As the EU advances the new Copyright Directive towards becoming law in its 28 member-states, it’s important to realise that the EU’s plan will end up censoring the Internet for everyone, not just Europeans. A quick refresher: Under Article 13 of the new Copyright Directive, anyone who operates a (sufficiently large) platform where people can […]
Welcome to the NeoLib/Con World Order: EU Internet Censorship Will Censor the Whole World’s Internet…
SHOT: Theresa May Says Still Believes Brexit Deal Is ‘Achievable’…
British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday she still believes a Brexit deal is “achievable”, despite talks with the European Union becoming deadlocked on the issue of the Irish border. “We cannot let this disagreement derail the prospects of a good deal, and leave us with the ‘no deal’ outcome that no-one wants,” she told […]
CHASER: EU-UK Brexot Talks Collapse, Disorderly Exit Virtually Certain…
Meet the Whistleblower Who Exposed a Record-Breaking $200B Money Laundering Scheme…
Exactly one week after a Danish law firm published a 70+ page report claiming that roughly 200 billion euros ($235 billion) – nearly all of the money flowing through Danske Bank’s Estonia branch – qualified as suspect, a Danish newspaper has finally revealed the name of the whistleblower who set in motion one of the […]
EU to Create Special Payment Channels with Iran Despite U.S. Sanctions…
European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini says the EU signatories remain committed to the nuclear deal with Iran that the US has quit. The group is working to create special payment channels to do business with Iran. Mogherini read from a statement following a ministerial meeting of the remaining signatories of the Joint Comprehensive […]
EU Continues to Kill the Open Web: Massive Fines for Sites That Don’t Censor Within an Hour…
The EU really seems quite hellbent on absolutely destroying the open internet. Just as the EU Parliament was voting to approve the EU Copyright Directive, requiring that much of the internet be licensed and curated, rather than open for anyone, the EU Commission decided to move forward with an awful idea that it had first […]
EU Approves Controversial Copyright Directive, Including Internet ‘Link Tax’ and ‘Upload Filter’…
The European Parliament has voted in favor of the Copyright Directive, a controversial piece of legislation intended to update online copyright laws for the internet age. The directive was originally rejected by MEPs in July following criticism of two key provisions: Articles 11 and 13, dubbed the “link tax” and “upload filter” by critics. However, […]
Gap Joins U.S. Retail Rally as Quarterly Sales Top $4 Billion…
Despite growing concerns over fallout from the Trump administration’s trade barriers, Gap Inc. on Thursday joined other retailers in reporting profit growth for the most recent three-month earnings period. Revenue at the San Francisco-based apparel chain grew 7.5 percent to $4.09 billion for the quarter that ended on June 30. Net income rose 6.6 percent […]
Brussels, City of Spies…
Forget Vienna and Berlin. There’s another big nest of spies in Europe: Brussels. Suspicions among EU officials that the U.K. spied on them to obtain sensitive Brexit plans made headlines in Britain last week. But for many in the Brussels bubble, spying on both friends and foes is simply business as usual. For some foreign […]
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