"Neither Dutch politicians nor the Dutch media really give a shit about digital civil rights."
O.o
Where do you get your information about Dutch politicans and the media? When a judge ruled that XS4ALL and Ziggo should block TPB, it caused an uproar in The Hague. Ok, said uproar wasn't that bad, but most oppositional parties (D66, PvdA, GroenLinks and SP) together introduced a motion about the issue, and were very much against it. Given that the PVV approved of the motion, and recently called the blockage 'censure', I can say without a doubt that msot politicians in the Netherlands 'give a shit' about digital civil rights.
As for the media, I don't see where you got that, either. Pretty much anything that concerns digital media rights and the Netherlands gets printed in most major newspapers here.
Not that there aren't some things in politics here that I think are stupid, but digital civil rights isn't what I'd think of first.
"uproar in The Hague". Are you kidding me? Only the PVV made a bit of noise, but that's the same PVV that did a 180 on ACTA. As if anybody takes them seriously.
PvdA have sold out our rights every time they where in power. The SP has already shown itself in favor of internet censorship on several occasions (yes, even when it came to supporting the copyright mafia, that's the "socialist" party for you).
Pirate Bay will be blocked, and nothing else will happen. The only hope is not having a corrupted judge on the appeal, because the media will drop the story after tomorrow, and so will the politicians. And we'll be stuck with yet a bit less freedom on top of everything they've taken away over the past few decades.
Net neutrality was the only real win, ever, in the past 20 years. The rest has all been a downhill slope.
We are the country that wiretaps its citizens on the largest scale of any western nation. We have implemented a public transport system that allows us to trace people's comings and goings. The media has swept most of that under the rug, just like it has swept ACTA under the rug.
And it's not just digital civil rights that is a low priority in the Netherlands, it's civil rights in general. Look at how we are now an ID-card carrying nation without much protest.
O.o
Where do you get your information about Dutch politicans and the media? When a judge ruled that XS4ALL and Ziggo should block TPB, it caused an uproar in The Hague. Ok, said uproar wasn't that bad, but most oppositional parties (D66, PvdA, GroenLinks and SP) together introduced a motion about the issue, and were very much against it. Given that the PVV approved of the motion, and recently called the blockage 'censure', I can say without a doubt that msot politicians in the Netherlands 'give a shit' about digital civil rights.
As for the media, I don't see where you got that, either. Pretty much anything that concerns digital media rights and the Netherlands gets printed in most major newspapers here.
Not that there aren't some things in politics here that I think are stupid, but digital civil rights isn't what I'd think of first.