He says all the right things. So either he's lying, or he's about to get whacked. Nobody that good ever makes it to positions of power in government.
EU's super-commish for tech: Geo-blocks on cat vids, music – NOT FAIR
Andrus Ansip, the new EU super-commissioner for all things digital, says he will work to completely abolish geo-blocking of media in Europe – and urged telcos to get on with pushing out high-speed mobile broadband. What started out as a relatively boring and predictable hearing before the European Parliament on Monday took a …
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Tuesday 7th October 2014 07:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
The great things about Andrus
was that he not only understood the questions (some of which possibly came by twitter) but that he was able to give reasonable, in fact BOLD answers. He seemed pro-privacy, which obviously won't go down to well with you Cheltenhamshire based people. Will he get dealt with in a soft or hard manner?
Soft: More on Andrus's interview by the MEPs at europeanvoice.com
Hard: More on the perfect murder of a foreign politician by - well, I wonder who could have done that? was his meta-data collated in the UK??
ps. it does seem that the new Commission will be voted-in, but only after some re-organisation of the portfolios, then it's over to events...
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Tuesday 7th October 2014 07:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Pot - kettle
It's always amusing to watch politicians when it comes to implementing policies in their own bureaucracy that they lambast others for not doing. Putting every service online is apparently cheap, quick and easy when it's somebody else that's squealing about complexity or cost; when it's the European Commission there's no timetable, and doubtless never will be.
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Wednesday 8th October 2014 09:02 GMT Matt 21
Re: Pot - kettle
...or perhaps he's just a sensible chap who realises you can't just go into a new job and announce cuts with a timetable before you've even had the chance to look at the detail of what they do.
It seems fair enough to propose some ideas but I'm prepared to give him six months to come up with more details.
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Tuesday 7th October 2014 09:25 GMT Dave Bell
Re: the right to be forgotten has to stay as an exception.
Being forgotten implies that you have to be remembered first, and the potential for abuse—people using the right to hide evidence of wrong-doing—is an argument for some sort of balancing check. We know that laws such as the American DMCA, and particularly its notice system, are routinely abused and misapplied.
A lot of the controversy, around the world, comes from things being done without any limit. Doing something as an exception to the norm implies there are limits. Then all you have to do is make sure they are applied. Search warrants, anyone?
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Wednesday 8th October 2014 05:25 GMT Purple-Stater
I like this fella
I hope this goes through. It annoys me to no end when I go to check out some UK music, that's not offered for sale in North America, and it's blocked. If they don't want to make the music available for me to purchase, why do they care if I watch/listen to it on YouTube?!?
It's annoying enough to jump through hoops with eBay & Amazon UK to import their product, but now I have to do their sales work for them too!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
