alan posner is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper de baets he says europe is forcing the internet giants to respect intellectual property and pay for it and that's good news for. everyone except google. and it's a pleasure to welcome. to the show he heads the department of policy. and he says for free and open we need free and open exchange on the web this reform. so let me start with you and let's begin with the absolute basics what is the filter and why does it strike terror into the heart of the content creator community. is a system that is at. it's installed on the platform.

alan posner is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper de vets' he says europe is forcing the internet giants to respect intellectual property and pay for . and that's good news for everyone except google. and it's a pleasure to welcome. to the show he heads the department of law and policy and media and he says for free and open we need free and open exchange on the web this reform could cause great damage. so let me start with you and let's begin with the absolute basics what is a filter and why does it strike terror into the heart of the content creator community. is a system that is at the. it's installed on the platform. and it scans the uploads and compounds that to a database and if it finds a protected work that it is supposed to block it stopping the upload or it's putting the upload before a post to check whether there was a license for this work and so that's the basic technology and why are people so worried about load filters in the wake of this new directive. well because the technology is very powerful and if you have those kinds of systems everywhere on the int