thank you so much Stacco!! On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Stacco Troncoso < [email protected]> wrote:

Here is the post: https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/censorship- machines-are-coming-its-time-for-the-free-software- community-to-discover-its-political-clout/2018/04/10

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On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:

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dear all,

this is NOT getting the attention it deserves, I'm hoping the p2p foundation blog can start diffusing important news on this vital topic,

this should be a central concern to all of us:

see:

as Leina Mestrovic has observed, this is not getting the traction it deserves, these EU plans are nothing less than a thermonuclear option potentially obliterating free sofware,

thanks to @juliet reda for being on the trenches on this:

"The battle on the EU copyright reform proposal continues, centring on the plan to introduce upload filters. In short, online platforms would be required to monitor their users’ uploads and try to prevent copyright infringement through automated filtering. As most communication online consists of uploads onto different platforms, such “censorship machines” have broad consequences, including for free and open source software (FOSS) repositories.

On these platforms, developers from across the world collaborate on software projects that anyone can freely use and adapt. Automated filters would be guaranteed to throw up many false positives. Automatic deletion means uploaders are presumed guilty until proven innocent: Legitimate contributions would be blocked.

The recent outcry about this in the FOSS community is showing some results: Our concerns are getting lawmakers’ attention. Unfortunately, though, most are misunderstanding the issue and drawing the wrong conclusions. Now that we know how powerful the community’s voice is, it is all the more important to keep speaking up!"

https://juliareda.eu/2018/04/free-software-censorship-machines/

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