EU: Internet disconnection without check is ok

And things have gone worse apparently…

The Pirate Party, which holds a seat in the European Parliament, proposed legislation that said, essentially, that no one could be disconnected from the Internet without a fair trial. When the proposal when to the European Commission (a group of powerful, unelected bureaucrats who have been heavily lobbied by the entertainment industry), they rewrote it (detail) so that disconnection can take place without trial or other due process.

On the national level, France’s Constitutional Court have approved the latest version of the French 3-strikes rule, HADOPI, which has created a kind of grudging, joke oversight by the courts (before your family’s Internet connection is taken away, a judge gives the order 1-2 minutes’ worth of review, and you aren’t entitled to counsel and the rules of evidence don’t apply — the NYT called it similar to “traffic court”). Under this rule, there is now a national list of French people who are not allowed to be connected to the Internet; providing them with connectivity is a crime.
[article at boingboing]

Its obvious we can wait for censorship to get started, while even MI15 disapproves!

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