EU Ban on RU War Propaganda Misfires: Blocks Social Media Giants and Pirate IPTV

torrentfreak.com

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> the Dutch ISP trade association compiled a consolidated blocklist. This list is based on input from regulators in other countries and features over 700 blocking targets. It includes several unexpected blocklist entries, such as the social media networks Weibo and ShareChat, pirate IPTV services, and other seemingly unrelated domain names.

Of course Weibo, ShareChat and pirate IPTV services were included by "mistake", with no input from any lobby organization.

Also what is "the Dutch ISP trade association" ? An EU body ? Can I also make a "trade association", "Cavaglieri Media für alle" and make lists with sites which shall be blocked ( based, of course, on the wishes of the highest bidder) ?

https://www.rfcafe.com/references/popular-electronics/russia...

Bizzare how the tables have turned.

This just shows that censorship, once started, always runs out of control.

Expect more

To be fair, this is more a result of the EU not being specific about their censorship so the providers have started to scramble to make their own lists without any oversight (which the article indeed identifies as a big problem).

If we're going to do censorship, have a clear process on it under democratic control with challenge processes etc.

At least these aren't actual blocks anyway. It's just cosmetic, just change the DNS and voilà.

> If we're going to do censorship, have a clear process on it under democratic control with challenge processes etc.

"Sir, today we are going to rape you, in a democratic manner, of course, and ... you can challenge the process". Regards, The EC

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