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

Fri Mar 9 09:14:47 UTC 2012

The reaction of the under-minister is also comparable to the reaction that
open access to scientific literature is dangerous because terrorists can
use it (one of the arguments in the debate around SOPA)
The u minister thinks he can do this because he is u minister of the Deprt
of Economics in the Netherlands but we have to see if he can pull this off.
Meanwhile I think we should strongly protest this move
Tom Olijhoek

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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> 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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