I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “The European Parliament just passed a proposal to treat world wide web censorship as a trade barrier, in particular the ‘Great Firewall of China.’ If passed by the European Council, the issue would be raised in trade negotiations and could lead to economic sanctions and trade restrictions for those countries unwilling to remove oppressive Net censorship.” We’ve discussed some of the ways in which the EU, and its member countries, engage in their own brand of censorship.
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