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“who, like a block, hath denied my access”*: ECJ on internet filtering and blocking
Today, the European Court of Justice gave judgment in the case C-70/10 Scarlet Extended, dealing with an injunction imposed on an ISP to introduce a comprehensive system for filtering and ultimately blocking communications to protect intellectual pro...
Going Dutch: does the internet split the difference between public affairs and government relations?
Koen Droste over at FH Amsterdam recently appeared in the Financieel Dagblad on the subject of the effect of the internet on lobbying. You can check out his take on what the internet means for the practice of public affairs and government relations
What are Cecilia Malmström’s promises on Internet censorship worth?
I have just submitted the following question to the Commission: Written Question to the Commission (Rule 117) AUTHOR(S): ENGSTRÖM, Christian SUBJECT: Commissioner Malmström’s personal actions to oppose extended Internet blocking On May 6, 201...
Cyber war by right-wing extremists in private industry?
There is a growing threat against Leftist-Liberal journalists, activists and groups over the Internet. This growing threat comes from cyber security firms and individuals in them that are charged with tools to combat international terrorism and cyber...
Cybercrime in Europe and in the European Union: No personal affair!
You may have read my previous post in which I asked: “Cybercrime in Europe and in the European Union: A personal affair?” My informed guess in this post was correct: The expert on cybercrime from the Hungarian Council Presidency we –...
Cybercrime in Europe and the European Union: A personal affair?
Update: See also the follow-up to this post "Cybercrime in Europe and the European Union: No personal affair!" "[T]he author of this paper is reasonably confident that by banning a certain kind of criminal activity throughout a large number of co...
Net Neutrality debates continue; A Guide to the Open Internet, DDoS versus human rights organizations etc- a roundup
A Guide to the Open Internet: What You Need to Know About Net Neutrality from Daily Bits by noemi You’ve probably been reading/hearing about net neutrality in the recent months. Left and right, people are talking about it – either trying to push...
Europe launches Google investigation
The upcoming release of Google’s second edition of its own phone – named Nexus S – is part of their attempt to acquire a greater share of the mobile phone...
Net Neutrality Timeline
As Net Neutrality seems to be all over the place at the moment, we considered it couldn’t hurt to put together a summary timeline of the Net neutrality debate. It is obviously not exhaustive and biased in the sense that it tries to highlight so...
Net Neutrality: The Oxford Street Dilemma
The Hon Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, remarked in his recent speech at the Financial Times World Telecoms Conference 2010 (16 & 17th November) that: ‘Unlike in the UK, in some parts of the US...
Fighting child abuse
How to save our kids from sexual predators in the age of the Internet? MEPs debate measures to tackle child porn sites and sex tourism. See the video by EuroparlTV.
Is this the end of net neutrality – and the internet as we know it?
The British are distracted by a royal wedding and the government is eager to change the fundamental principles of the internet! After the radical social welfare cuts, the big society joke, the increase of student fees which are linked to a privat...
So what is your BIG IDEA ?
Before summer break, Commissioner Neelie Kroes in charge of the Digital Agenda challenged industry and more generally all stakeholders to let her know what their BIG IDEA was to further the European Digital Agenda. Basically, it was up to industry, c...
So how was #pdfeu for you, this year?
Last year, Year One of the Personal Democracy Forum in Europe, I wrote a rave review of this Barcelona-based event. By happenstance, it came for me in a succession of internet/politics events, and, frankly, stood head and shoulders above the rest. So...
Digital Taleban scares, too
Are You Afraid of the Digital Taleban? from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by Maximilian Forte A Medal of Honor for Imperialism: But don’t look at this image! A digital transfer of Taleban contagion will begin downloading if you do. In the latest in militai...
Will we have Internet blocking in ten weeks ? It’s up to you !
Published in EDRi-gram 8.18 Within the next ten weeks, the European Parliament will finish its crucial first reading of the Directive which, if the European Commission has its way, will impose an EU-wide blocking infrastructure - undermining child pr...
Free, EU-funded Open Source sofware
Neelie Kroes, the blogging Commissioner for the Digital Agenda is boasting on her blog "OPEN SOURCE HELPING TO AVOID THE DIGITAL BLACK HOLE", about CASPAR the EU funded open source system.Spiffing stuff no doubt, she points out that,Until now mountai...
not only prevention, your attempt to access the site is “recorded”- arrogant filtering everywhere…
When I was trying to access Daily Motion, it was filtered in all Teacher Guest Houses I stayed during my Eastern Anatolia trip. This aggressive warning appeared… Related posts:the AAA way in Open Access! “Open Access at Duke "Open Acc...
European Parliament Citzalia to go in real life in 2011
There has been quite some noise in the euroblogosphere about the latest European Parliament project, Citzalia. It defines itself as “a role playing game and social networking forum wrapped in a virtual 3D world that captures the essence of the...
Piratpartiet står upp för Sverige och Wikileaks
Som Europaparlamentariker som representerar Sverige nere i Bryssel är jag stolt över att Wikileaks har valt att placera servrar i Sverige. Det är beröm för Sveriges track record när det gäller att försvara yttrandefriheten. Jag är också sto...
Online Censorship as 21st Century Protectionism
How to address growing problems with online censorship.
EFF reviews Verizon and Google’s Net Neutrality Proposal
A Review of Verizon and Google’s Net Neutrality Proposal from EFF.org Updates by cindy Efforts to protect net neutrality that involve government regulation have always faced one fundamental obstacle: the substantial danger that the regulators w...
Euro roundup: Berlusconi, Citzalia, Euroblogging
Citzalia – the virtual ghost European Parliament (really, why spend money on this?) from Jon Worth by Jon Yesterday – thanks to this tweet – I had the dubious honour to be one of the first people to have a look at a draft website for Citz...
Digital Europe: urgent action required
Digital Europe needs urgent action to become one and drive the economy Datanews reports the Lobby group DigitalEurope calls out the clock is ticking to create the digital agenda, the action field of Commissioner Kroes. The Digital agenda, scheduled...
The Wikileaks phenomenon: impact on 21st century statecraft?
Yesterday evening, The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel published analyses of a six-year archive of classified documents from US-led forces in Afghanistan, released to them by the organization Wikileaks. The disclosure of the material h...
Luc Devigne's role in ACTA negotiations
On Saturday, July 17, 2010, I said on twitter, "Apparently Luc Devigne is out as head #acta negotiator for EU." There were a number of sources for this inside the European Union and also among other trade bodies or governments following or participa...
€90M NEW FUNDING FOR FUTURE INTERNET RESEARCH
We are running a great Future Internet Public-Private Partnership over the coming years – and another €90m in funding is available for work in 2011. Please seize this opportunity to help Europe get the most from our internet. The projects...
Sevcan Çelik on the March against Web Censorship
Protest against web censorship Today we walked from Taksim Square to Galatasaray in Istkklal street. Once again, I thought that we are not alone, and it was not a simple crowd. A good team was there from our limited cybersphere but it was not enough.
”Internet är redan trasigt”
Juliagruppens Christopher Kullenberg och Marcin de Kaminsky skriver hos SvD idag under rubriken ”Internet är redan trasigt”: Internet ska vara internet, och då krävs att det inte beskärs. Om Näringsdepartementet och kommande regering...
France.fr: Victim of Its Success No More
The French government site crashed soon after launch and remains down.
Three coverpages that parodizes web censorship (by Selçuk Erdem)
Selçuk Erdem was kind enough to offer these three coverpages he had prepared to be used in campaign against web censorship. Well, I am lazy to translate but google translation will help, I believe… RSF Campaign in defence of online free expres...
Web Censorship in Turkey: An Impasse due to a Minister who takes it personal, Kemalist complicity with the politically conservative judiciary and Indifferent user base
I feel that Mr. Yıldırım takes the web censorship issues in a very personal level in his continuously apologetic speeches. Maybe indifference of Google administrators made him angry and he is also annoyed by netizens who criticize him of web ignor...
Time for selFB-confidence
The FB page of the European Parliament rocks, and we shouldn’t be afraid to say it. As Florent wrote on his post, we’ve the broadest EU community and the biggest Parliament’s presence on Facebook in the world. I’m honoured to...
A chance to speak into the void
The European Commission has launched a consultation ON THE OPEN INTERNETAND NET NEUTRALITY IN EUROPE.Amongst the questions that are being asked are those such as this,Are the commercial arrangements that currently govern the provision of access tothe...
NET NEUTRALITY CONSULTATION NOW OPEN
EU net neutrality consultation now open, until September 30. The debate on net neutrality has grown in intensity over recent months – we will respond with a Commission communication after hearing your perspectives and hosting a summit with the...
Consultation on net neutrality
Today the commission launched a consultation on net neutrality. It covers such issues as whether internet providers should be allowed to adopt certain traffic management practices, prioritising one kind of internet traffic over another, whether such...
Yahoo’s style guide for web content
here is the style guide site here is the news about it: Email… Not “E-mail”: Yahoo Creates Style Guide for Web Content ************** British Columbia’s Capital City Officially Names June 30 Social Media Day *************** ROUNDUP EXCLUSIVE:...
Big Brother a deux têtes
Le parlement Européen a adopté une déclaration “sur la création d’un système d’alerte [...] contre les pédophiles“, qui comporte dans les passages en petit caractère une invitation à stocker les informations relative a...
ACTA Recommendation: Ditch the Crazy Stuff
Here is a short ACTA explanation in “plain English” by Public Knowledge’s Legal Director Harold Feld. Five minutes with Harold Feld – because this stuff is important – and you need to know. Oh, and this is not only a matter...
Lost in cyberspace
Info-war update: how mysterious propaganda sites disappear, mysteriously.
In case you didn't notice...
... but a majority of the members of the European Parliament now officially thinks we are ALL potential pedophiles. I feel insulted! PS.: As soon as the list of MEPs who signed this declaration is public, you will ALL hear from us, be assured!
Turkey steps up the fight against Google
In yet another shameful day in Turkish web history, an Ankara prosecutor got the order to ban 44 more IP numbers Google use for YouTube. News source here. Related posts:Turkish judiciary wages war against Google and What to do? Damn! It looks like ba...
19 July: A major meeting against web censorship
Press release here. Location: Kadir Has Üniversitesi Cibali Kampüsü Date: 19 Haziran 2010 Cumartesi Time: 13:00 – 17:00 An FF discussion here. Turkish Green Party’s anti-web censorship statement here. Internet Sansürüne Karşı Ortak...
Europeans among least trusting Facebook users, study says
Western Europeans are among the world’s most suspicious users of social networking websites but Asians are the most duplicitous, a new study has found. Read more the article by EUobserver.
Net censorship debate with EU Commissioner Malmström
Swedish EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström wants to introduce ”filtering” of the Internet, to block sites that are accused of spreading child pornography. She believes this would be an effective way to reduce sexual child abuse in the wor...
IFPI’s child porn strategy
”Child pornography is great,” the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. ”It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they...
For a cleaner and safer Internet…
Cleanternet.org is a campaign to support European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström in her plans to introduce a website blocking system in Europe.All European countries must be forced to fight for a cleaner and safer Internet. The video is based on a G...
Cecilia Malmström förnekar censuranklagelser
EU-kommissionär Cecilia Malmström (FP) tycker det är vansinnigt att hon anklagas för att införa censur bara för att hon vill blockera sajter på internet. På YouTube finns en film som förklarar hennes vision om ett renare och säkrare interne...
Three-strikes still on the table in ACTA
A document from the latest ACTA negotiation round in New Zealand has been released. Here it is. It is a sanitized version of the draft agreement text, where all information about which positions are held by which countries has been removed. But at le...
Release of ACTA text is good, but many battles remain
The ACTA negotiatiors, who have just concluded their meeting in New Zealand, have issued a press release where they say that they will make the consolidated text coming out of the discussions available on Wednesday 21 April. This is a step in the rig...
European Commission, obsoleted by the lightening pace at which the Internet changes expectations
On 7th January 2009, Tom Steinberg (founder of MySociety in the UK – more about them in a moment) penned a blog entry entitled “Top 5 Internet Priorities for the Next Government (any next Government)“. The whole thing is...
Freedom on the Internet at risk
The freedom on the Internet is increasingly at risk, as the following three recent examples demonstrate: the on-going secret negotiations on the ACTA agreement, the conviction of three Google executives by an Italian prosecutor and the new approach o...
