[mesk]

Cool, so the US students will be able to read school banned books ? Or US state banned research papers ? Or US state banned historic books or photos ? Or soft banned late night shows - so Colbert will continue ? Kimmel ? Or domains of shadow book libraries banned by FBI/corporate requests ? And it will circumvent geoblocking enforced mostly by US companies ?

Cool, such a heroic effort to remove censorship from theinternet that US enforces on us :-)

Ooh, almost forgotten there also some porn and media pirating sites blocked in the EU that will surely get also unblocked. But who cares, there are thousands of theese....

Btw. did Putin and Xi allowed this ? Or their `free` internet will remain free as before.

[Manuel_D]

When has the US ever banned students from reading certain books or research papers? What research papers can I not legally read?

The domains of shadow libraries are banned for copyright infringement, you can still read the books legally by purchasing a copy.

[mesk]

Here you can find short sample of those `dangerous` books: https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/

And https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/cdc-orders-retracti...

And, I know those shadow libraries are banned because of copyright, but that's just an excuse. If someone pushes such a broad understanding of Freedom as US does, than copyright should maybe not be the one exception that's ok. People should have freedom to publish anything and other should have freedom to read/play/watch anything. If US can ban something because of so abstract as copyright, why can't EU ban something because of so abstract as `its all lies and state sponsored propaganda` ?

NOTE: just playing devils advocate here, to show the hypocrisy of it all...