Unbelievable that they are sneaking this up on the people of Europe. MEPs vote tomorrow on whether to rubber stamp this.
Likely mean the end of sharing links with snippets on social media. AI filters will have to be used to vet content to stop the putting up any kind of video or image that might contain anything copyrighted. Basically to stop the sharing of information.
https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/
The proposals seek to limit our ability to actively participate online to benefit the business models of media conglomerates: “Censorship machines” for internet platforms, a “link tax” for news content and a very narrow exception for text and data mining would curtail how we can share links, upload media and work with data.