Evil Internet, yet again

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

EU mulls Internet clampdown to combat 'terrorism'  
 
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071001154843.cjbfw3h8
<http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071001154843.cjbfw3h8&show_article=
1> &show_article=1
 
European Union interior ministers debated Monday proposals to sanction or
shut down Internet sites spreading "terrorist propaganda" and bomb-making
instructions. 

EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini told reporters that he had urged the
ministers, during informal talks in Lisbon
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Portugal
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"to make punishable activities of misuse of the Internet." 


"My intention of course is not to limit freedom
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expression," he said. 


"My intention is ... to introduce sanctions against those who disseminate
terrorist propaganda or instruct on websites how to make a bomb. This has
nothing to do with freedom of expression. 


"If a given website is found instructing people to make a bomb, the only
possible result is to disconnect, or to close such a website," he said. 


The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a report this month that
radical Muslims and other extremists had mastered the use of the Internet as
a tool for propaganda, organizing and education. 


It said websites were being used to stir young
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Muslims in the West and Middle
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to violence and that they amount to a "virtual university of terror,"
promoting the creation of "terror cells". 


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