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The Great Firewall of Europe

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-that'll-happen dept.

Glyn Moody writes "The Presidency of the EU's Law Enforcement Working Party wants to create [PDF] 'a single secure European cyberspace with a certain "virtual Schengen border" and "virtual access points" whereby the Internet Service Providers (ISP) would block illicit contents on the basis of the EU "black-list."' Leaving aside the fact that this won't work for lots of reasons, how seriously can you take anyone talking about 'cyberspace' in 2011?"

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  1. Let me guess the eurocrat thinking here by damburger · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    1) Our economies aren't recovering fast enough
    2) The Chinese economy is growing really fast
    3) Lets do what the Chinese are doing...
    4) ...censor the Interwebs!

    The next logical step is for David Cameron to run over protestors at the royal wedding with tanks.

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