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

Fri Mar 9 08:44:14 UTC 2012

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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...
>
>
Unbelievable.

This is similar to the US restriction on software. You may not sell
computational cheistry software to the axis-of-evil (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil Iran, North Korea, Cuba etc. -
the list changes). The American Chemical Society does not accept papers
from authors in these countries (I think this is a legal restriction and
may be true of all US publishers).

And the Netherlands has also produced Neelie Kroes who is fighting for
knowledge liberation in Europe.

If Bleker meets Kroes then we we might have a knowledge - anti-knowledge
explosion

P.

Egon
>
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