European Parliament voted to reject controversial copyright law proposal

The European Parliament voted to reject the disputed copyright law proposal. This copyright law proposal is considered dangerous to the openness of the Internet. It requires users to generate content for helpful websites to take steps to prevent the publication of copyrighted material, which means that the site will review its content before the user posts, which will threaten online freedom and impose new restrictions on access.

Image: By European Union [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

So experts and organisations launched a campaign to save the Internet, and Wikipedia‘s multiple European languages directed all pages to a protest statement page.

Great success: Your protests have worked! The European Parliament has sent the copyright law back to the drawing board. All MEPs will get to vote on #uploadfilters and the #linktax September 10–13. Now let's keep up the pressure to make sure we #SaveYourInternet! pic.twitter.com/VwqAgH0Xs5

— Felix Reda (@Senficon) July 5, 2018

Now, the Internet has been saved for at least a short time, but copyright organisations will not give up the proposal to promote such.