Archive for 2010/12 :

Censoring Hungarian blogs during the Hungarian EU Presidency (Updated 4x)

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 22/12/10

As reported on Bloggingportal.eu: “On January 1st, Hungary will take over the Presidency of the EU Council. On the same day, a controversial new law will come into force that even the OSCE’s media freedom representative has openly criticised – arguing in a recent report that “regulating online media … exerts a chilling, self-censoring effect [...]

Not losing sight of the basics

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 19/12/10

It might seem strange for me to say this, but lately I’ve been wondering whether the EU institutions are now paying too much attention to social media. Don’t get me wrong, they have a thousand reasons for getting social media right – and also ensuring that they don’t get it wrong by poisoning the well [...]

#euco: damn, maybe we didn’t get through 2010 unscathed after all (Updated)

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 17/12/10

In September last year I wondered whether 2010 would be the year when someone poisoned the well for the use of social media by the EU (here and here). In the last few weeks I’ve been mentally preparing an update post, as it didn’t really look like it was going to happen. So is the [...]

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