EU Funds Filters

ZDNet has a story about the European Union spending millions on promoting Internet censoring software.

Re:Only Gov't Officals Know What is Right

[toivoti]

Hmm, basically of the same opinion. How DO you vote out these people and who are "they" anyway? As long as you can choose to use or not to use these filters, what the fuck!

Re:Not promoting, developing.

[Mitch61]

Yes, would be very good indeed. But if YOU decide what to filter, what's the point really of filtering? Or do you think your kids won't catch your password and change the settings?

Only Gov't Officals Know What is Right

[beefjerky_com]

Yeah, that's it. Regular people can't be trusted with their own minds. Who knows what they might do if Big Brother didn't put its politically correct filters on line. More crap from the morality-imposers. When will the people finally have enough of this crap and vote those bastards out?

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[George WIPO Bush]

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Apologies to the Penis Bird Guy. Well, maybe not.

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[George WIPO Bush]

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Re:Only Gov't Officals Know What is Right

[George WIPO Bush]

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Not promoting, developing.

[Kris_J]

The story says "...a new project aimed at creating Internet filtering technology tailored for..." (emphasis added). There are many laws through Europe that aim to respect estabished culture -- often related to wars between neighbours that are now all part of the EU. This intitiative is an attempt to find/create a technical solution to existing laws. It is not an advertising campain.

This could be a good thing... Perhaps if they develop a comprensive client-side filtering system with a modular structure such that people can choose which filter rule sets they want to install a, say, German living in France could use the "German Pack" we might finally get away from the people programming the filter mechanisms also being the ones that decide what to filter.

Or this project could prove it's impossible and we might finally put the whole filter debate to rest.