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Home » consumerprotection » The Old School Mindset in Europe Opens Door To Censorship

The Old School Mindset in Europe Opens Door To Censorship

18.11.2017 by Nina Trankova

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The Old School Mindset in Europe Opens Door To Censorship

This large topic has been going through ups and downs in 2017 and needs deep diving into many web related disciplines and legal regulations. I’ve been looking forward Lyuben Todev’s review and as he sums up the new law as a “dangerous conversation” my concerns are rising.

“According to the new rules, national consumer protection authorities can order any unspecified third party to block access to websites without requiring judicial authorization”, to quote Julia Reda’s article about website blocking. https://juliareda.eu/2017/11/eu-website-blocking/

It’s a small relief that this time it’s not my country’s deputy who influenced this sad vote “Tragically, the Parliament’s negotiator, MEP Olga Sehnalová from the Czech Social Democrats (S&D group), agreed to a compromise that adopted the Council’s proposal on website blocking.”

Regulations have not ever succeeded to fight hate, harassment and crime. While basic rules are needed to ease and secure the web networks, putting powers in possessing conversations on the web is killing networking. It’s, therefore, the indigenous networks start to gain force. https://twitter.com/hashtag/indigenet17?src=hash

Are we going to ask for permission when networking?

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#Trend2018 #Regulations

Originally shared by Lyuben Todev

New EU Legislation On Consumer Protection In The Web

The EU parliament has voted for a new Regulation on Consumer Protection Cooperation, which allows taking down websites associated with fraudulent activities.

This option has raised serious questions concerning the risk for censorship and the lack of control over the procedure. Now, some of the arguments against this power granted to consumer protection authorities I shall discard outright – the question whether such measure is proportional and why it was introduced, while other remedies were removed from the scope of the regulation.

Firstly, consumer protection is usually about defending lots of small interests against a singular larger interest. This means that the claims of a single consumer a usually insignificant, but a quantity of such claims has a different quality. And only for a large number of claims the consumer protection really works. So when we are talking about large numbers, the most important measure is to stop the violation of the rights of consumers as soon as possible. The compensation for already damaged consumers is not urgent, however sad it might sound. So this measure is rather necessary.

The question is, that I’ve had the chance to discuss, any power can easily be misused and this is true for the power to remove web-sites from the web as well. This power though is really dangerous – because indeed it means possible limitations of free speech and sharing of information. I would like to see the debate about safeguards against abuse of this power for national regulators before making any definitive statements, but for sure the EU begins a dangerous conversation, and even if it is necessary, this measure might bear sour fruits.

#technology #consumerprotection #EU

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/eu-consumer-protection-law
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Comments

  1. جمال علي says

    18.11.2017 at 9:47 AM

    هلا

  2. Lyuben Todev says

    18.11.2017 at 11:46 PM

    Nina Trankova, great opinion. Though, considering my line of work, I can’t agree with everything you say. Regulations can work to deal with hate and deceit, and they re the only actual border that can define crime. However, regulations alone work slowly – therefore they need to be backed by the majority of society.

    The EU has a good concept of consumer protection – which has actually resulted in a safer world for all of us. But we have not reached the end of that particular road and along it there will be mistakes. Website blocking might turn to be exactly one of them.

  3. Nina Trankova says

    19.11.2017 at 12:40 AM

    Lyuben Todev I can understand your point when touching on regulations and still remain on my own opinion on this one. I mean a more philosophical approach proven regulations haven’t changed human nature.

    There have been other public discussions going on this week about online experience being real life. For this, I was embarrassed to read about this vote ignoring legal authorisation for website blocking. EU has all good concept that I deeply respect, so a discrepancy becomes more obvious in a way. What are the possible scenarios?

  4. Lyuben Todev says

    19.11.2017 at 6:23 PM

    Nina Trankova, In terms of possible scenarios, I believe that we shall see some safeguards installed against abuse of this power of national consumer protection authorities. What those safeguards will be – I’d wager on court control over their decisions. As an alternative, some countries might create special authorities to review complaints against website blocking.

  5. Nina Trankova says

    19.11.2017 at 9:57 PM

    Lyuben Todev I have such a sad association with examples of “special” authorities governments did create historically on other political related occasions! I do hope EU keeps up with court control if all this has to come to real life. Thank you for making time to comment for clarity on my re-shared post! Appreciate! have a nice week:)

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  8. Scott Juarez says

    22.11.2017 at 11:09 AM

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