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There's a voluntary program in the Netherlands that financially compensates ISPs for uploading logs to a central database where law enforcement is free to query it without, in practice, judicial oversight.

Laws are great, but they're easily circumvented. Especially in the Netherlands. That's why this "Free Internet" project is reasonably useless. Its view is too narrow, focusing only on official laws and not on actual practices. For instance, after the whole Project-X incident[1], law enforcement has been looking into being able to remove social media posts on a whim, without judicial oversight. Such underwater erosion of rights is common in the Netherlands.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_X_Haren



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