Oi, Guvna! You Got A Loicence For That Post?!

The smugness intensifies… or does it?

I don’t know if you’ve heard the news lately, but the European Union has been thinking about passing multiple bills that would effectively destroy the Internet as we know it. If implemented, Articles 11 and 13 would force aggregators and other entities to pay a “link tax” and require companies to filter any copyrighted content that is uploaded to their sites. This legislation is supposedly going to create a chilling effect on free expression, as it would...