RE: EU Promotes Continent-Wide Censorship

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 All thos edifferent laws in each country in the EU is exactly why a "union" of different countries is not a feasable 
idea, unless your end goal is a "United States of Europe" that is goverened by a central government under one 
centralized set of laws that act as a baseline that each State in the Union can build their own laws from.
   
   If companies want to do business in every country in the EU, they will have to deal with the different laws, tough 
crap.  I'm not buying their sob stories about how hard it is to comply with all the different laws....  Again, tough 
crap, thye just have to deal with it.

  Mike B    

Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


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Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 9:55 AM
To: Fergie
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] EU Promotes Continent-Wide Censorship

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Fergie wrote:

> Via The Register.
>
> [snip]
>
> EU media commissioner Viviane Reding yesterday defended proposals for
> continent-wide censorship laws to control the Internet, telephone
> communications and radio broadcasts, while bringing television
> regulators under the same set of rules.
>
> She told a press conference her aim was to protect children and prevent
> the incitement of hatred, reported Reuters news agency. The plan would
> see rules governing television broadcasts replicated to regulate other
> media.
>
> She said there had been agreement at a meeting of European Union culture
> ministers that content that "goes too far" and "destroys our society"
> should be blocked. They wanted to see content that conformed with "basic
> societal values".
>
> The rules would promote an internal market for media firms who currently
> faced a smorgasbord of rules in different countries. It had "nothing to
> do with free speech" she said.
>
> [snip]
>
> No, it has everything to do with spoon-feeding your
> contituents pablum.
 
It depends how you read it.

Consider this. Every country *already* has censorship rules. For example, 
child pornogaphy is censored everywhere. It "goes too far" and "should be 
blocked". I think most people agree on this.

But different countries have different rules. In the context of the EU, we
want a single set of rules, otherwise you can have a TV broadcast or web
site that is perfectly legal in one country, but illegal in another. How 
can a company operate in such a market? With extreme difficulty. But maybe 
it's possible to agree on a single set of censorship rules?

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