"Prodded by the music industry and government, some Internet service providers are reluctantly exploring the adoption of an old-fashioned shunning ritual as the ultimate 21st century punishment: banishing errant online users. [...] «It's a breach of our civil liberties,» said Christofer Fjellner, a Swedish legislator in the European Parliament who sponsored the measure, an amendment to a report on cultural industries in Europe. « When government limits access to the Internet it's like limiting freedom of speech. It's like banning people from printing books. » ..."