So, Bad News · 9:31pm Sep 12th, 2018
In case you missed it, it looks like the infamous internet directives proposed to the European Union has passed its initial vote. What this means, in effect, is that not only will there be a “link tax” forcing sites to pay for licenses to link to news articles (a law already implemented to disastrous results in Germany), but also a mandate that internet hosts put up content filters to automatically check for copyright violations, similar to the infamous ContentID algorithm already in place on