in solidarity,
mike
>
>Sweden Outlaws Discussion Archives?
>
>
>In my "Democracy is Online" article
><http://www.e-democracy.org/do/article.html> I concluded with:
>
> Perhaps the most democratizing aspect of the Internet is the
> ability for people to organize and communicate in groups.
> It is within the context of electronic free assembly and
> association that citizens will gain new opportunities for
> participation and a voice in politics, governance, and
> society."
>
>Today I was attempting to access an e-mail list archive for the
>OldNorseNet <http://www.hum.gu.se/arkiv/> and ran into this:
>
> Our discussion lists archive
>
> 1998-10-24.
> Due to a new swedish law (harmonizing to the EU directives)
> we are no longer allowed to publish archives of our
> discussion lists. This will be a severe obstacle for the
> democracy and the free debate.
>
> Back to Faculty of Arts homepage
>
>While I need to gather more information, the fact that open, public
>discussions among people online are illegal to archive, perhaps even
>to have is quite startling. Restrictions on electronic assembly and
>association, including the ability of forum hosts to offer the value
>of resulting discussions in an archive, is an even more severe
>restraint than free speech restrictions on far right expression we
>see in many European countries.
>
>Below are a number of URLs and some text that I ran into. "Jag talar
>inte Svenska" and I couldn't find a Babelfish for Swedish to English
>on the net, so if our Swedish subscribers could update us on this
>story that would be much appreciated.
>
>
>Steven Clift
>Democracies Online
>P.S. I'll likely be in Stockholm for a few days between Jan 11 - 15.
>I'd like to meet with those involved on both sides of this issue to
>learn more.
>
>
>>From <http://www.bitos.org/kampanj/veta_mer.html> I found
>amazing stuff from: http://www.pul.nu/
>
>
>Directly from: http://www.pul.nu/sid2eng.html
>
>Swedish law limits freedom of speech on the internet The 24th of
>October Sweden got a new law on personal data, "PUL", which is based on
>EU legislation. The law makes it illegal to give names public on the
>net, without the mentioned persons "unmistakable consent". The new
>legislation threatens freedom of speech.
>
>The law makes it illegal to critique people on trade union or other
>organisations home- and chatpages. The punishment: Up to two years in
>prison.
>
>The law makes an exception for "journalistic purposes", but not for
>information purposes. Similar legislation is alreday, or will be,
>adopted in other EU-countries. The legislation is based on the EU data
>directive.
>
>This site analyses the law and it's consequences for freedom of speech
>on the net. But also how it will effect swedish trade unions and
>organisations with homepages on the net.
>
>It also gives an example on how Swedish communities already are
>affected by the recent legislation. The Community Gällivare in the
>arctic part of Sweden has had a long fight with the Swedish Data
>inspection on the right to publish protocols from municipal board
>meetings on the net. The problem: The protocols contain names of
>people.
>
>CONTENT
>
>The Gällivare case and the fight about names on the internet
>
>ENGLISH LINKS
>
>European Commission Legal Advisory Board: Regulation of internet
>content
>
>European Union about illegal and harmful content on the Internet
>
>Illustration: Martin Odell c
>
>"Time to bring back anonymity"
>
>The Quote "Time to bring back anonymity" comes from Ms Anitha
>Bondestam, general director of the Swedish data inspection. In a
>English brochure from 1995 she argues for more anonymity - and
>welcomes the EU data directive on which the new Swedish legislation is
>built.
>
> ______________________
>
>About the illustrator
>
>Martin Odell is a Swedish illustrator who works for Magazines such
>as "Journalisten", given out by the Swedish union of Journalists and
>Statstjänstemannen, given out by the union of public employees
>
>About the site
>
>This page is a part of the site "Personuppgiftslagen och
>yttrandefriheten", produced in June 1998 by Christoph Andersson and
>Susanne Bertman as a final project for the course "Global electronic
>journalism", given at JMK, Stockholm university
>http://www.jmk.su.se/global/ global98/private/christop/
>finalpro/pul.htm
>
>A updated version of this site, swedish version only, can be found on
>these two addresses: http://www.pul.nu http://www.fgj.se
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