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This shows one more reason why we need a united Europe: taken one at a time, European countries are too little to be able to raise their voices.

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I agree, for some things it's better to be centralized, but not too centralized. I wouldn't want it to make it simpler for them to convince the "leaders" of EU to adopt a law for the whole EU. The balance in EU needs to be weighted very carefully between centralization and decentralization, and centralization should have the minimum necessary power for the actual good of the Union. Too bad that knowing politicians, they always get carried away and think more centralization = always better.

I agree with you that many things shouldn't be centralized. But a matter like this (IP protection/freedom) looks to me like one of the things that should definitely be decided at a European level, not last because this would help a lot European startups with a more homogeneous market ;)

I also think things like this should be blown up by countries impacted in their media and the UN. This will help highlight dangerous and over-reaching US foreign policy and potentially get US citizens and the UN involved which can then apply pressure on US officials to refrain from these kind of measures.

It is almost twilight-zonish to see the US government in favor of Internet censorship when speeches against it like this exist: http://secretaryclinton.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/secretary-o....

Why isn't the US media all over things like this? So much for being the vanguards of freedom...

This also shows why US states need to secede from the union.

Yeah, that worked well last time.

It came pretty close actually. If the south would have had better leadership the US would be at least two countries now.

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