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EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:The only thing without frontiers is by Space+cowboy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, the EU may want to go overboard with regulation, but at least we still have habeus corpus, hmm ? I seem to recall that reduces your famous "bill of rights" actually to a "bill of right" - the right not to have soldiers bivouacked at your housewithout your permission...

    To quote one of your more-famous presidents: "Those who give up essential liberty to gain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". I can't think of a more-appropriate quote...

    I'm not the first person to defend the EU, but it does do some good things (and of course some bad ones) - I tend to think their heart is in the right place though, unlike the current US Administration, who seem evil incarnate to me... I'm not so sure that Chavez wasn't so wrong when he was complaining of sulphur smells...

    Simon.

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    Physicists get Hadrons!
  2. EU's a little too left wing these days.. by Asrynachs · · 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.