if you were worried about the EU Copyright Directive, you should be absolutely terrified about the EU Terrorist Content Regulation, which has continued to march forward with very little attention compared to the Copyright Directive

Terrorist Content Regulation, starting with the requirement that any site (even a one-person blog somewhere outside of the EU) be required to take down content within an hour of notification by an ill-defined “competent authority,” but also covering other aspects, such as requiring mandatory content filters.

left in the 1 hour content removal requirement. And the largest group in the EU Parliament, the EPP, has already put forth amendments to bring back all the other bad stuff in the proposal.

As MEP Julia Reda notes, the EU Parliament will now vote on the Terrorist Content Regulation on Wednesday

https://juliareda.eu/2019/04/reject-terror-filters/

EU countries give final approval to copyright reform aimed at Google and Facebook
https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/15/eu-countries-give-final-approval-to-copyright-reform-aimed-at-google-and-facebook/

The European Union has officially approved a controversial and sweeping reform of its copyright rules to protect content creators but that includes provisions critics and tech giants have argued will significantly reduce free speech online.

The rules were passed by the European Parliament last month, but still needed the final approval of member governments to go into effect.

Flagged 15x in 1 hour & someone stole my song… Being a YouTuber and how it’s impossible to work with the current copyright policy.
On how I got duped twice and discussing a possible solution.

Though Facebook’s lobbying associations spent the whole debate over the EU Copyright Directive arguing (correctly) that algorithmic filters to catch copyright infringement would end up blocking mountains of legitimate speech (while still letting through mountains of infringement), Facebook secretly told the EU Commission that it used filters all the time, had utmost confidence in them, and couldn’t see any problems with their use.