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French Digital Rights Advocates Decry Telecom Package's 'Gradual Response'

By DrewWilson

Says that the current telecoms package would violate basic civil rights in Europe. A little over a week ago, we reported on the French Prime Minister overruling democracy and vetoing provisions in the telecoms package that would stop any form of a "three strike provision" in the European Parliament. Recently, French digital rights advocates from "Squaring the Net" decried the move to modify the telecoms package saying that some of the provisions would force member states in Europe to violate basic civil rights. The paper (PDF) explains in detail what the advocates are looking for. One of the first major demands is to strip out any provisions that would allow any form of a graduated response in response to the demands of, ultimately, major US corporations.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).