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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Kansas has tried this

[dattaway]

Here in Kansas, we tried to eliminate science, physics, biology (embryos, etc...) and other things that weren't in the bible. Its not working.

People know how to find Wikipedia and find out how to make energy uncontrollable.