Penguinisto opened this issue on Mar 28, 2003 ยท 39 posts
Orio posted Fri, 28 March 2003 at 5:05 PM
Cyhiraeth, what you report makes no sense for several reasons: 1. there can not be any such thing as an "European law" regarding freedom of expression, because Europe is only a commercial union. There are Union rules and regulations for sure, mostly regarding commercial issues, but no "laws" on such matters whatsoever. This kind of thing would pertain to single countries' Parliaments. 2. The law you mention could never exist anyway, because nobody and no country would ever have the right to censor anything that belongs to another country. 3. I live in Europe, am an informed person, and I never heard of such a stupid thing, surely it wasn't discussed here in Italy. And should anyone suggest it, our Parliament would surely reject it, and even if our Parliament did, the Constitutional Court would, because such a law would violate the Italian Constitution. 4. all countries in the EU highly value the freedom of speech and the expression of the different opinions, so I feel safe enough to say that such a censorship proposal does not really belong to any of the other EU countries either. What you report, really sounds like bad xenophobic propaganda.