UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday October 31, 2010 @01:52PM from the damned-by-association dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A key UK government minister, Ed Vaizey (Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries), has ominously proposed that internet service providers should introduce a new Mediation Service that would allow them the freedom to censor third party content on the Internet, without court intervention, in response to little more than a public complaint. Vaizey anticipates that Internet users could use the 'service' to request that any material deemed to be 'inaccurate' (good luck with that) or privacy infringing is removed. No doubt any genuine complaints would probably get lost in a sea of abuse by commercial firms trying to attack freedom of speech and expression."

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You got it all wrong! by Fluffeh · 2010-10-31 13:55 · Score: 4, Funny

You need to think of this from the child's point of view! We are doing this to protect THEM!

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Re:Which attacks on freedom of speech? by L4t3r4lu5 · 2010-11-01 00:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Why?
Take a private citizen
Kidnapping. Good start.

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