{"id":2498,"date":"2016-05-26T06:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T13:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2021-08-05T09:02:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T16:02:06","slug":"european-parliament-prepares-internet-censorship-terror-justification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/european-parliament-prepares-internet-censorship-terror-justification\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament prepares for actual Internet Censorship using &#8220;Terrorism&#8221; as justification buzzword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Under the pretext of fighting terrorism, groups in the European Parliament wants to give police the power to censor the Internet and even individual accounts with social media providers at will. This is not just a stark attempt to justify sharp reductions in liberty with the buzzword \u201cterrorism\u201d, it also flies in the face of the most fundamental anti-censorship principles. The Directive (sort of a European Federal Law) isn\u2019t completed yet, but is starting to take shape, and it\u2019s looking horrifying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HAX in Brussels sounds the <a href=\"https:\/\/hax.5july.org\/2016\/05\/24\/eus-epp-group-calls-for-internet-censorship\/\">big alarm bell<\/a> as the biggest power group in the European Parliament, the European People\u2019s Party, has laid out its guidelines for what they want to see in this Terrorism Directive, and it\u2019s horrifying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis would mean limiting the internet reach that ISIS and other extremist groups have on our social media networks. To ban them completely would be impossible as it is difficult enough to figure out who is an extremist recruiter and who isn\u2019t on Facebook and Twitter, but we can certainly limit and delete their Facebook pages and bar their accounts. (\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>It has been agreed that Europol is to obtain greater powers to deal with the tackling of the terrorist threat online. New specialist units, monitored by an European Data Protection Supervisor and a Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group, will be set up that will be able to contact social network providers (Facebook, Twitter etc.) directly to ask that pages and accounts run by ISIS are shut down as fast as possible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s noteworthy here that not just the ordinary targets of censorship are mentioned, but there\u2019s also discussion of direct police control over social network providers, even when located outside the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, the Internet interprets censorship as damage to the network and routes around it. As we saw in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/cookie-law-politicians-good-intentions-create-security-nightmare\/\">case of the Cookie Law<\/a>, utter incompetence coupled with good intentions isn\u2019t just harmless when regulating the Internet, it\u2019s actually <em>dangerous<\/em>. There will always be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Public_DNS\">trivial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_private_network\">ways<\/a> to escape mandated censorship, and the ones targeted \u2013 the \u201cterrorists\u201d \u2013 already know about all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, this idea of censorship falls flat in its face immediately in that it\u2019s utterly ineffective, and so, shouldn\u2019t be allowed proceed if anybody with brains had looked at it with a sound mind. But these are analog lawmakers we\u2019re talking about. Offline-borns. People who get their emails printed for them by their secretaries, and think they therefore understand the net. (Yes, really.)<\/p>\n<p>Joe McNamee of the European Digital Rights Initiative also sounds the big alarm bell in the piece <a href=\"https:\/\/edri.org\/our-work\/enditorial-next-year-youll-complain-about-the-terrorism-directive\/\">Next year you\u2019ll complain about the Terrorism Directive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy still remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the pretext of fighting terrorism, groups in the European Parliament wants to give police the power to censor the Internet and even individual accounts with social media providers at will. 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