A couple of months ago I started to hearing about a EU project called article 13, this proposal has as its main goal extend the copyrights of corporations on the internet. Creating things like a link tax, and making mechanisms to verify copyrights violations on the internet mandatory.
This kind of proposal can and will certainly harm the freedom of expression and the businesses of all EU citizens, and may have impacts all over the world. What make me angry and afraid, is the fact the this proposal is having too little media coverage, and what is worse, the citizens of the EU don't seen to be giving much attention to it.
The question we should be asking ourselves is: How things like that happen? How representative democracy can misrepresent so badly the interests of the people? What make us not care about the questions that should concern us?
The questions that I'm asking to myself, are probably questions that have been answers by hundreds of different thinkers in the past, but I feel that we must question any sign of apathy in our society, until the day we finally awake to the political discussions that need to happen or die while sleeping.