Wednesday, 18 May 2011

EU wants to control internet content

The Council of Europe has been discussing plans since February for the EU to have a “single secure cyberspace”, with all “illicit content” from outside the EU being blocked in a system not dissimilar to the way that the Chinese control web content.


An effective EU blacklist would surely raise massive questions as to the freedom of the individual to access legal content. Of greater concern however is the EU’s focus of controlling what the public can access in the first place.


It is yet another example of a European Union which seeks to worryingly meddle in what the citizens of 27 countries have the freedom to do, looking for inspiration from China of all places.


Michael Heaever, Big Brother Watch


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