Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:22:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:21:41 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley Subject: Swedish Anti-Internet Law: http://www.pul.nu/sid2eng.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:52:01 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley To: Workfare-Discuss@icomm.ca Subject: Swedish Anti-Internet Law: http://www.pul.nu/sid2eng.html Please have a look at the web site. This is a real killer for Swedish activists of all political persuasions. Possibly other EU citizens too. FWP. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 12:04:31 -0500 From: Greg Pearson To: int-law@listhost.ciesin.org Subject: Re: INT-LAW Swedish Anti-Internet Law. Franklin Wayne Poley wrote: > Can anyone on int-law confirm for me that Sweden is trying to pass a law > which would permit imprisonment for up to two years for anyone even > mentioning the name of a political adversary on the internet without > explicit permission? (and that the idea is to extend it to all of the > E.U.). This has been circulating on the net. Is it only a rumour? I suspect that what you are referring to is a misquote of an alleged new Swedish privacy law that, among other things, makes it a crime for non-journalists to mention people's names online without their permission. It applies to everybody, regardless of their status or lack thereof as somebody's "political adversary". It was passed in response to the EU's Directive on Data Privacy, which is probably where the the (backwards) idea that it should be extended to the EU comes from. There is a web site devoted to the issue published by a pair of Stockholm University journalism students, the English version of which can be found at http://www.pul.nu/sid2eng.html This is where my information on the subject comes from. I say "allegedly" because, as the source material is in Swedish which I do not read, I am unable to provide independent confirmation from other sources. However, a Swedish-language version of the paper appears to be hosted on the Stockholm University web site and I have no reason to doubt its accuracy. --Greg Pearson The World Justice Information Network http://www.justinfo.net ---- int-law@listhost.ciesin.org : Use this address for postings and replies - Email text body 'unsubscribe int-law' to: majordomo@listhost.ciesin.org -> Workfare-Discuss, the list for fighting workfare internationally -> To subscribe, send subscribe workfare-discuss to majordomo@icomm.ca -> List web site, http://www.icomm.ca/workfare/