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Those who start to scratch the surface, such as Julia Reda – German Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA Group – and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), are uncovering how the EC carefully cherry-picked the evidence that supports their ideological policy choices, whilst withholding evidence going against them. The EC officials must have confused policy-based evidence making with evidence-based policy making.
Just before the 2017 Winter break, MEP Reda uncovered another attempt of the EC to swipe evidence under the carpet. Officials from the EC's Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) where caught in the act, when they 'kindly' reminded a researcher of the EC's Joint Research Centre (JRC) to not publish a study, contradicting the EC's policy choice, on the highly debated press publishers' right (Article 11) at the request of their hierarchy.
Source : European Commission Hides Copyright Evidence Again
(Score: 5, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:40AM (11 children)
There should be a regulation that whenever it can be shown that important evidence showing negative effects or lack of positive effects of a regulation was actively hidden before the regulation was installed, that regulation automatically gets invalidated.
Yes, I know that will never happen. But one can dream.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by coolgopher on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:57AM (9 children)
Add in that the legislators automatically get charged with something like criminal negligence and/or corruption.
While we're dreaming, I mean.
(Score: 5, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Thursday January 18 2018, @11:12AM (8 children)
While we're dreaming, add that this corruption and lying leads to such a huge public outcry that the dirty politicians are forced to resign, and the donors who backed the position are exposed, tried for corruption, found guilty, and imprisoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @11:45AM (7 children)
One better,.....
Lynch all professional politicians. Anyone doing politics as a profession is per definition a money-grubbing, untrustworthy thief.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Wootery on Thursday January 18 2018, @11:52AM (6 children)
AC misjudges tone of thread; posts idiotic comment. More at 11.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:39PM (5 children)
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:49PM (4 children)
Eh. It's not always stupid to mention Nazis, but it's always stupid to say "hang all politicians".
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:10PM (3 children)
Hmmm... why? (see sig :)
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Friday January 19 2018, @12:54AM (2 children)
What next? The Spanish inquisition?
Or the Pratchet solution [wikipedia.org]? (read it - you''ll recognise the politician connection)
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday January 19 2018, @07:14PM (1 child)
Well, that was unexpected.
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:42AM
It's amongst our weaponry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @05:57PM
IANAL, but was actively hidden seems brim-packed with a weaseling out potential. After all, it is not that the politicians, lawmakers even really care about the evidence, they just need a little bit of an excuse to cover their asses.