In protest against Article 13: Wikipedia goes offline on March 21
of David Wurm 
on March 09, 2019, 15:41 | Write a comment
The vote on the upcoming EU copyright law, or "Article 13", is getting closer and closer. The popular platform Wikipedia is taking a drastic step towards this: on March 21, the platform will be taken offline for 24 hours.
Wikimedia, the Wikipedia Foundation, has long opposed the upcoming upload filter that is to come with EU copyright law. They have long been critical of the planned reform of copyright law in the EU. Now they are protesting themselves and shutting down the site for a day. What will happen now?
Editor's note: wAs Article 13 is accurate, we will refer to it in an upcoming article TechnikNews explain exactly.
Reference to protest
Whoever visits Wikipedia on March 21st is not really referred to a "crazy" server. Instead, a message will appear with the reason for the temporary shutdown. In an open letter one writes there, for example, that “the planned reform could lead to the free Internet being considerably restricted”. People are encouraged to go to demos and contact politicians.
By the way, here you can the petition against Article 13 .
Small businesses are also affected
In the new EU reform, even small businesses would be confronted with the demands of Article 13. Since every community would then have to check when uploading whether this content does not already exist on the Internet or is protected by copyright, this is an enormous effort. Protests like this are intended to draw attention to the wrong path taken by Article 13 and hope for a change in the law. In fact, this change should "only" lead to better copyright law - which will also censor content with a filter, as is required in the current form of the law. "With such legal uncertainty, projects like Wikipedia could not have been created 20 years ago," said Dimitar Dimitrov, EU representative of Wikimedia.
In the coming days we will be on TechnikNews bring a detailed contribution to Article 13. We will clarify all the facts and information about the upcoming EU copyright law there.