Internet censorship and the European Global Online Freedom Act

12.2.2008

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0852/08
by Jules Maaten (ALDE) and Karin Riis-Jørgensen (ALDE)
to the Commission

Follow-up questions to answers (E‑5794/07) given by the European Commission on Internet censorship:

• 1.Is the European Commission willing to develop a European Global Online Freedom Act?
• 2.Is the European Commission willing to invest 20 million euros in technologies able to develop and distribute anti-censorship tools and services which could help Internet users breach electronic firewalls set up by China, Iran and other closed societies?

OJ C 291, 13/11/2008