Following pressure from various groups, the European Union head office insisted Thursday that it had no plans to regulate the Internet as it launches new broadcasting rules later this year. “I have no intention to ‘regulate the Internet,'” EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding told a broadcasting conference in UK. However, she said EU had the duty to protect shared European values…She said there was a broad consensus that child protection and hate speech rules should also apply to “nonlinear” services, such as pay-TV or Internet broadcasts.
Meanwhile in addition of BBC head and bSkyB head opposing the regulatory moves, AOL and Yahoo’s European arms have spoken out. AOL Europe Services said it believed the Internet industry has already responded to customer demand by creating common standards…Yahoo! Europe said the online environment was no Wild West as companies have worked together with national governments to tackle problems such as child pr*n.
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