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[ NNSquad ] EU plan to voluntarily remove "terrorist content" finally concludes
EU plan to voluntarily remove "terrorist content" finally concludes
http://j.mp/Xl9e6I (ars technica)
"During the last two years, CleanIT, the European Commission-funded
project group to "reduce terrorist use of the Internet," has met on a
regular basis trying to come up with a set of voluntary general
principles to achieve that vague goal. Earlier this month, the group
published its "final report," in which it called for a "flag this as
terrorism" content button in your browser ... Again and again,
participants seemed to present an untenable position: they would
respect existing European human rights and freedom of expression laws
but at the same time would assure that "illegal" terrorism websites
would disappear from the European Internet ... Now that the project's
funding has run out, will it continue? Will Europeans start seeing
terrorism-warning buttons built directly into their browsers? It still
seems highly unlikely."
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I suspect a "flag this content as an inane government proposal" browser
button would be rather more useful.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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