Today, MEPs on the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament were asked to decide: Should your freedom to participate on the web be restricted to serve corporate interests – or should alternative measures be adopted that safeguard fundamental rights?

Despite a massive outpouring of protest from voters during these last few days, the majority voted for both the link tax and upload filters:

Restrict the web Open internet Abstained Article 11: Link tax 13 ✔ 12 0 Article 13: Censorship machines 15 ✔ 10 0 Approve the overall Committee position 14 ✔ 9 2

This is an unacceptable outcome that I will challenge in the next plenary session , asking all 750 MEPs to vote on whether to accept the Committee’s result or open it up for debate in that larger forum, which would then give us a final chance to make changes.

This vote will likely happen on July 4. Let’s make this the independence day of the internet, the day we #SaveYourInternet from censorship machines and a link tax. Are you in?

Who voted to restrict your internet

Who voted which way was not officially recorded. But according to my team’s observations, these are the MEPs who voted for restricting your freedoms online:

MEP Voted for Axel Voss

EPP , Germany Pavel Svoboda

EPP, Czech Republic Rosa Estaras Ferragut

EPP, Spain Tadeusz Zwiefka

EPP, Poland József Szájer

EPP, Hungary Francis Zammit Dimech

EPP, Malta Geoffroy Didier

EPP, France Enrico Gasbarra

S&D , Italy Mary Honeyball

S&D, United Kingdom Jean-Marie Cavada

ALDE , France Marinho e Pinto

ALDE, Portugal Sajjad Karim

ECR , United Kingdom Joëlle Bergeron

EFDD , France Marie-Christine Boutonnet

ENF , France Gilles Lebreton

ENF, France

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