Non scandalizziamoci di Turchia, Cina, Russia. Anche l’Europa si sta muovendo verso il filtro della rete, discutendo della realizzazione di un Firewall europeo, simile a quello adottato da Cina e Australia.
Che una regolamentazione della rete sia necessaria, questa non può avvenire attraverso sistemi di “limitazione” a maglia larga, come quello ipotizzato. L’adozione di questi sistemi, oltre ad essere facilmente eludibile, apre alla possibilità di inserire nella black list eventuali siti scomodi.
European Legislators Consider Net Filter for Europe
European Union plans to “create a single secure cyberspace” have come under fire from civil liberties groups, with many saying that they only serve to highlight how far the bloc still has to go in understanding the modern online world.
In February, at a secret meeting of the Council of the European Union’s Law Enforcement Work Party (LEWP), politicians discussed plans to create a “virtual Schengen border” (the Schengen area is the common passport area within the E.U.) with ISPs required to block “illicit content” from outside the area. The Council of the European Union is the E.U.’s central legislative and decision-making body.
There has been no clarification as to what this “illicit content” might be, merely that there would be an E.U. blacklist. The plan has been compared to China’s heavy-handed methods in controlling access to the Web.
There is also concern that innocent sites are routinely included on blacklists. In Australia, where a similar filtering plan has been proposed, the IT minister Stephen Conroy publically admitted that there was justified cause for concern over mission-creep to include legal content.
