User blog comment:TOR/Join us in protecting the freedom of user-generated content/@comment-168424-20180906214135

I'm surprised that the EU is doing this first. The USA is way more corporatist and that's really what this law is about... protecting corporate interests, but specifically a small group of content creators in the EU. I say small, because compared to the creative content generated out of US/Canada and Asia, the EU is not very big. However, it is big enough to screw everyone around the world.

However, as an American, I'd really like to see the EU try to police this, because it would be nearly impossible to implement and generally just cut the EU out of many creative endeavors. I'm guessing when they think it through, they'll see this is the copyright equivalent of Trumps tariffs.

I'm willing to wait before I get too worried. EU folks should definitely get fired up, but I'm willing to see what happens because as much as I like FANDOM and I use it every day, I can live without it long enough to see what happens.