HRMI together with partners is joining the campaign “Say No to Online Censorship in Europe!” urging\u00a0\u00a0European parliamentarians\u00a0to vote against this proposal that would restrict freedom of expression online.\u00a0If the new EU copyright proposal is passed, YouTube, Facebook and other file-sharing platforms would be forced to implement new algorithms to check whether the content you upload has any copyrighted elements. Bots would judge what you can share \u2013 and what can be shared with you. They would filter out and ban anything that might cause a problem. Any problem.<\/p>\n
Disproportionate content filtering<\/strong><\/p>\n Copyright protection is important for everyone. But with this proposal, the EU has developed the wrong tool for the job. They want online companies like YouTube and Facebook to check everything that ordinary people put on the internet and filter out any upload that contains copyrighted material. For example, that video of your friends having at a music festival that you wanted to post to Facebook? It could be banned because there\u2019s copyrighted music in the background. That hilarious meme you wanted to tweet? Banned because it uses an image from a film.<\/p>\n In the face of the threat of censorship on the Internet and limitation of freedom of expression, the initiators of the campaign call on all to address MEPs and write a letter<\/a> calling on them to vote against this initiative.<\/p>\n