{"id":16939,"date":"2017-09-06T12:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16939"},"modified":"2017-09-06T12:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:49:34","slug":"eu-presidency-calls-for-massive-internet-filtering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16939","title":{"rendered":"EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Council of the European Union <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statewatch.org\/news\/2017\/aug\/eu-council-copyright-directive-estonian-compromises-11783-17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document leaked by Statewatch on 30 August<\/a> reveals that during the summer months, that Estonia (current EU Presidency) has been pushing the other Member States to strengthen indiscriminate internet surveillance, and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2017\/04\/chinese-snooping-foreshadows-future-copyright-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow in the footsteps of China regarding online censorship<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/edri.org\/leaked-document-eu-presidency-calls-for-massive-internet-filtering\/\">Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering &#8211; EDRi<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the leaked document, the text suggests two options for each of the two most controversial proposals: the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/edri.org\/copyfail-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201clink tax\u201d or ancillary copyright<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/copybuzz.com\/copyright\/5-fundamental-flaws-censorship-filter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upload filter<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Council of the European Union document leaked by Statewatch on 30 August reveals that during the summer months, that Estonia (current EU Presidency) has been pushing the other Member States to strengthen indiscriminate internet surveillance, and to follow in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1181,277,439,598],"class_list":["post-16939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-copyright","tag-european"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16940,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions\/16940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}