Record numbers sign petition against 'meme' article

Online petitioners clamored in record numbers for the European Union to abandon the controversial Article 17, formerly Article 13, of its new directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which the EU’s Parliament voted to adopt Tuesday.

Over 5.2 million users on petition website Change.org signed a petition titled “Stop the censorship-machinery! Save the Internet!” That is the most signatures on any single petition in the history of the site, exceeding the 4.9 million signatures on a petition in 2016 begging electoral college voters in states won by President Trump to go rogue and cast their votes for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.