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Question for the EU Culture Committee

Posted June 16th, 2008 by quarsan
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This report from the EU Parliament's Culture Committee has been taking aim at those naughty uncontrolled bloggers.

Ms Mikko told us "the blogosphere has so far been a haven of good intentions and relatively honest dealing. However, with blogs becoming commonplace, less principled people will want to use them".
 
Asked if she considered bloggers to be "a threat", she said "we do not see bloggers as a threat. They are in position, however, to considerably pollute cyberspace. We already have too much spam, misinformation and malicious intent in cyberspace".
German Liberal Jorgo Chatzimarkakis acted as advisor for the Economic and Monetary committee. He told us that "bloggers cannot automatically be considered a threat, but imagine pressure groups, professional interests or any other groups using blogs to pass on their message. Blogs are powerful tools, they can represent an advance form of lobbyism, which in turn can be seen as a threat".

We've asked Ms Mikko for an interview and have posed a question to the web editor, who asks for feedback:

"Does the Culture Committee regard Commissioner Margot Wallström, Vice-President of the European Commission's blog a threat?

Or Us? "

We'll let you know any reply we get. If any.