EU response to free speech killings? More internet censorship!
(Gigaom):
https://gigaom.com/2015/01/11/eu-response-to-free-speech-killings-more-internet-censorship/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=eu-response-to-free-speech-killings-more-internet-censorship_905730
The interior ministers of France, Germany, Latvia, Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden
and the U.K. said in a statement (PDF) that, while the internet
must remain "in scrupulous observance of fundamental freedoms, a
forum for free expression, in full respect of the law," ISPs need
to help "create the conditions of a swift reporting of material
that aims to incite hatred and terror and the condition of its
removing, where appropriate/possible.
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European leaders seem lately to be reliably wrong on most free speech
issues coming down the pipe. It's especially damaging when they try to
extend their misguided, counterproductive views on this subject to the
world beyond Europe. Censorship doesn't work in the Internet era.
Trying to remove or deindex materials you fear or dislike only drives
them underground in more dangerous ways.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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