to the Europeans," he said, adding they should make clear to refugees that "they ultimately should rebuild their own country".

we should replace the pope with this guy
is the dalai lama a nazi now?

Quote (ampoo @ 13 Sep 2018 11:55)

thats a nice way to put public pressure on people to not vote for the sweden democrats.....

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/dalai-lama-says-europe-belongs-to-europeans

"I think Europe belongs to the Europeans," he said, adding they should make clear to refugees that "they ultimately should rebuild their own country".

we should replace the pope with this guy
is the dalai lama a nazi now?

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Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 13 2018 03:19pm)

definitely. a textbook right-wing white supremacist cultural appropriating inhumane nazi scumbag. burn him at the stake for his heresy against the religion of multiculturalism!

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'Catastrophic': EU passes controversial copyright law that could hit the likes of Google and Facebook

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/eu-lawmakers-pass-controversial-digital-copyright-law.html





Scary shyt.

Quote (Knoppie @ 14 Sep 2018 03:00)

That's the sentiment of a democracy right? Our country belongs to us citizens. It only becomes interesting when you take the next step in how you want to form it. And what is sometimes defined as "us".

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POLICE in southern France are holding a man on suspicion of attempted murder after he steered his car towards crowd, injuring two people.

Several witnesses told AFP that the man shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) during the incident a cry which has been uttered by jihadists during previous attacks.

The 32-year-old suspect, believed to be a local, sped towards a crowd of about 50 outside the “L’Instant T” bar on Friday at around 1am local time (9am AEST), witnesses at the scene told AFP.

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thats the key question, isnt it? not "who belongs to 'us'", but "who do we, the people of europe, want to be a part of 'us'".

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https://www.rt.com/news/438430-car-hits-pedestrians-france/
https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/two-injured-after-driver-targets-crowd-in-southern-france/news-story/64e330d3b59b5c9835860c121e78971a

another terrorist attack in frogland