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Today EDRI issued a statement to express its serious concerns over a new Council of Europe Recommendation on 'promoting freedom of expression and information in the new information and communications environment'.
According to EDRI, the newly adopted instrument promotes opaque "self-regulation" and other soft law instruments driven by private interests and implemented through technical mechanisms. EDRI considers this Recommendation to be damaging and a retrograde step for freedom of expression and freedom of the press in the online world. EDRI is deeply concerned that such instruments will be used to legitimize subtle means of censorship, through privatised censorship and measures to protect against so-called harmful content.
As other related instruments are currently in preparation by the CoE, EDRI calls for NGOs and groups from all over the world to sign up in support of EDRI statement and take further action to help avoid the risk of more damages to freedom of expression and information in the online world.
EDRI statement, call for action, and background information (10.10.2007)
http://www.edri.org/coerec200711
New Council of Europe Recommendation fails to uphold online freedom of
expression - European Digital Rights Statement and Call for
Action(10.10.2007) - PDF format
http://www.edri.org/files/EDRI-coerec200711.pdf