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Video Bloggers Under Fire?
Europe ties the gags...

18 October 2006

by Huw Collingbourne

Is the European Union trying to prevent free speech?

There are reports that the European bureaucrats are trying to force video bloggers to licence their broadcasts just like commercial TV companies. In principle this sounds like they are simply trying to prevent the bad guys putting out ‘video nasties’.

Feisty American video blogger, Michelle Malkin, smells a rat. She believes this could be the first step in an International movement to strangle free speech on the Internet. Michelle video blogs on the subject HERE. What d’you reckon…?