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Yes, the media report from our beloved Estonian MEP Marianne Mikko that suggested impairing freedom of speech in order to clarify the motives of bloggers has been revised to only include this line in regards to blogs:
“24. Encourages an open discussion on all issues relating to the status of weblogs.”
Seems like the European union is more sensible than our own government when it comes to democracy after all…
Tags: eu, marianne mikko, media report
On my way home from Sävsjö now, this time in 2nd class :/ But i got some networking and that’s always something 
Got an e-mail from the Swedish socialdemocrats in the EU-parliament with good news on the Telecoms package, but it was kind of fuzzy. Turned to HAX‘s blog (Swedish) and during the vote on the Telecoms Package today some good things happened:
* The frech parlamentarian Toubon withdrew his amendment (132) which was going to make things even worse!
* Amendment 138 was accepted, making it impossible to disconnect european citizens from the internet without a fair trial!
* Amendment 166 was accepted (!!!!!!) which means no internet filtering in the european union!
The last one passed with 346 votes against 312. Frightening how many MEPs are for filtering of the internet. Really chilling.
But as HAX notes, no champagne yet. The package needs further analysis until we can be sure that no other strange/bad things are included.
The package also contained some good and market-liberal (good) things such as
* Shorter subscription times on cellular, broadband and other communication services.
* Shorter times for switching between providers (more competitive market) for these services.
* The right to be notified when a breach exposing personal or economical details has been detected.
All-in-all it seems like a good day in the European Union, but I’ll get back with more info if there’s an ugly frog somewhere.
Tomorrow it’s time for the handling of Marianne Mikko’s “Media-report”. This has been fixed up a bit now, so if it’s OK’d it will not mean that all bloggers and internet publicists need to be registered. Anonymous blogging is still OK in other words.
Cheers,
Tags: eu, media report, telecoms package, telekompaketet
In my fight to keep up on what is being written about the integrity and freedom impairing EU-regulations and laws, I seem to have mixed up some crucial facts.
When reading HAX’s blog I’ve mixed the news about the Telecoms Package and Marianne Mikko’s media-report which suggests registration of bloggers and their motives (impairing free speech etc. etc.).
So, in regards to my last post, the status of our core issues are the following…
M.M.’s media report which will ban anonymous blogging: This is what EPP-ED will vote No to. Still might need some pushing on the Green, ALDE and InDem groups!
Telecoms Package: Still needs a lot of action from Europe’s population in order to make all of our MEPs realise that it is a bad idea to engage in arbitrary, commercially controlled, punishing of citizens by internet disconnection and performing filtering and control over information that really just wants to be free.
Henrik Alexandersson writes on his blog (in regards to EU Telecom/Media-Report/FRA surveillance etc.):
“Skall vi lyckas stoppa galenskaperna, då måste vi veta vad vi talar om..”
English:
“If we are going to make this madness, then we must know what we are speaking about”
And I could agree more. Facts set straight now!
Previous post will not be edited to “correctness”. What is published is published and should stay that way, but I might add in overstrikes with a new reference in some.
I seriously need to stop posting when I almost can’t hold my eyes open.. sigh…
Tags: correction, incorrect, marianne mikko, media report, telecom
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