#freespeech

As I've said before, it's hard not to read this mass surveillance/censorship bullshit as our deeply reactionary governments getting the faintest whiff that an unchecked internet severely interferes with their ability to propagandize and decided the internet had to die.

The UK and US in particular are absolutely speed-running this bullshit (with the EU, Australia, and South America not too far behind).

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Internet #SocialMedia #AgeVerification #ClientSideScanning #UK #UnitedKingdom

RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/users/openrightsgroup/statuses/116205495518019401

Emmerich Newspapers wants the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to scrap the Server Test, something that's been legal precedent for almost two decades.

Emmerich Newspapers also argues that altering a URL, via something like a link shortener, should constitute copyright infringement under the DMCA ("Prohibition on changing or deleting copyright management information").

In short, they want to make link embedding and link shortening essentially illegal (or least very legally gray). Copyright maximalists are batshit insane.

#FreeSpeech #Censorship #Embedding #Links #Internet #Copyright #CopyrightNonsense

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/eff/statuses/116196024145324586