Telecoms package prob must be sorted or snuffed out in 8 weeks
The European Parliament has until the end of the year to agree a new telecoms reform deal with the EU's Council of Ministers. It will announce Thursday the start date for negotiations which can take no longer than eight weeks. Parliament and Council representatives must agree a compromise by December that must be ratified by …
please NAME those EU Parliament and Council representatives refusing the ratify the directive to our right to assumed innocence until proven guilty....
please supply and direct us all to the EU freedom of information act data as relates to these meetings and related data, and provide a full news report timeline etc.....
Yeah, cause "…save when public security is threatened" will NEVER be abused will it?
Why is that even in there? If someone is SOOO bad that their mere use of the internet threatens public safety, then they should be locked up under the laws that already exist for people who threaten public safety. Simply stopping their internet connection will not prevent someone who is a threat to public safety from being so.
I can see all the ways this will be twisted by my former country to knock anyone off the net. e.g. public safety would be harmed by twittering about something that someone said in parliament that the papers have been banned from reporting...
EPIC EPIC FAIL
No. Not epic fail at all. Normal practice. No government would ever pass a law with this kind of impact without such clauses. Abuse of laws is nothing to do with bad laws but bad policeing, which needs to be looked at in other ways. If the police are working to the letter of the law for thair own ends then you need to look at that.
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