Article 13 will wreck the internet because Swedish MEPs accidentally pushed the

[ChrisSmolinski]

Article 13 will wreck the internet because Swedish MEPs accidentally pushed the wrong voting button 

In the EU, if a Member of the Parliament presses the wrong button on a vote, they can have the record amended to show what their true intention was, but the vote is binding.

Today, the European Parliament voted to pass the whole Copyright Directive without a debate on Articles 11 and 13 by a margin of five votes.

But actually, a group of Swedish MEPs have revealed that they pressed the wrong button, and have asked to have the record corrected. They have issued a statement saying they'd intended to open a debate on amendments to the Directive so they could help vote down Articles 11 and 13.

We lost on a technicality, and there is no recourse.

This is the most significant piece of internet regulation ever undertaken by a democratic government (that is, excluding Russian and Chinese internet regulations). It will do untold damage to the whole internet.

And it's because someone pushed the wrong button.

It's the Edward Tufte apocalypse. It'd be funny, if it didn't make me want to smash my laptop.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/26/jfc-fml-jfc.html

[ChrisSmolinski]

“Today we had three push-button votes on the Copyright Directive. On one of the votes, we pressed the wrong button: the vote on the order in which we would vote. If it had gone through we could’ve voted on deleting Article 13, which we wanted. The vote should have ended up 314–315. ”

On Twitter, SD’s group leader on the EU committee of the Swedish parliament claimed that SD MEPs pressed the wrong button.

https://medium.com/@emanuelkarlsten/sweden-democrats-swedish-social-democrats-defeat-motion-to-amend-articles-11-13-731d3c0fbf30

[Traveling Wave]

Sounds like a cop out...avoid doing something that one ought to do.
"he copped out at the last moment"
synonyms: avoid, shirk, skip, dodge, sidestep, skirt round, bypass, steer clear of, evade, escape, run away from, shrink from, slide out of, back out of, pull out of, turn one's back on;

[Josh]

Brexit, itexit, grexit, dexit, etc can't come soon enough.

[ChrisSmolinski]