The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has published a 270 page cookbook with recipes on how to preserve the freedom of the Net. The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook aims to help users and governments fight "bad content", for example hate speech, without jeopardising freedom.

According to Haraszti "Regulatory activism can lead to suppression of freedom regardless of whether this censorship was intended or came as a consequence of ignorance. I intend to warn about the dangers over the Internet just as I do in the case of 'classic' censorship in the print press or the broadcast media."

The book is a result of major findings of the Second Internet Conference which was organized by the OSCE Media Representative in August 2004 in Amsterdam. The outcomes will be evaluated during the Third Amsterdam Internet Conference in 2005.

Media Freedom Internet Cookbook (16.12.2004)
http://www.osce.org/documents/rfm/2004/12/3989_en.pdf