And so if you're a startup, for example, this is going to be a new cost.

They're going to have to go to your venture capitalists and say, I'm sorry, I need another 50 million to pay for this filtering technology.

So ironically, this is going to harm the EU startup ecosystem enormously.

It won't harm Google and it won't harm Facebook.

You're listening to the Corbett Report.

Welcome, friends, James Corbett here, Corbett Report. Welcome, friends James Corbett here, CorbettReport.com in a conversation that's being recorded on the 23rd of July 2019.

And today we're going to be talking to a new guest here on the Corbett Report, Glenn Moody, who is a writer, a blogger, a commentator, a thinker on openness, the commons, copyright,

patents, and digital rights and related issues. He often writes for techdirt.com, and we'll be talking

about one of his techdirt articles right now. But he is perhaps most adequately accessed at

Twitter.com slash Glenn Moody. I will, of course, put those

links in the show notes for people who are interested in following them. Glenn, thank you very much

for joining us today.

Pleggler. Today we're going to be talking about a TechDirt article that you wrote for TechDirt last

week, specifically EU looking to regulate everything online and to make sites proactively

remove material, which starts by noting that one of the reasons that Techdirt and many others fought

so hard against the worst ideas of the EU copyright directive is that it was clearly

the thin end of the wedge. If things like upload filters and the imposition of intermediary

liability become widely implemented

as the result of legal requirements in the field of copyright, it would only be a matter

of time before they were extended to other domains.

NetsPolitic has obtained a seven-page European Commission paper sketching ideas for a new

EU Digital Services Act that suggests doing exactly that.

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