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Internet Giants Can’t Lose?

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  • Writing in The Guardian, Carlos Fernandes, a World Economic Forum young global leader, argues that the proposed EU copyright law, intended to break tech juggernauts’ grip on European media, will have precisely the opposite effect.

 

  • By penalizing organizations for the copyright abuses of their users, the law will incentivize digital media platforms like Google and Facebook to use automated cost-saving measures that will overdelete out of caution.

 

  • Our new robot overlords will invariably restrict legitimate content to avoid Brussels’ wrath.

 

  • The net effect will be to suppress debate and democracy without meaningfully limiting tech sector dominance of the Internet. 

 

  • Let’s promote competition instead, forever. 

 

 

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