Copyright Lobbyists Might Be Tied Up to Israel’s Internet Censorship law July 18, 2009
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Hamakor, ITU, open source, Uncategorized.Tags: censorship, copyright, internet censorship, Israel, law, no2bio, pirate
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About half a year ago, a law for internet censorship passed the first stage in our parliament, on its way to become in effect. The way it was done is disguising the law as a way to protect against child pornography.
There was quite a lot of opposition and finally at the beginning of this week, the law proposal was dropped. This of course makes quite us happy.
However, this week I stumbled on a Google Talk of Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. He said, and I quote (the video skips to the quote):
“I’ll give you an anecdote of a copyright seminar. The Danish head honcho came and said: You know, the politicians don’t understand file sharing. So what we need to do is to filter the internet. But since politicians don’t understand what that means, we should associate it with child pornography. Because politicians understand child pornography.“
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