Restricting the freedom of the Internet

This Labour government's desire for controlling every thought or deed of the poor citizens of the UK moves on apace. According to Anna Raccoon

"The UK is collaborating with the German, Dutch and Czech governments on a secret research project on how to effectively block the distribution of material online.

Officials across Europe are concerned about websites that are hosted outside the EU and so cannot be taken down from the Internet. It’s thought governments will explore technical measures such as filtering technologies, as well as international cooperation on take-down notices issued to ISPs.

The European Commission has agreed to fund a project, alluded to in the Home Office’s recently published counter-terror strategy, CONTEST 2, as “a significant EU project with Commission support”. The European Commission refused to say how much funding it had awarded. “The details of the awarded grant are still subject to an agreement in writing which implies further scrutiny of the budget estimate submitted by Germany and its project partners,” a spokeswoman said."

Of course the EU and UK government's will sell the idea as part of the war against extremism, especially Islamic terrorism, and against organised crime. In reality the measure will really be aimed at preventing the dissemination of free thought by bloggers who do not toe the pro-EU, pro-New World Order, line. The likes of Guido Fawkes, Devils Kitchen and myself may have little time left to blog in freedom.