EU Commissioner Calls For Censorship of Web Search

An anonymous reader sends us a Reuters story on a statement yesterday by Franco Frattini, the EU Justice and Security commissioner, who believes that Internet searches for bomb-making instructions should be blocked across the European Union. The commissioner "intend[s] to carry out a clear exploring exercise with the private sector... on how it is possible to use technology to prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism..."

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Everything already prepared ...

[foobsr]

"Does Google censor search results?
Yes, they sometimes do, in different countries, like Germany, France or China. Sometimes, specific content is censored globally (including US results, e.g. in the case of certain censored newsgroup messages)."

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-03-02-n19.html

1984 is calling.

CC.

Re:Erosion of civil liberties IS terrorism

[Halow8888]

Where do you think chopsticks came from? Confucious said knifes and forks were killing tools, and thus they were banned from the eating table.

Re:honeypots

[Tsu Dho Nimh]

These sites would contain incorrect information on making bombs, but close enough to be mistaken.

Most of the "anarchist handbooks" in circulation contain recipes that either don't work or are too dangerous to attempt without a full explosives lab. Either the authors were really bad chemists or they were deliberately planting bad info. A good chemist would use the widely available "CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety" and the "CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics" to doublecheck any recipe for efficacy and safety.