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..."

Comments

Re:I don't agree...

[fastest fascist]

More importantly, isn't it just a matter of time until laws requiring such filtering are passed? Governments want to control the Internet, and if it is technically feasible, they will do it sooner or later. The only option is to make government interference technically impossible. You can't count on legislation to keep your freedoms. Laws change.

Re:C6H2(NO2)3CH3.

[arivanov]

1. Low power.
2. Hard to purify. The isomers really screw up the quality of the product and getting rid of them in non-industrial environment is cumbersome. The unpurified product is unstable and dangerous to handle.
3. Harder to produce than a number of higher power explosives (Hexogen aka T4 comes to mind).
4. Even if they restrict the search on the Internet any University library will contain everything needed for the purpose and any chemistry major can give it to you anyway as most of these are standard reactions
5. The chap is a "Prodotti di Berlusconi" (I apologise for my bad Italian). Idiots begat more idiots. Ignore and move along.