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Dutch Legislature Accidentally Votes For Internet Filtering

Posted by Soulskill on from the never-attribute-to-malice-etc dept.

tulcod writes "The Dutch government has accidentally passed an exception to a law on net neutrality, (Google translation of original in Dutch) enabling ISPs to filter internet traffic based on 'ideological motives.' The PvdA (labor party) accidentally voted for this exception to the Telecomwet (telecommunications law), which, on its own, does not allow such filtering. PvdA intends to repair their mistake."

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  1. I can't read Dutch... by Sparx139 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But how the hell do you accidentally vote on a piece of legislation?

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    1. Re:I can't read Dutch... by Yo+Grark · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Have you met most of congress?

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    2. Re:I can't read Dutch... by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually, their ignorance is real, the motivations behind said ignorance are of course malicious. Senators purposely don't read the legislation, they rely on their aides to do it for them(and of course their aides run it by their big donors to get 'input' on the law). Then if their aides say yes they vote for the thing. If they get called out on a certain provision later, they will claim, honestly, that they hadn't read that particular provision. And since the American electorate doesn't punish politicians for ignorance(see Sarah Palin and to a lesser extent George Bush), all is forgiven.

      Thats one thing I never understood about humans, esp. Americans, the result of the action doesn't seem to be nearly as important as the motive. See the outrage and panic over "terrorists", when more Americans die in car crashes EVERY MONTH as died on September 11th. Americans don't seem to care about that because very few people who cause car crashes actually intended to crash......

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