The EU might be set to open the can of worms which is internet censorship and demand that nation states block some pornography sites.
Members of the European Parliament Monday prepared a position statement on the idea which has sent digital rights groups ringing their alarm bells with the gusto of Quasimodo after he has snorted too much charlie.
The Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee has examined a report that looks at the viability of blocking websites that distribute child porn. Their opinion will put to a vote by the whole Parliament at the beginning of February.
While the report, prepared by Italian Member of Parliament Roberta Angelilli, proposes that blocking should be left up to member nations, digital rights groups are concerned that some parliamentarians will propose mandatory blocking. Both the European Commission and Council like the idea.
So far the text adopted by the European Council states that member states should take the "appropriate measures to remove web pages containing or disseminating child pornography", including "non-legislative measures."
According to Techworld the text says that the blocking of access shall be "subject to adequate safeguards", in particular to ensure that the "blocking is limited to what is necessary". Users need to be informed of the reasons for the blocking and that content providers, as far as possible, are informed of the possibility of challenging it.
However the European Digital Rights (EDRi) said that blocking warns suspected criminals that have been spotted. As the outfit's Joe McNamee pointed out if you are accused of running a website containing images of gross violations of children, it is unlikely that you are going to respond to a polite notice that you wish to complain.
The way the law is being drafted the priority is not to identify the children, not to investigate the criminals, but to avoid inadvertent public access, even though blocking has never been shown to have an impact on this.
Countries that introduce web-blocking to target child abuse today, will block to protect gambling monopolies tomorrow and politically unwelcome websites next. This is what happened in France, McNamee pointed out.
Once morality becomes an issue of control and abandonment, the plot is lost. Due to the fact that control is merely latent abandonment, once this platform of disagreement is mounted upon, only The Bookie, oka The Cyclical, benefits. The Bookie is indiffferent to who is control and who is abandonment, It is only interested in having the disagreement. This is because when a human reacts, he loses his power/reality and reality is the difference between being sane and being insane.
The true solution to humanity’s problems is for the individual to realise is own reality first and when enough of the population is so self-empowered, so too will the population, oka the fence-sitting blankness, change. A very airy-fairy, goody-2-shoes and ongoing but historical proposition with the exception of one very important difference, it is now possible to be permanently constructive and not to be permanently destructive whilst remembering that destruction is a myth and only exists when contruction is lacking. How could there be a resolution to moral issues when Morality is not at the fore?
That is the insanity of the human ego - to assume that just because it is able to copulate, rationalise and corrupt, that all is within reach/control & command whilst not forgetting when control is basically insanity, that then is abandonment. To assume that just because one is able to peer into the sub-atomic and launch into space and so forth, that Reality is, somehow, within grasp. Like its sibling the human emotion, however, should The Unseen Reality exists, Its is beyond control and abandonment. Beyond as in never being able to. Should this claim be real, that then is the reality. To become permanently constructive, Reality has to be realised and not be demanded upon - to be owned.
Ownership issues is the MO of Humanity, oka being Permanently Destructive, and to own is to be owned at that very same moment, the favourite pastime of The Bookie. As in endlessly circulating/disagreeing/gambling about “Children’s Welfare”, in all the forms and aspects The Bookie is able to project and inject into the frailty which is Humanity. And look at how responsible hypocrites are able to make their saviours-worshippers react to “Rights Issues” - so long as one’s Fame, Fortune & Immortality is able to ratchet up another notch, why that’s humanity for you. The is no such thing as Complexity if it is not Simplicity too - at the very same moment - timing being the reality and not time.