European Union Chief wants power to remove undesirable websites from internet

[Origanalist]

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Gilles de Kerchove, the European Union's counter-terrorism coordinator, has publicly stated that he wishes for the European super-state to be able to remove not just websites that promote illegal content, but also those which he calls "undesirable."

The statement from de Kerchove, who was recently speaking on the topic of how to curtail the threat of terrorist activity online, has alerted freedom of speech campaigners and those concerned with net neutrality to the overbearing nature of the European Union (EU), which has for decades whittled powers away from national governments across Europe.

Now it seems the EU wants the power to block websites it arbitrarily decides are "undesirable." Setting out the action being taken by the EU, de Kerchove said, “The Commissioner for Home Affairs will set up a forum to discuss with the big players – Google, Facebook, Twitter – how we can improve the way one removes from the internet the illegal and, if not illegal, undesirable websites.”

The UK-based freedom of speech campaigners of Big Brother Watch wrote earlier this week:

Freedom of speech, and of the press, are essential parts of a free and democratic society. It should not be in the gift of politicians to decide what we read or who can write it and absolutely not on the basis of what some may consider undesirable. If content is to be blocked, it should be a decision taken by a court of law and only when a clear criminal test has been met establishing the content is illegal.

continued..http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/02/04/European-Union-Chief-wants-power-to-remove-undesirable-websites-from-internet

[Anti Federalist]

The UK-based freedom of speech campaigners of Big Brother Watch wrote earlier this week:

Freedom of speech, and of the press, are essential parts of a free and democratic society. It should not be in the gift of politicians to decide what we read or who can write it and absolutely not on the basis of what some may consider undesirable. If content is to be blocked, it should be a decision taken by a court of law and only when a clear criminal test has been met establishing the content is illegal.

Wow, out come the big guns.

That'll put a stop to them, mate.

[Brian4Liberty]

European Union Chief wants power to remove undesirable websites from internet

Of course he does.

[Occam's Banana]

WARNING: The following statements pose a serious and significant risk of irony poisoning ...


Gilles de Kerchove, the European Union's counter-terrorism coordinator, has publicly stated that he wishes for the European super-state to be able to remove not just websites that promote illegal content, but also those which he calls "undesirable."

The statement from de Kerchove, who was recently speaking on the topic of how to curtail the threat of terrorist activity online, [...]

[Origanalist]

WARNING: The following statements pose a serious and significant risk of irony poisoning ...

dou•ble•think ('d&-b&l-"thi[ng]k), noun, Date: 1949 : a simultaneous belief in two contradictory ideas.

Here is how Winston Smith described doublethink in the novel:

"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself.

That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.'

[Origanalist]

Wow, out come the big guns.

That'll put a stop to them, mate.

I'm sure they will be first on the list.

[tod evans]

Wow, out come the big guns.

That'll put a stop to them, mate.

Ya' think they'll write pointed notes?

Or maybe wave some signs around in the appropriate area?

Oh wait...

[eduardo89]

Poor Danke, I'm sure most of the websites he frequents are 'undesirable,' even to Europeans.

[CPUd]

LOL @ thinking it is even possible to remove something from the internet.