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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English is such a bouncy language:
“It went down a bomb”
“Gonna kill some time”
“It was fashion terrorism”
i couldn’t find an alternative phrase to obfuscated genocide, perhaps that is because genocide is an act of government
Right because no songs or movies or anything have the words “genocide” or “kill” or “murder” in their names
why do governments do such a fucking shit job.
Them politishites call themselves civilized individuals and expect the common people to treat them with respect while listening to their scum proposals …. Unfortunately, one thing a lot of people tend to forget though: they are FUCKING you with respect actually, got my point?
Wake up!
“u have to look at the reason they want to attack you, and if it is something bad you do, stop doing that bad thing.” WTF, So i guess i should stop being British ???
This is also a great favor to Nazis and fascists - in a few years they will be able to claim the holocaust never happened as the searches about it will return nothing. It’s no surprise this idiotic proposition came from a guy from Italy, which has given Benito Mussolini (responsible for the genocide in Africa and on the Balkans during WW2) to this Earth.
And there is also a different aspect to this - instructions on the internet are said to be very unreliable so Mr. Frattini probably wishes terrorists would use more reliable sources such as chemistry books.
Wait, we should ban reading and punish all that can read and write. That would do it, if you can’t read, you cant read chemistry books. Brilliant.
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Welcome to the EUSSR
Hes real enough:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Frattini
Download b o m b here:
http://draves.org/bomb/
Strange how you americans get all hot and bothered. Even if it passed it would only apply to people in the EU. And we have the right to censor our Internet any way we want. But of course censoring this is just silly. However the anti-childporn filter many European countries have *is* working.
[quote comment="180144"]I’m sure terrorists are searching IN ENGLISH for “terrorism.” to get instructions on how to make bombs.[/quote]
Actually that would only be *one* of the languages they would censor (in Europe). Because the article mentions the words in your language does not mean it is limited to that language. It would probably involve *every* language in Europe and then some. Not that this stupid idea will come about.
i will KILL every bugger in EU parliament RAPE every woman of them, set BOMBS on their every vehicle, and launch a TERRORIST ATTACK on their headquarters, and have a shit on their every house as soon as that freaking bill was passed. AM I a damn criminal? if so, tell them to arrest me. my address is there at my web site http://bkthambugala.spaces.live.com
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