The epidemic of fraudulent DMCA takedowns
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There’s an enormous and largely invisible campaign to use fraudulent notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove critical articles from the internet. We don’t know who is running…

There’s an enormous and largely invisible campaign to use fraudulent notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove critical articles from the internet. We don’t know who is running the campaign, but we do know it’s facilitated by Google’s amazingly trustworthy approach to DMCA complaints made by companies that don’t exist.

  • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I thought it was common knowledge that there are companies dedicated to suppressing information on the net by using (fraudulently or not) the DMCA, GDPR, and whatever else.

    I doubt anything can be done about this.