The EU parliament has approved new copyright rules that activists have warned could be "catastrophic" for the internet. MEPs voted for the controversial rules, known as article 11 and 13. The most criticized of those is the latter, which stipulates that technology platforms must filter the things people post on them, and check for copyright infringement. Internet freedom advocates warn that could probably force internet companies to introduce stringent new automated checks that content must pass before they are posted to platforms like Twitter and Facebook. That could reject anything that even possibly infringed copyright – leading to potentially banning memes that use screen grabs from films, for instance, according to activists.
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