EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers

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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The only thing without frontiers is

[Anonymous Coward]

The EU's desire to regulate every little aspect of a person's life. The question we need to answer now is whether the EU was just a great idea or if it was the greatest idea ever!

Re:The only thing without frontiers is

[dpiven]

Jose Padilla, for instance, was arrested in Chicago, when he got off the plane at O'Hare airport. Not on a battlefield at all.

Yeah? You've never hung out near Baggage Claim then.

Europeans need EU to stop from killing each other

[plierhead]

How long until we see countries leaving the EU? I mean, I really like the idea of a common currency, but given the number of problems and the obvious attempts to create a single government to rule over Europe, how long until the UK decides to leave?

You are slamming the EU by comparing it to a better world - but it is a world that has never existed in Europe.

The fact is that Europeans enjoy slaughtering and conquering each other in extreme numbers. England once three quarters of the globe under its domination. Romans and Spaniards conquered by the sword. Scandanavians raped and pillaged across the continent. Anyone remember Bosnia? And as for Germans - well, lets not even go there.

The fact is that Europeans are savage and warlike and desperately need structures to take their minds of the delicious thought of grabbing their neighbour by the throat.

The EU, with the possibilities it presents of arguing about efforts to introduce standard sizes and curvatures of cucumbers, is just such a device, despite the massive inefficencies it leads to and the bulging false economy it brings to strange people such as the Belgians who if not for the burden of keeping the EU running would be sitting at home listening to never-ending stories of the latest outrage by their largely paedophilic citizens.

How can it be racist?

[tkrotchko]

"European" is not a race.

The only race in Europe worth mentioning is the Nurburgring. And that hasn't been the same ever since they made it so short. Note, however, this was not the fault of the EU, nor was it done to protect children.