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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Re:The only thing without frontiers is

[Babbster]

Now perhaps I'll stop replying to people, and the thread can die a natural death - next time I'm irritated by someone, I'll not bother posting, I reckon!

Yeah, that works just fine for me. OR, you could post your anti-US government rants in one of the innumerable discussions on Slashdot about bad US policies.

By your tone, you'd think that Slashdot was a haven for anti-EU propaganda, when in truth this site far more frequently demonstrates a distrust of the US government and distaste for many of its policies (especially in terms of violations of the Bill of Rights).

Again, though, you're right. You should definitely just shed a tear, turn off your PC and refuse to discuss things with we meanies here on the US-based Slashdot. Perhaps you could cry on the shoulders of a webmaster of a .co.uk domain who might actually give a damn about the subject of the actual article here?

Re:The only thing without frontiers is

[TheDreadSlashdotterD]

Bush is Hitler

Haven't seen it? You haven't searched it!

http://www.google.com/search?q=Heil+Bush&start=0 &ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozill a:en-US:official

Re:The only thing without frontiers is

[corbettw]

As a foreign national living in the USA, it obviously concerns me a lot more than your average slashdotter, but the language of who this bill affects is sufficiently vague as to probably include US citizens as well.

Two points: as long as you don't take part in acts of agression against our country, you're safe. If you're planning on taking part in those things, please leave, and quit bitching about your "rights".

Second, the bill doesn't trump the Constitution, it just points out that foreign enemies don't get the benefit of the Constitution. Nothing in it applies to American citizens, unless they first renounce their citizenship and take up arms against the country.

This isn't the end of the world, not by a long shot. Quit being such a cry-baby.