<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 14px"><div>As a storyteller,I know it might sound like I'm crying "Wolf!", but as a librarian the tiny aggravation in our Inboxes before on the EU policies were just a warm-up to a truly Internet breaking policy that affects the entire Internet.</div>
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<p>Today I received this (my own comments follow), also I put in <strong>bold</strong> type the part affecting <span style="text-decoration: underline;">everybody</span>:</p>
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*This is terrible:* The EU Parliament just caved in to giant corporations and passed a
massive overhaul of copyright law that threatens to ruin the Internet as we know it.
The Parliament approved the requirements for taxes on hyperlinks and censorship upload
filters for any website that publishes content.
<strong>1 If these policies become law, websites like Reddit and Wikipedia could be wiped out
entirely. And </strong><strong>it would pave the way for similar policies here at home. But the good
news is that the EU Council </strong><strong>gets its say, and we're going to make sure these devastating
policies are rejected. </strong>
<a href="https://openmedia.org/en/sad-day-internet-eu-parliament-approves-link-tax-and-censorship-machines" rel="noopener" target="_blank">OpenMedia</a> is pressuring EU member states to stand up to corporate interests and vote
down the Link Tax and Censorship Machines for good. Will you donate to help our efforts?
<a href="https://act.openmedia.org/stl-vote-sbs?src=162909" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://act.openmedia.org/stl-vote-sbs?src=162909</a> ] <strong>
The Link Tax would affect not just Europe, but the entire Internet ecosystem.
Requiring websites to use automated content-filtering technology would cost
millions of dollars and thousands of manpower hours, likely decimating small online
businesses and startups.
2 This legislation stems from pressure from gigantic publishers who would rather
destroy the free and open Internet than admit their business models are obsolete. They
want Google and other data aggregators to pay up when they link to original sources-but
that means that we'd also have to pay, changing the way we share information with each
other.
3 And the legislation also calls for content sites to have YouTube-style upload filters.
But most sites don't have the manpower or financial resources of YouTube, which paid tens
of millions of dollars to put its filter in place. These Censorship Machine requirements
will put smaller sites out of business for good. We've seen the effect that Europe's new
privacy requirements have had on websites we use here at home-dozens of new terms of
service agreements have come through our email inboxes. That's why it's essential that
the entire world become involved in the fight against the EU's new copyright legislation.</strong>
And as a global organization with campaigners around the world, OpenMedia is uniquely
suited to take up the fight.
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When this came up earlier I posted on storytelling sites what I could find about the
EU Council. Canadian storyteller who is also a librarian, Elinor Benjamin, added "I
managed to harvest all the email addresses from the site so I could send one message to
all of them - freely adapted from Lois' point. Here they are if anyone wants to do the same. . .</pre>
<p>francis.zammitdimech@europarl.europa.eu<br />
emil.radev@europarl.europa.eu<br />
pavel.svoboda@europarl.europa.eu<br />
sylvia-yvonne.kaufmann@europarl.europa.eu<br />
enrico.gasbarra@europarl.europa.eu<br />
mady.delvaux-stehres@europarl.europa.eu<br />
tadeusz.zwiefka@europarl.europa.eu<br />
antonio.marinhoepinto@europarl.europa.eu<br />
jozsef.szajer@europarl.europa.eu"</p>
<p>Please consider how you, too, might respond before the EU Council takes steps affecting <span style="text-decoration: underline;">all</span> of us whether we have a website or not, since we all use the internet.</p>
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LoiS(hocked & you should be, too)
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<div><span id="tmpPasteIE1268304143900"><span id="tmpPasteIE1268304143900">Lois Sprengnether Keel<br />
<a href="http://http://www.LoiS-sez.com" target="_blank">http://www.LoiS-sez.com </a></span></span></div>
<div>and blog at <a href="http://www.StorytellingResearchLois.com">http://www.StorytellingResearchLois.com</a><br />
<span><span>Storyteller in MI Arts & Humanities Directory<br />
and in Historical Society of Michigan Directory<br />
<a href="http://hsmichigan.org/resources/storytellers-speakers-performers/storyteller-lois-sprengnether-keel/">http://hsmichigan.org/resources/storytellers-speakers-performers/storyteller-lois-sprengnether-keel/</a><br />
State Liaison for National Storytelling Network<br />
Webmaster for <a href="http://michiganstorytelling.org/" target="_blank">http://michiganstorytelling.org/</a></span></span></div>
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