Government seeks internet censorship, plagiarizes Wikipedia

[Albus]

The UK government wants to cut out users rights to access Internet content, applications and services. Some of the information used to justify the change has been cut and pasted from the Wikipedia.

Amendments to the Telecoms Package circulated in Brussels by the UK government, seek to cross out users' rights to access and distribute Internet content and services. And they want to replace it with a ‘principle' that users can be told not only the conditions for access, but also the conditions for the use of applications and services.

The UK government texts have been heavily criticised by the French campaigning group La Quadrature du Net . It is believed that they could have been drawn up by the UK regulator, Ofcom.

The amendments have also appeared in a set of compromise proposals put forward by the Czech Presidency for the Universal Services Directive (Harbour report).

The proposed amendments cut out completely any users' rights to do with content - whether accessing or distributing - which would appear to be in breach of the European Charter of Fundamental rights, Article 10. The Charter states that everyone has the right "to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers." In the digital age, the Internet, and the associated applications and services provided by the World Wide Web, is the means by which people exercise that right.



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[B Whale]

1. what they don't own they seek to

own, what they don't control they seek to control. This is all about power. Government, particularly this government, get paranoid when they haven't got a say, or at least data on something.

They don't understand the concept of freedom, not truly, they have to monitor freedom, so therefore it isn't.