by Joe McNamee => http://www.edri.org/about/sponsoring
The Civil Liberties Committee of the Parliament this evening, in an “orientation vote” that will set up the negotiations with the Council adopted a text which:
- rejects mandatory EU-wide blocking
- removes all references to “self-regulation”
- removes all references to “non-legislative measures”
What we did not get is a specific obligation on Member States to require a prior judicial ruling before blocking sites nor a ban on countries that currently block. Both of these, in my view, were wholly impossible, but they are still a “stain” on this being a full success. But from absurdly unrealistic to some (intermediate!) success is quite a journey.
The texts adopted are below.
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