EU secretly plans Internet censorship again

[Remus]

With proposed laws like ACTA, that relied on the excuse of cracking down on pirates, being shot down, what's a government to do? Why, rely on the ever popular "protection from terrorism" excuse of course! Oh, and cracking down on CP.

http://www.friatider.se/leaked-document-shows-how-eu-secretly-undermines-freedom-of-speech

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...-no-obscure-languages-because-terrorism.shtml

There are currently two parallel tax-funded consultation groups in the EU, where bureaucrats and private equipment vendors work together to bring about new legislation drafts for parliaments and new surveillance guidelines for ISP

Here are just some of the commission-funded consultation groups objectives:
• Anonymous use of Internet should be prohibited.
• Police should be empowered to shut down websites without following the current rules.
• Lists of sites should be circulated for blocking on the ISP level.
• System for blocking of content should be introduced in all social networking sites.
• Original uploading of material to the the network should be filtered.
• The authorities should be empowered to extinguish Internet domain names and prohibit the registration of domain names containing ”terrorist” wording.
• Linking to what may prove to be a ”terrorist content” should be illegal.
• Operators are responsible for ensuring that their networks are not used for ”terrorism.”
• Laws that protect employees from employer eavesdropping shall be removed.
• Operators that are monitoring traffic, but fail to report all ”terrorism” are to be punished.
• Operators that are helpful in regards of Clean IT’s ambitions should be given precedence in public procurement.
• Governments should establish education centres for forum moderators.
• Governments should build up networks of informers and train special internet policemen in the art of using youthful language.
• Governments should implement ”counter-narrative” projects.
• Governments should subsidize NGOs working against radicalizing messages online.
- and much more.

Clean IT avoids defining the word ”terrorism”. This term bobs around the document together with terms like ”hate speech” and even ”cursing”.