[open-science] publishing requires an export permit: new means for censorship in The Netherlands

[Egon Willighagen]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Diane Cabell <dc at icommons.org> wrote:
> What is the nature of the authority that the Minister has in this regard?  Is he claiming power under some munitions regulation or from something else?  Is there some specific research that led to this reaction?

It originates from the research at Rotterdam where the mutated a flu
virus, showing how little is needed for a flu to mutate to become
dangerous. The international scientific community is dealing with this
properly already, but that is apparently not enough for underminister
Bleker.

But the problem is that means the Dutch underminister picks up...
"publishing is export an requires a permit".

*That* applies to all science. And that threat is really badly picked
by the underminister...

Egon


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