Internet Insider: We delivered your voices against the link tax!
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INTERNET INSIDER
June 17, 2016
For the last few weeks we’ve been asking you to respond to a crucial European Commission consultation on proposals that threaten our ability to freely and easily share online content. Last Wednesday was the final deadline for this Commission's consultation on Ancillary Copyright (aka the Link Tax), and we successfully put your voices on the public record! We had 9,937 responses from the European Union, along with 27,660 from the rest of the world. As part of the official submission, we provided a full breakdown of these statistics to the Commission, which you can now read in full right here. Thanks to you, we’re having a huge impact on our fight to #SaveTheLink!
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