This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13

Platformy Obywatelska has said that it will vote to block the entire Copyright Directive unless Article 13a ground-breakingly terrible Internet law that will lead to widespread filtering of all Europeans' Internet speech, images, and videosis stricken from the final draft.

EPP, a coalition of European national political parties, is the key backer of Article 13 and the largest party in the European Parliament. Without its support, Article 13 is very unlikely to make it through the final vote.

The EPP is deeply split on the issue. EPP parties from Luxembourg, Sweden and the Czech Republic all oppose the measure, so Poland is in good company.

The other blocs that strongly back Article 13 are the S&D (socialist) and ALDE (liberal) MEPs.

126 members of the Parliament have expressly pledged to vote against Article 13, and more than 5,000,000 Europeans have signed a petition against it. This is the largest petition in European history!

It's vital that Europeans contact their MEPs as soon as possible to urge them to vote against Articles 11 and 13.

On Sunday, the streets of Europe will be flooded with demonstrators marching against the Directive. Read the rest “This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13”