The EU-funded plan to stick a “flag this as terrorism” button in your browser

 

Under CleanIT's rules, the Irish ultra-nationalist "32 County Sovereignty Movement" site (an alias of the terrorist group the "Real IRA") couldn't be touched, as it's hosted in the US. 

Terrorists, beware! The European Union-funded "CleanIT" project has just wrapped up its work, aimed at preventing online terrorist propaganda and recruitment within Europe.

In the run-up to the final CleanIT conference in Brussels on Wednesday, the group published its final report, (PDF) a 30-page document outlining its final recommendations. This document and the conference are the culmination of a two-year, €326,000 ($440,000) study grant from the EU's Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme (PDF). (Ars editor Cyrus Farivar will be moderating this conference, and his travel and lodging have been paid for out of CleanIT's budget.)

The final report has shed some of its earlier outrageous ideas—such as OS and browser-level monitoring as a condition of selling software products in the EU.

For the rest of the story: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/the-eu-funded-plan-to-stick-a-flag-this-as-terrorism-button-in-your-browser/