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Wikipedia is an American service. EU legislators should not stop until every major American service is destroyed or at least kicked out of Europe. GDPR is a good first step; proposed copyright legislation is the next one. There's no place for American hegemony and corporate greed in Europe.

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You've been posting a lot of inflammatory political comments, and that's simply not what this site is for. Could you please not do this?

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How are EU startups going to compete if this proposed law is passed? If the proposed law is intended as a trade barrier, it needs to favor EU startups.

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It doesn't sound so bad.

How did that work out for Eastern Europe when the Soviet Union was in power?

Actually, not that bad, if you ask me

We had the the Russian Film School, the Polish Film and Animation school because of that

We had Stanisław Lem and Andrei Tarkovsky

We had East Germany Punk that inspired a lot of European bands (including Italian CCCP)

Now there is no typical eastern cultural product anymore.

Even in China they now produce massive blockbusters with American actors...

Why are people so desperate to trot out this one tired example while ignoring every other country and pretending context doesn't exist?

I don’t know why you’re getting downvotes. American business represent some of the absolute worst excesses of capitalist greed and have no place in somewhere as progressive and forward thinking in Europe, or even China. Pro-people laws like the GDRP and this copyright go a long way in fighting communities that the alt-right and neo Nazis fester in. Just imagine if that Nazi frog could be wiped from the internet and its posters arrested for hate speech.

I’m excited about this and it brings us closer to a world where America means less and people mean more.

> Pro-people laws like the GDRP and this copyright

I quite like the GDPR. I don't see how the current proposed law is of any benefit to people. It benefits a limited amount of companies. Good luck competing with e.g. Youtube if you have to invest 60M EUR in a difficult to create copyright filter.

> I don’t know why you’re getting downvotes. American business represent some of the absolute worst excesses of capitalist greed and have no place in somewhere as progressive and forward thinking in Europe, or even China.

Probably because this article is about Wikipedia, which I've never once heard accused of being greedy.

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