Europe is now debating whether to regulate the status of blogs because of the potential threat they pose to democracy in the world. The Culture Committee has taken it upon themselves to protect the interests of the web, and in doing so is setting out to become the first democratic region in the world to regulate the freedom of expression on the web. There is no word so far on how they would attempt to carry out this plan, but given that they are talking of the EU as a whole it could cover 500 million EU citizens. "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". He said "any blogger representing or expressing more than their personal view should be affected by this report.'" Apparently in an effort to protect democracy online Europe might inadvertently be taking a step towards totalitarianism. for further information see: europarl.europa.eu further comments: telegraph.co.uk/bruno_waterfield/
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