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by Alec Muffett

Brussels wants to impose classification of Internet content

Do you ever get the feeling that the Government tends to miscategorise the Internet as a form of Television?

Via Google Translate:

In an official communication, the European Commission asked the telecoms and content to work very quickly to the implementation of a classification of content published on the Internet, depending on the age of the audience or the nature of content. She asked that the parental control tools take into account this classification, and the actors are taking steps to their adoption by parents is much broader.

via Brussels wants to impose a classification of Internet content.

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One response to “Brussels wants to impose classification of Internet content”

  1. Dave Walker

    I would hope “our Government” (discussing the Brussels / London divide is one for another day) has a more enlightened view – although looking at the huge choice of “on demand” services available from various content providers, much of the Internet is looking increasingly like a video lending library, at least from a bandwidth consumption perspective.

    Still, I’d have thought that if they’re wanting to implement a uniform age classification system across Europe, they’d be looking to harmonise the age of majority and minimum age for marriage (for all sexualities) across Europe, first…

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