Bruce
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>Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 14:30:27 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Declan B. McCullagh <declan+@CMU.EDU>
>To: Fight Censorship Mailing List <fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>Subject: European Commission "looking actively" at net-regulation
>
>ÆI just updated my international net-censorship page, which is now at
><http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/international/>. This "informal meeting"
>by the EC comes just in time for the G-7 summit next month... --DeclanÅ
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>BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, 1996 MAY 3 (NB) -- The European Commission (EC) has
>confirmed it is now looking actively at methods by which its official
>agencies can police the Internet.
>
>Speaking earlier this week in Italy, where an informal IT (information
>technology) meeting took place between various EC agencies, Agostino
>Gambino, the Italian Minister for Telecommunications, told journalists
>that the main focus of the regulatory changes will be to protect the
>interests of children, and outlaw criminal activity on the Internet.
>
>Gambino said that an informal meeting between himself and his EC
>member country counterparts in Bologna, Italy, had been successful,
>and had established a framework for a full report from the EC. Once
>the report was prepared, he said, a decision on how best to proceed
>would be taken by Brussels.
>
>"Many member states perceive the need now for some discipline, some
>kind of regulatory framework, codes of ethics," he told journalists,
>adding the French government has proposed that EC member states draw
>up a draft global convention on ethics, legislation and the Internet.
>
>Æ...Å
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>According to EC officials, the first task of the Consultative
>Commission on Racism and Xenophobia (CRAX), as it is called, will be
>to investigate and, using legal means, stamp out the current wave of
>racism on the Internet.
>
>Æ...Å
Bruce
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