Google Launches Defend Your Net Campaign in Germany

In its latest effort to bring attention to government action it considers threatening to the open web, Google is warning German citizens and lawmakers of the potential dangers posed by copyright changes being considered in Germany's parliament.

The campaign and petition is called Verteidige Dein Netz, German for "Defend Your Net." Its target? A proposed law which would allow German publishers to charge Google for the short excerpts seen on sites such as Google News or remove content from the search engine entirely.

Google Germany spokesperson Raif Bremer argued to Mashable that those snippets are "a basic element of the Internet as we know it," and that their use in Germany, previo…
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