leading digital reforms in public services.
The small, Baltic nation had spent the past several decades in the midst of a technological revolution, using the term "e-Estonia" to describe a set of sweeping digital reforms: Citizens could vote online, pay their taxes online, and track government legislation online.
TC: What was the original impetus for the EU's digital copyright reform, and what did the Commission eventually propose?
European Union lawmakers are facing a major vote on digital copyright reform proposals on Wednesday — a process that has set the Internet's hair fully on fire.
As well as reopening democratic debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal by voting against it being fast-tracked, MEPs have adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the EU-US Privacy Shield.
Pressed on whether low-tax EU economies would be likely to agree to this type of digital tax reform, which would be likely to disadvantage their own economies, he said: "We are not yet at the stage of the proposals so we cannot say how they would react".
A 318-278 majofity of MEPs in the European Parliament has just voted to reopen debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal — meaning it will now face further debate and scrutiny, rather than be fast-tracked towards becoming law via the standard EU trilogue negotiation process.
In a key vote this morning the European Parliament's legal affairs committee has backed the two most controversial elements of a digital copyright reform package — which critics warn could have a chilling effect on Internet norms like memes and also damage freedom of expression online.
Critics of this component of the digital copyright reform package also warn it's unclear what kinds of news content will constitute a snippet, and thus fall under the proposal — even suggesting a URL including the headline of an article could fall foul of the copyright extension; ergo that the hyperlink itself could be in danger.
