If you were to try — really try — to draw up a more cretinous regulation of Internet content than what the EU’s proposing, I’m not sure you could.
Combined with the silly libel laws over the pond, Europe is hell on media law.
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Europe lacks a First Amendment and the respect for limited government, private property and free enterprise that America still enjoys.
This somehow makes me question the validity of his reporting.
What you’ve got to remember is that the european parliament, council of ministers, etc. spend a lot of their time talking hypothetical junk. We are still waiting for them to follow through with their promise to legislate on the curvature of bananas which may legally make it into the supermarkets of europe (what was on offer wasn’t straight enough.) This is just another non-story if you ask me.
I suppose a “comments” section will fulfill the “right of reply” condition.
I’m imagining the hilarity in people defending themselves in bloggers comments.