- 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.