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“The end of the internet as we know it.”

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  • Matthew Lesh, writing a barnstormer for CapX, argues that the European Parliament’s new Copyright Directive will permanently split the Internet in two.

 

  • Europe will enjoy a severely restrictive, heavily-censored version of digital reality — crippling free expression and suppressing the democratic values it aims to promote.

 

  • Everyone fortunate enough not to live in Europe or an autocracy will, more or less, create and consume freely.

 

  • As even news website comment sections are in the crosshairs, the directive opens the door to unforeseen and potentially disastrous restrictions on press freedom.

 

 

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