Wednesday, September 12, 2007

EU wants to take control of your internet

"Internet searches for bomb-making instructions should be blocked across the European Union, the bloc's top security official said on Monday.

Internet providers should also prevent access to any site giving instructions on how to make a bomb, EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said in an interview.

"I do intend to carry out a clear exploring exercise with the private sector ... on how it is possible to use technology to prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism," Frattini told Reuters.

The EU executive is to make this proposal to member states early in November as part of a raft of anti-terrorism proposals.

These include the screening of private data of passengers flying into the 27-nation bloc"
"Kill Bill", "Bomb Squad Training Manual", "Genocides in history" and "Preventing terrorism". Invalid searches, you're now labeled as a terrorist, please hold while authorities are on their way to your location.

There's alot of crap on the internet for sure, but restricting and censoring it is not the way to go, and anyhow, it would be as easy to use any other medium to promote 'terrorist' propaganda. Also, some read about bomb making and such for research, not because they want to blow up a schoolbus.

Web search for bomb recipes should be blocked: EU

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Not Fair =)