It's difficult to understate how much of a threat Article 13 poses to the internet as we know it. This law comes in the guise of an overreaching copyright regulation but the preemptive filters it will force platforms to use can just as easily be weaponized to censor all politically inconvenient speech. Given the draconian 'hate speech' and 'fake news' being passed in individual European countries, this is all but inevitable. Google, Facebook, Twitter et.al. serve the most oppressive common denominator - living in the US will not save you. Farewell internet - it was fun while it lasted. (* = bylined)
March 25: Article 13 destroys the internet; UK can't leave EU or Yemen without a black eye; even Saudis think Trump's cucked
EU prepares to kill internet as we know it with Article 13 vote
*Article 13 weaponizes copyright to impose preemptive censorship
UK MPs wrest control of Brexit from Theresa Maybe
UK opposition demands out of Yemen after special forces injured fighting for Saudis
Even Saudi Arabia won't back Trump's Golan Heights sellout
March 26: Middle East Peace sacrificed to Greater Israel; journalistic credibility sacrificed to ratings; Green New Deal sacrificed to green new $$
*Trump & Kushner's Middle East Peace plan has no room for Palestine
Israel pounds Gaza 2 nights in pre-election response to 2 rockets landing harmlessly
Syria demands UN Security Council meeting after Golan Heights declaration
BBC head laments 'mainstream media' as smear-Lionel says look in the mirror
Green New Deal flops after forced Senate vote
March 27: Guaido swears revolution around the corner; Maddow swears Russians around the corner; Smollett swears lynch mobs around the corner; Monsanto just swears
Guaido calls for 'tactical action' ahead of inevitable palace-storming 2002 reenactment
Maddow slips from 1st to 6th place as MSNBC ratings plummet post-Mueller
FBI reviewing dismissal of Smollett hate hoax charges
Jury rules Bayer must pay in second Roundup cancer case
Truck plows into crowd investigating another accident on Guatemala highway
March 28: Facebook covers up racism with white nationalism ban; Mexico shrugs off migrant blame; Smollett lawyer keeps straight face; Pakistan says no terror here
*Facebook bans 'white nationalism' to cover up its own targeted-ad racism
AMLO to Trump: don't blame Mexico for your Central American migrant problem
Smollett lawyer says Nigerian brothers wore whiteface to attack Jussie Smollett
Pakistan reports no terror camps at sites submitted by India
Georgia mayoral campaign meeting bars white media
March 29: MSNBC becomes MSDNC; Bolton's unrequited love; Tesla takes your secrets to the grave; Tinder tanks millennial sex rates
MSNBC political editor bullies journalist on behalf of DNC
Venezuelan defense minister wants Bolton to stop sending love notes
Tesla hoards all your data & coughs it up to junkyard or future owner
Tinder offers 'height-verification' as consolation prize for destroying your sex life