Reshared post from Jeff Jarvis

It is extremely impor­tant for our soci­ety to stand in for free­dom of speech and infor­ma­tion and to not give in to purely com­mer­cial dri­ven motives.

There must not be any cen­sor­ship of any Inter­net com­mu­ni­ca­tions what­so­ever! There are suf­fi­cient laws in place in almost any coun­try in the world to enforce pub­lish­ers’ rights. No need for any­thing else.

What we really need are entre­pre­neurs with new ideas and busi­ness mod­els to adapt to the evolv­ing mar­kets. Let go of old-fashioned busi­ness mod­els. Lis­ten to the consumer!

Jeff Jarvis orig­i­nally shared this post:

EU Court of Jus­tice strikes down an anti-piracy law that would have required ISPs to fil­ter all con­tent, argu­ing that intel­lec­tual prop­erty rights are not absolute and must be bal­anced against other rights, includ­ing a busi­ness’ abil­ity to oper­ate and the pro­tec­tion of users’ per­sonal data and “their free­dom to receive or impart infor­ma­tion” (aka free­dom of speech).
The law “could poten­tially under­mine free­dom of infor­ma­tion since that sys­tem might not dis­tin­guish ade­quately between unlaw­ful con­tent and law­ful con­tent, with the result that its intro­duc­tion could lead to the block­ing of law­ful com­mu­ni­ca­tions.”
A vic­tory for freedom.

Text of rul­ing at link below:

RECENT CASE-LAW — Results

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