European lawmaker writes post warning about dangers of automatic copyright filters, which is taken down by an automatic copyright filter

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Julia Reda is the Member of the European Parliament who has led the fight against Article 13, a proposal to force all online services to create automatic filters that block anything claimed as a copyrighted work.

Reda has written copiously on the risks of such a system, with an
emphasis on the fact that these filters are error-prone and likely to
block material that doesn’t infringe copyright.

Guess what happened next!

Topple Track (a notoriously sloppy copyright enforcement bot used by the major entertainment companies) got one of Reda’s posts
on the indiscriminate untrustworthiness of copyright filters removed
from Google’s index by automatically making a false claim of copyright
infringement.

https://boingboing.net/2018/08/21/own-goal.html