Not just Europe: EU Copyright Directive will censor the world's internet

Boundegar · October 10, 2018, 8:23pm

So if you’re Twitter and one of your US users posts something that has to be censored in Europe, you can either censor that just for EU users, or for the whole world.

…or make Twitter unavailable in Europe. And Google and YouTube and Facebook. Europe doesn’t like that answer? Elections have consequences.

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Not just Europe: EU Copyright Directive will censor the world's internet

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