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TV without frontiers is the name of a European directive which included proposals demanding that national governments check that Internet content conforms with rules of taste and decency. When nobody is watching, politicians in Brussels seem to do their best at stripping away any new freedom that technology and innovative people might create. The idea was to prohibit some content from sites such as YouTube, where people can upload videos.

The freedom of speech is taken for granted by most Europeans today. We should not do so. There are people everywhere trying to reduce the protection of free speech. It’s not just islamists killing journalists and putting embassies to the torch, but it’s also the politically correct left afraid that someone might be offended by what they hear, newspaper owners not willing to stand by their journalists when lobby groups start shouting or — as with this — politicians realising that there are parts of society that are yet outside of their control.

Luckily, some politicians are wiser than others. The Guardian reports that the British government is prepared to make sure that the directive will not include any such regulations concerning the Internet. It is depressing that they seem so alone.

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Thanks to Dick Erixon for the heads up

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