UK Government Resists EC Online Regulation

"A UK government minister has claimed that Europe's attempts to regulate online content are badly planned and potentially damaging. The British Government has launched a fierce attack on the European Commission over proposed legislation that seeks to regulate online content.

Existing Television without Frontiers (TVwF) regulations cover traditional broadcasters, and set minimum standards for advertising and the protection of minors. The EC wants to extend them to cover online audio-visual content, including new media broadcasting and emerging technological platforms.

The UK Government called the proposals "ill thought-through and ill-conceived" on Thursday, and said that the proposals would inhibit economic growth. Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK