There are more developments and complications in the EU action plan that was recently defined frattinising, but isn’t new – it’s one more dangerous episode of a long trend that has been around, worldwide and in Europe, for over fifteen years.
Let’s start with a touch of humour, then move on to (unfortunately) more dangerous and “imminent” threats.
It isn’t just a “coincidence” that something similar to the “frattinising” software appeared on October 19, 2007 in a cartoon by J.D. Frazer “Illiad”. The context is different, but the concept is the same.
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© 2007 J.D. Frazer “Illiad”
Perseverare frattinicum
It’s no joke, and it’s quite worrying, that on October 19 there was another statement by Franco Frattini, European Union Commissioner for “Justice, freedom, [sic] & Security“, who not only insisted, but “turned up the volume” on aggressive censorship threats, calling them “an ambitous counter terrorism package” due for “imminent” action.
This is not the matter of one person’s attitudes and intentions. As confirmed by several circumstances – including those explained in the statement published by EDRI on October 10, 2007, on other sorts of threats in an obtuse and repressive recommendation by the Council of Europe.
