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EU Speaks Out Against US Censorship
bs0d3 writes "The EU Parliament has adopted, 'by a large majority,' a statement warning the US to refrain 'from unilateral measures to revoke IP addresses or domain names' due to the 'need to protect the integrity of the global internet and freedom of communications.' This resolution highlights both the practices prescribed in SOPA/PIPA... but also the actions of Homeland Security and ICE in seizing domain names. By adopting a resolution against domains seizures the European Parliament recognizes the dangerous precedent the pending SOPA legislation would set, and it wouldn't be a surprise if more foreign criticism follows. No country should have the ability to simply take over international domain names, and surely the US would feel the same if this plan was put in motion by a foreign country. Or as some 60 press freedom and human rights advocate groups put it in their letter to the US representatives: 'This is as unacceptable to the international community as it would be if a foreign country were to impose similar measures on the United States.'"
I was in college during Tiananmen Square. Chinese students studying in America were persecuted for things they said on the internet here once they got back home.
Other countries do that to. US forces are trained by foreign countries at the Center on Global Counterterrorism.
In all fairness the US is essentially policing the world right now. It is not exactly an even comparison.
Not that often. And generally the country that the people are being extradited from is glad for the US taking the case.
As an EU citizen, I find US practices completely unacceptable.
Then don't register your domain here if you don't like the rules here. Problem solved.
The whole world would be much saner, happier and peaceful place without US.
ya, right, remember that the next time we bail your ass out of trouble. Idiot.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
You seem to think that it's living hell for Chinese, every day. It's not. Having lived there (and elsewhere in the Asia) for long time, it's really peaceful and nice. Even cops act like human beings, compared to the US mentality of shooting first, asking questions later. The only thing you cannot do is try to get a gathering of millions of people to riot on streets. Do you honestly think such a thing would be good in China, with billions of people? It would turn the country in turmoil. And besides, it wouldn't be allowed in US either. Hell, in US you apparently get arrested for dancing.
Nobody asked them to? What planet are you from? If Europeans didn't want US troops in Europe, they could leave NATO, ask US troops to leave, and pay for their own defense. The US tax payer would thank them enormously. Instead, Europeans are happy to be protected by US troops, even happier not to have to pay for it, and then have the gall to complain about how "militaristic" the US supposedly is.
Oh, typical: Europe is getting rid of a political hot potato and then placing the blame on the US.