Europe puts on Internet censorship, no more humor

Lawmakers have approved a complete revision of copyrights, giving large technological companies a big blow, which have argued it will be costly and will limit freedom of expression.

The European Parliament voted today to approve controversial changes that make platforms like YouTube responsible for copyright violations made by their users.

Sites like Google News have to pay publishers who receive small fragments of their content from now on.

The proposal had been rejected by technological giants, who warned that they would wish to build expensive content filters and stop connecting to publication. Internet activists argued this leads to censorship.

On the other side of this two - year battle were the various labs, artists and media companies. They said these reforms were needed to update the protection of their copyright rights at the time of the internet and to ensure fair pay for content, Alsatm writes.

This is the recent clash between these giants and European officials, who have taken a much tougher stance than the United States of America in matters of fair competition and tax and protection.

Critics have said that this measure is exaggerated, and that it would even kill the media so popular today.

Google has said the law led “to a legal uncertainty and would damage the creative and digital European economies”.