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Ms Nadja Lefévre
Director Internal Communication a.i
ISAR - R.720
Techrights in the EPO Blacklist
Dear Ms Lefévre,
The CSC has recently become aware that the website of Techrights
http://www.techrights.org) is no longer accessible from within the Office.
The error message received when trying to access the site seems to
suggest it has been black-listed.
We respectfully ask to be informed:
— which other websites have been thus blocked,
— who has taken the decision to block access to these / these
website(s), and
— for what reasons these sites have been blocked?
Blocking regular, publicly available websites from access by EPO staff,
presumably because the content is critical of the President, is censorship
ata level that we would not expect to see in Europe in this century.
We therefore express the hope the practice of blocking such sites will be
discontinued.
Sincerely yours,
The Central Staff Committee
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website of Techrights from within the Office
We confirm that the above letter has been legitimately decided by the
Central Staff Committee:
2i43/4ANNEX:
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