European Commission wants to break the web, give publishers the right to charge for inbound links

renke · September 17, 2016, 2:26pm

and while the commission members are selected by the governments of the EU states the EP has to approve them - so no real difference to the US system

doctorow · September 20, 2016, 4:32pm

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