EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 17, 2006 @01:23PM from the license-to-speak-just-a-small-additional-fee dept.

Aglassis writes to tell us that recent proposed EU legislation could require anyone running a website featuring video content to acquire a broadcast license. From the article: "Personal websites would have to be licensed as a "television-like service". Once again the reasoning behind such legislation is said to be in order to set minimum standards on areas such as hate speech and the protection of children. In reality this directive would do nothing to protect children or prevent hate speech - unless you judge protecting children to be denying them access to anything that is not government regulated or you assume hate speech to be the criticism of government actions and policy."

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EU's a little too left wing these days.. by Asrynachs · 2006-10-17 14:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Europe's on this stint of mentally retarded liberalism these days. God forbid anybody should be offended by somebody elses opinions these days. Do you think the 'regulation' is going to curb those bloody islamists posting videos of people getting their heads chopped off in the name of god? Mind you it's part of their culture and all cultures are euqal no matter what horrific values they may embrace. I guess in the views of the European Union this qualifies as hate speech.