There's is no such thing as freedom of speech these days.

Thank you for getting the word out about this. So many countries are sensoring or attempting to ratchet down the internet. Freedom is what we all need.

This is horrible.  It is sad to see that censorship is so alive and well in the world today.  Although in the US we are dealing with our own issues of Net Neutrality and the governments and corporations trying to stifle that.  Thanks for bringing light to this topic!

Narrow minded meddling by control freaks with the free flow of thoughts in the collective mind of the human species, this seems to boil down to.

Some folks are seriously in need of enlightenment I think!

It´s a total nonesense! I will reesteem this post and share it on twitter and facebook. One more battle ahead. Let´s try to bring more people to the battlefield.

Europe tends to come up with these odd schemes. Like the one they tried that only a garage can open the bonnet, (hood) on a car. So an owner cannot check their own oil or water levels. That disapeared.
Europe also wanted to make it compulsory that only a manufacturers parts can be used on a car. It was pointed out that each manufacturer also markets their parts for other makes of cars. That one also disapeared.
Europe tends to like large businesses and dislikes small ones as they are harder to control. So small creaters would find it difficult under this new law and close down.
Maybe this one will also go away, Eventually Europe will be so restrictive on the internet that most of the world will cut them off. 
Many companies have decided to cut off their programs from Europe as the cost of meeting the new privacy regulations is just too high.
I personally have closed all of my email lists, and closed several of my web sites as it is just too much trouble to meet all the European regulations.

It is ridiculous because there is no way you can setup a system that will do this job 100% accurate. Which means, you have to have people in place to manually take care of things, or at least of some of these things. Can you see someone check all facebook messages before they are really published?

What is going to happen when I post something that by coincidence is also the headline of a news item on a newspaper website.

This is just as unworkable as the law to charge people a taxrate related to the country they live in.
And just as unworkable as the recently applied law to set up a whole department within your firm just to clarify and manage customer data.

The thing that it does show to me is,  not a European Union that is taking care of anyone. It is a European Union that has no clue to what the internet is. They are still trying to manage it like you would a paper office. 

What worries me most is that no one seems to be able to stop them. No ones is telling them "Nice plan, but we are not in the 1900 anymore".

They desperately need to clean up their own act before they bother us with new plans/laws again.

I signed this petition a while ago. It's really important. It's another attempt to shore up centralisation of the Net, to curb the power of smaller players and to stop the web being a level playing field.

Taxation is a theft.

I resteemed.
# EVERYONE MUST RESTEEM THIS!

I also have found another way to save the Internet:
[saveyourinternet.eu](saveyourinternet.eu)

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I see dark agenda to this. Deficiency in accuracy, scam are demerit to the set up of this on system. In my country we are facing our own issues corruption!