EU Views Net Censorship As a "Trade Barrier"

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 28, 2008 @10:25AM from the do-as-i-say dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The European Parliament just passed a proposal to treat internet censorship as a trade barrier, in particular the 'Great Firewall of China.' If passed by the European Council, the issue would be raised in trade negotiations and could lead to economic sanctions and trade restrictions for those countries unwilling to remove oppressive Net censorship." We have discussed some of the ways in which the EU, and its member countries, engage in their own brand of censorship.

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Re:So self-righteously inflicted self-harm? by Jackdaw+Rookery · 2008-02-28 11:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Enlightened Europeans? Care to be more racist? Geez.

It's not like anywhere else uses censorship in dumb ways, right? http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/1953222

Lets keep the discussion sane and avoid the anti-European crap, it's offtopic and stupid.

NB: I live in North America.