Official EU agencies falsely report hundreds of archive.org URLs as terrorist content

[Granular]

Archive.org created a blog post yesterday documenting the erroneous notices to take down terrorist content they've received from various EU agencies - something they're obligated to do within 1 hour.

As they explain, complying with the requirement would necessitate removing content automatically and reviewing the takedown after the fact, which could prove disasterous, when the takedown notice is for a crucial part of the site.

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At least 550 archive.org URLs were falsely identified by the EU IRU in the past week as terrorist propaganda, including:

• major collection pages (displaying millions of items), many pertaining only to material preserved and posted directly by the Internet Archive, others that include user-uploaded content,
• scholarly articles,
• US Government-produced broadcasts and reports,
• User-posted materials that clearly do not fit the EU IRU notices’ description as terrorist propaganda

Inb4 EU bans reading anything that's not EU approved, classifying it as potential terrorist content. But seriously, as much as this is a reason to mock the EU, the only reason the US isn't doing similarly stupid stuff is that their tech giants spend millions bribing "lobbying" their governments.

 

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[Quadriplegic]

So, it begins

[suicidalfranco]

All i want for Christmas is an Italexit

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

That's all kinds of messed up.  I could understand if it would be automated requests based on trigger words, but with several agencies involved that seems unlikely. 

[Fnige]

EU, Why?

[Trik'Stari]

Things like this are why I laugh at people who are mad over Brexit and wanted to remain.

 

Like seriously, you want to stay within a larger government, over which you have no control of, and is trying to do idiotic shit like this?

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

4 hours ago, Granular said:

I would say it's a rather opaque dictatorship.

I see what you did there.

 

3 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

Like seriously, you want to stay within a larger government, over which you have no control of, and is trying to do idiotic shit like this?

^This, initially i voted remain. But the more shady shit that EU are doing everyday has convinced me otherwise.

[NunoLava1998]

4 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

Things like this are why I laugh at people who are mad over Brexit and wanted to remain.

 

Like seriously, you want to stay within a larger government, over which you have no control of, and is trying to do idiotic shit like this?

[Brooksie359]

6 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

Things like this are why I laugh at people who are mad over Brexit and wanted to remain.

 

Like seriously, you want to stay within a larger government, over which you have no control of, and is trying to do idiotic shit like this?

The UK has made equally stupid laws so honestly I am unsure it matters much. Let's just hope the UK leaving doesn't wreck trade between them and the EU. 

[Brooksie359]

8 hours ago, Granular said:

Archive.org created a blog post yesterday documenting the erroneous notices to take down terrorist content they've received from various EU agencies - something they're obligated to do within 1 hour.

As they explain, complying with the requirement would necessitate removing content automatically and reviewing the takedown after the fact, which could prove disasterous, when the takedown notice is for a crucial part of the site.

Inb4 EU bans reading anything that's not EU approved, classifying it as potential terrorist content. But seriously, as much as this is a reason to mock the EU, the only reason the US isn't doing similarly stupid stuff is that their tech giants spend millions bribing "lobbying" their governments.

 

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I would say it's a huge assumption that the US would do the same without lobbyists. I would argue the reason the US doesn't do dumb shit like this is because we aren't bat shit crazy like the EU is with it's crazy fines for whatever they feel like. It's much easier to simply vote people out of office if citizens dont like what our representatives are doing compared to trying to the EU with politicians being from multiple different countries. 

[ravenshrike]

10 hours ago, Granular said:

But seriously, as much as this is a reason to mock the EU, the only reason the US isn't doing similarly stupid stuff

No, it's because the 1st amendment means that the citizenry can tell the government to fuck right off.

[PlayStation 2]

As power-hungry as leaders get in America, Europe does that better than us.

Perhaps it's for the better that America does power grabbing worse.

[Eaglerino]

They hate the archive sites because they can't edit the text after the fact

[Syntaxvgm]

5 hours ago, NunoLava1998 said:

every time I think it's satire then it's not. Surely this one is, I can't find it on twitter. 
All you have to do is scroll through it to find this shit. Either they're delusional or they're being really public about this as that's the least they can do when they're forced to do this. 

[Trik'Stari]

9 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

The UK has made equally stupid laws so honestly I am unsure it matters much. Let's just hope the UK leaving doesn't wreck trade between them and the EU. 

At least the people of the UK somewhat have control over the UK government, more so than the EU government anyways.

[Drak3]

10 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

would say it's a huge assumption that the US would do the same without lobbyists.

Particularly when some of the bigger lobbyists are wanting the US to play follow the tyrant leader with the EU.

[Evanair]

Chinese Government: Great Firewall was a success, nothing can keep information from out citizens like our firewall.

 

EU: Hold my Beer...

 

 

[D13H4RD]

Inb4 Frexit 

[jaggysnake57]

On 4/11/2019 at 11:33 AM, RejZoR said:

They'll get him convicted. They'll make shit up for as long as it takes until they bring him down through legal channels. UK is pretty much a dictator state at this point given how they are behaving for the last several years.

 

On 4/11/2019 at 12:01 PM, Master Disaster said:

Let's ignore the contents and context of his leaks, I agree this isn't the place for that debate.

 

The guy leaked confidential US military documents, the US government has a legitimate claim for him to stand trial. He also did skip bail here in England which again is a legitimate reason for an arrest warrant.

 

As I said, I seriously doubt the UK will agree to extradite him to anywhere pending a death sentence (although to be honest I wouldn't be surprised if I was proved wrong) but you can't deny that he did commit the crime. The evidence of that is public knowledge at this point.

 

On 4/11/2019 at 12:18 PM, cj09beira said:

just look at the tommy Robinson "trial", and this last one where he was suing the police, your legal system is everything but just

 

On 4/11/2019 at 12:23 PM, cj09beira said:

if that was true, he would not have been sent to jail, and the police would have lost in the last trial 

 

On 4/11/2019 at 9:21 AM, suicidalfranco said:

All i want for Christmas is an Italexit

 

On 4/11/2019 at 10:16 AM, RuffRuffmcgruff said:

Should've stayed as a free and open market, not the clear dictatorship it's becoming...

 

On 4/11/2019 at 10:42 AM, SlimyPython said:

EU, Why?

 

On 4/11/2019 at 7:19 PM, handymanshandle said:

As power-hungry as leaders get in America, Europe does that better than us.

Perhaps it's for the better that America does power grabbing worse.

 

 

On 4/11/2019 at 5:28 PM, Brooksie359 said:

I would say it's a huge assumption that the US would do the same without lobbyists. I would argue the reason the US doesn't do dumb shit like this is because we aren't bat shit crazy like the EU is with it's crazy fines for whatever they feel like. It's much easier to simply vote people out of office if citizens dont like what our representatives are doing compared to trying to the EU with politicians being from multiple different countries. 

 

4 hours ago, Evanair said:

Chinese Government: Great Firewall was a success, nothing can keep information from out citizens like our firewall.

 

EU: Hold my Beer...

 

 

 

 

try reading the article 

 

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CORRECTION: This post previously identified the sender of the 550 falsely identified URLs as Europol’s EU Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU). The sender was in fact, the French national Internet Referral Unit, using Europol’s application, which sends the email from an @europol.europa.eu address. The EU IRU has informed us that it is not involved in the national IRUs’ assessment criteria of terrorist content.

it was the french who did this. instead of believing all the propaganda you read on Facebook or what ever why not do some actual research. the EU is not a dictatorship, it is democratic. countries VOTE in there MEPs who vote on the business  of the day and ELECT the parliament president and the commission president. 

[suicidalfranco]

26 minutes ago, jaggysnake57 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

try reading the article 

 

it was the french who did this. instead of believing all the propaganda you read on Facebook or what ever why not do some actual research. the EU is not a dictatorship, it is democratic. countries VOTE in there MEPs who vote on the business  of the day and ELECT the parliament president and the commission president. 

still want an Italexit

 

And the EU is anything but democratic

[VanayadGaming]

add the correction @op please. This isn't the "eu" doing this. 

 

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CORRECTION: This post previously identified the sender of the 550 falsely identified URLs as Europol’s EU Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU). The sender was in fact, the French national Internet Referral Unit, using Europol’s application, which sends the email from an @europol.europa.eu address. The EU IRU has informed us that it is not involved in the national IRUs’ assessment criteria of terrorist content.

 

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, jaggysnake57 said:

Why was I quoted in this? That quote was from an entirely different thread

[Master Disaster]

3 hours ago, D13H4RD said:

Inb4 Frexit 

With Macron that's not exactly an impossibility.

[jaggysnake57]

3 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

still want an Italexit

 

And the EU is anything but democratic

the facts beg to differ

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Why was I quoted in this? That quote was from an entirely different thread

becasue im a twat

 

i was going to quote in a different thread then couldnt be arsed and forgot to cancel the multi quote

[Brooksie359]

On 4/13/2019 at 2:57 AM, jaggysnake57 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

try reading the article 

 

it was the french who did this. instead of believing all the propaganda you read on Facebook or what ever why not do some actual research. the EU is not a dictatorship, it is democratic. countries VOTE in there MEPs who vote on the business  of the day and ELECT the parliament president and the commission president. 

Doesn't matter tbh. Still doesn't change the fact that the EU is a bunch of power hungry morons.