The European Parliament has passed a resolution urging the European Commission and member states, “to safeguard media pluralism.” The resolution also calls for, “an open discussion on all issues relating to the status of weblogs.”
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted 307 to 262 on Sep. 25, in support of the resolution, based on a report produced this summer by the Parliamentary Committee on Culture and Education.
The original report caused a blogstorm in June, when Swedish media mistakenly thought the report was draft legislation aimed at forcing European bloggers to be registered. In fact, the European Parliament cannot initiate legislation.
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