Pirates say ‘Narrgh’ to EU Terrorism Censorship
Written by Ben Jones on October 03, 2007Pirate Parties around the world are protesting against a recent Net censorship proposal by EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini. Frattini has recently been urging ministers at the European Union to consider censoring certain search keywords in a bid to curb terrorism.
Commissioner Frattini’s plans are based upon the ‘hidden knowledge’ method. In a nutshell, he hopes that by banning certain words from being searched on the internet, within the EU, it will reduce the ability of would-be terrorists to carry out attacks. Suggested keywords to be filtered include “bomb”, “kill”, “genocide”, and “terrorism” whilst any attempt to get around these restrictions, by using a proxy, for instance, will be met by criminal action.
This proposal has come under fire however, by Pirate Parties all around the world. The Chairman of the Austrian Pirate Party, Florian Hufsky, stated “it’s a tyrannical attempt to curtail useful knowledge from the general public on par with policies of China, Saudi Arabia and North Korea. Thus, whilst ineffective as a measure, it is a strong deviation from the principles of the open society.”
With the various Pirate Parties aiming for the European Parliament in 2009, there is not a voice that can easily be discounted, and with the incumbents making these gargantuan faux-pas, it may seem that they are in with a shot of success
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I actually think that this will work perfectly. Think about it. How much violence was there before the internet? None! We lived in perfect agreement with one another. Then the internet came along and taught us how to kill. Bad bad internet!
[quote comment="179733"]They want a world just like theirs, where every thing is censored and there is no such thing as freedom in any form.[/quote]
Ever heard of domestic terrorism? *cough*oklahoma*cough*
One man’s “terrorist” is another man’s freedom fighter.
[quote comment="179954"]Another great proposal from the Morons in the EU.
So glad my country not a part of that sesspool.[/quote]
Another great comment from the morons outside EU. So glad I’m not part of that cesspool.
[quote comment="179668"]Sounds like Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany, in all honesty. Way to go, EU![/quote]
It hasn’t (and most likely won’t) been approved yet, perhaps you should bother reading the article, and not just the headline.
[quote comment="179668"]Sounds like Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany, in all honesty. Way to go, EU![/quote]
Let me remind you that it’s still just a proposal. And I’m pretty sure it will stay that way.
It’s time to stand up against them limiting our freedom. The governments don’t give a damn about us! The governments are limiting our freedom! War on terrorism is a big damn lie!
Everyone should wake up and see what is going on, soon we will become slaves.
did all our politicans get off the short bus?
lets ban these words as well Freedom, Liberty, Justice, Earth, free speech, human rights, peace, love, kindness, compasion, why not the word “bed” as well
if your afraid of terrorists, STOP slapping the little brown people around and they wont want to go blow up your city, simple aint it?
if u ban the word “bomb” then terrorists will use “package” or “car” or something. Words are not the problem, its the nazis in power that are.
They made a wasteland and called it peace.
~ Tacitus
What a fucking retard, but understand, dear readers that this guy and the people behind these things aren’t doing or suggestings these measures for the reasons they claim, or because they think it will do anything to curb terror.
The goal they have is to set the precedent of censorship on the net. Large governments and corporations (in the western world it is often indestinguisable as far as who is really calling the shots)have wanted to get control of the net for a long time now. They see it as providing too much freedom, too much free information that isn’t going through the corporate media (which is the tool the government uses to control the masses) too much power givien to anybody to organize or to get a message to the masses.
They will not stop, and they eventually will find a way to put controls in place; likely taxes too…And of course, if they are successful at doing this the way they do everything else, they might even have the people asking for it…after all, it’t “for your protection and safety.”
Nice to see that politicians are idiots who havn’t bothered to remember how l33tsp34k developed nor have they ever heard of the Streisand Effect.
The EU aren’t the only ones who want control of the net:
http://tinyurl.com/39n7my
Anyway, everyone knows that in soviet russia, terrorism searches you!
I remember back when i was young, AOL was doing this kind of censorship.
What happened ? Our much beloved 31337 7alk.
Welcome to our new friends :
b0mb
k1ll
gen0c1de
terr0r15m
Old people who cant figure out technology need to die quickly.
[quote comment="179842"]I like this idea. It should be expanded to many more words, though. Anything “bad” should not be allowed. This way the web stays clean and pure, which is the way everything should be. I think once its made illegal to use these words, then we should monitor secretly for awhile all people who ignore the law. Once the list gets to a certain size, they should all be arrested.[/quote]
You have been protected all your life havent you? There is nothing pure about this world we live in. Allowing a bill like that to pass will only cause problems for future generations.
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if your afraid of terrorists, STOP slapping the little brown people around and they wont want to go blow up your city, simple aint it?[/quote]
HA!! lol sorry… just found that humorous..
not only could we use leet speak, but other languages, sscypers, heck even binary if needed, not only that if words like genocide are banned get rid of the word on the site switch to video or audio and it makes no difference, what this is is a waste of time, money, effort, and our patience.
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
~ Noam Chomsky
hey i’m italian and yes frattini is a moron. Like many other politicians here in italy. nowadays he is Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security.
This guy was also our Foreign Minister.. it’s pretty sad..
I’m sure terrorists are searching IN ENGLISH for “terrorism.” to get instructions on how to make bombs.
I think something should be done about those fishnets breeding with abandon. If contraceptives can be shown to be effective, then why shouldn’t they be trialled upon isolated fishnet populations?
how to make a bomb, find something flamable and light it up, BOOM.
not hard to do, so why even try to censor anything.
Filtering SEARCH keywords?? Thats the dumbest thing… i’m sure every wannabe terrorist googles “genocide” when they’re feeling mischievous!
Do we have a source on him saying this?
I wouldn’t have thought anyone would be this absurd.
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