<story><title>EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w1nst0nsm1th</author><text>I think we’re still a long way before we reach the excess of Russia regarding free speech et subordination of democratic values.</text></item><item><author>smsm42</author><text>Funny how exactly EU follows the path Russia has recently taken. After Russia passed the law that banned online material promoting terrorist content, suicide, drug information and harm to children, and so on, there was an avalanche of false takedown requests and misidentifications, including attempting to block Wikipedia, ban Bhagavad Gita commentary (yes, really) and many more anecdotes that sound funny unless you live there. Now Russia has progressed to banning &amp;quot;insulting&amp;quot; the government publicly, i.e. direct ban on political dissent. I wonder how long it would be until EU does the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oarsinsync</author><text>Spain banned speech critical of the government several years ago, and several people have been jailed already. At least one person has been jailed over a tweet.&lt;p&gt;Europe isn’t one big whole, parts of it are already obviously worse than others.</text></comment>
<story><title>EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w1nst0nsm1th</author><text>I think we’re still a long way before we reach the excess of Russia regarding free speech et subordination of democratic values.</text></item><item><author>smsm42</author><text>Funny how exactly EU follows the path Russia has recently taken. After Russia passed the law that banned online material promoting terrorist content, suicide, drug information and harm to children, and so on, there was an avalanche of false takedown requests and misidentifications, including attempting to block Wikipedia, ban Bhagavad Gita commentary (yes, really) and many more anecdotes that sound funny unless you live there. Now Russia has progressed to banning &amp;quot;insulting&amp;quot; the government publicly, i.e. direct ban on political dissent. I wonder how long it would be until EU does the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>How long? It&amp;#x27;s always quicker than you think once you&amp;#x27;re sliding down the slope.</text></comment>