To me, this sounds awfully lot like all the other stupid "directive proposals" we've been hearing about, and there are a lot of those."The EU wants to regulate the curvature of bananas", "Tar will be banned forever", "Growing linen will not be allowed", etc. You get the point.We should remember that these draft proposals are written up all the time, in huge numbers. And hey, what was that word again? PROPOSAL. It's not like it's definately going to make the cut. In fact, most proposals don't. And if it happens to pass, most likely it'll end up watered down, setting only guidelines on advertising and hatespeak, not licensing.
A completely other thing is, do we really need this? As has been mentioned earlier, hatespeak, kiddypr0n etc. is already banned in most countries. This is redundant. Besides, how are they going to enforce such a directive? Suppose I "lose" my e-mail account's username and password, and they end up in the hands of a few buddies and strangers. That would mean that I made my data public, enabling everybody to download the bestiality-smut from my inbox...;-) How would that be different from a simple accident (not punishable)?
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To me, this sounds awfully lot like all the other stupid "directive proposals" we've been hearing about, and there are a lot of those."The EU wants to regulate the curvature of bananas", "Tar will be banned forever", "Growing linen will not be allowed", etc. You get the point.We should remember that these draft proposals are written up all the time, in huge numbers. And hey, what was that word again? PROPOSAL. It's not like it's definately going to make the cut. In fact, most proposals don't. And if it happens to pass, most likely it'll end up watered down, setting only guidelines on advertising and hatespeak, not licensing. A completely other thing is, do we really need this? As has been mentioned earlier, hatespeak, kiddypr0n etc. is already banned in most countries. This is redundant. Besides, how are they going to enforce such a directive? Suppose I "lose" my e-mail account's username and password, and they end up in the hands of a few buddies and strangers. That would mean that I made my data public, enabling everybody to download the bestiality-smut from my inbox...;-) How would that be different from a simple accident (not punishable)?