“Dark Day for Internet Freedom”: EU to Create Online Censorship Machine

(CD) — Despite widespread grassroots opposition, the European Parliament Tuesday approved sweeping copyright rules that critics warn will spawn an internet “censorship machine.” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden decried the vote, tweeting, in German, “Never forget what they did here.” In a blog post, Danny O’Brien—international director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)—called passage of the copyright rules “a stunning rejection of […]