French Government decides to censor the Internet
Keep your Égalité and Fraternité but shove your Liberté!
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has apparently decided that it doesn’t much like being democratic, and that it would rather like to censor the Internet instead.
Not content with simply limiting itself to blocking despicable child sex abuse, a move three major ISPs in the US also agreed to today, the French government feels it necessary to go a radical step further and decide for its citizens whether or not they can view content it considers inappropriately racist and or linked to terrorism.
In fact, worse still is that any site is now game for a French blockade, as Sarkozy’s government is inviting people to send in huge long lists of sites which offend their delicate sensibilities. The French government, which will purportedly be able to receive complaints from Internet users in real time, will be able to add sites to a so called “black list”, which it will then force national ISPs to block.
The move, announced by France’s Interior Minister, Michel Alliot-Marie, is France’s way of showing it is indeed taking a strong stand against cyber-criminality, but it seems that the line between ‘strong’ and ‘authoritarian’ is a little fuzzy on this one.
Alliot-Marie, only caring to justify the block on child sex abuse sites, noted “Other democracies have done it. France could wait no longer". She added that all of France’s Internet Service Providers had agreed to comply with the new regulations which go into effect as of September.
The minister vehemently denied that the French government was turning itself into "a Big Brother of the Internet" and promised that the "fundamental liberty that is Internet access" would continue to thrive. As long as people only see the sites the government allows them to see, of course. µ
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The wonderful world of Internet censorship
In Sweden, the so called "child porn filter" has been used to block vile stuff like bonzai trees, dancing children and hentai sites. A list of the blocked sites leaked, and people went through the list. In the end, it was uncertain if ANYTHING on the list had any actual connection to child porn. Oh, and they were close to using it to block The Pirate Bay once.I guess we're one of the stellar examples France wants to follow.
Hmmm
It's only a matter of time before this fascism is going to affect the press ... and we will have government people who decide what is right and wrong for us to see."If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and never will be."
Slippery Slide
Once you start censoring websites you then have to go after the ones that tell you how to avoid censorship then the language translation ones (the old Google translator as a proxy is a classic) ..and teh collateral damage is just stupid...Looks like the old French philosopher who would 'defend the right to disagree' is in the rubbish bin. A sad day...@ geos
"It's only a matter of time before this fascism is going to affect the press ... and we will have government people who decide what is right and wrong for us to see. "Have you not seen or read anything from the BBC recently? Start by examining how the 'climate change' arguments are presented.
I can proudly state that I recently cancelled my Biased Brainwashing Cartel TV licence and got a refund! (although they tried to swizz me out of that too)
Leave the stupid in charge and they produce stupid ideas...
Isn't it funny that laws and regulations are made by people who don't understand the technology they try to change/affect?People in search of this stuff simply use different methods such as TOR if they don't do it already. The money they spend and the risks involved to block the wrong sites is far higher than it's use.
As long as there is a "need" there will be one smart-ass delivering.
leftism and unintentional consequences
where is all the out rage?if bush took away a terrorist llberty
there would be 30 pages of bitching and name calling
but when its your own EU Goverments almost near silents
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How can you know what sites offend you unless you look them up?Freedom
It should come as no surprise that sarkozy is jewish. Imagine that!I hope that the peoples of europe, and america, reclaim their countries from their jew world order terrorist "governments" which have hijacked them.
They HAVE been controlloing all the news, why not the net?
"It's only a matter of time before this fascism is going to affect the press ... and we will have government people who decide what is right and wrong for us to see."Geos, I don't know where you have been, but this has been happening for decades now. We already know newspapers print articles they are made to print, and same goes for TV news. Of course they need to mod the net as well. People up top can't afford to lose their corrupted place in the government just because people are waking up to the truth. That's why they never report important riots or the millions who protested against the war in Iraq in the States, millions walked the streets, and much to their amazement, those millions never got to the news. Same goes for everything else that really matters to the people, it's NOT on the news. It's all about, war, war, war on terrorism, war on these guys, war on those guys. Since when has THIS been accepted as news? Please tell me how 'war' can cover a majority of the main articles everywhere? Is death that famous? I am bored with it, and I never, in the first place, wanted to see pictures of decapitated people on the front page, or beheaded people, but they are there, it's disgusting, it's not news, it's all crap and it's all PRESELECTED news. To brainwash you, why? Because when you are ignorant and stupid of all, it's easy to control you with a little violence.
What do you expect?
People who have any interest whatsoever in liberty, equality or fraternity have no friend in the nasty little hook-nosed dwarf who currently inhabits the palace in Paris. Empereur Sarko le Nabot Mechant, I call him.His appalling lack of taste, his penchant for other rich men's cast-off girlfriends, and his general comportment, reek of the mittel-europaeische sty from which his forebears crawled - and anyone who has followed Ariel Sharon's pre-headache career knows how those folks prefer to run things.
Hungarian aristocracy, indeed. That's as ridiculous a word-pairing as "Cheney compassion" or "Condoleezzaa heterosexuality".
Cheerio from Deepest Darkest France, where non-sheep always use FoxyProxy anyhow...
thoughtcrime is death
...in case no one is paying attention..."child pr0 n" is used as smokescreen: the real issue is that "nation states" + those control the tools of commerce are attempting to put the internet genie back in the bottle by making isp's extensions of the legal structure of "gov't" so that they can be privy to any attempts humans attempt to create alternate means of commercial exchange...controlling "ch1L d pr0 N" is nonsense.
One needn't harrass mental deviants engaged in data exchange: it is enough to do the job of investigating kidnapping and rape...why is it argued that one form of rape is worse than another? Because most humans find ch1ld m0l3stati 0 n to be reprehensible on a emotional level cease rational thought in the face of emotional arguments designed to manipulate them to accept bad ideas that are more harmful to the culture than the problem in question.
Are "they" seriously making the argument that a handful of misfits behavior should define an entire nations "policy" regarding the free exchange of info?
good luck.
the war between free thinkers, hackers and regulators/powermongers is begining to tailspin clarifying the issues for those who once thought it to be nothing more then demented c0nspiracy theory...
French Government decides to censor the Internet
Let us hope that the French have enough gonads to stop their government from introducing these draconian legislationFascism
Don't know what country you live in but the main stream media is already controlled by fascism here in the US. The internet and emails are being looked at without permission from the courts now. Fascism is well intrenched here.The-Internet-Post.blogspot.com
The Facts
This is not "fascism". Let's be plainspoken - it is Jewish goonism.What chance the lying, swindling website nizkor.org will get blocked? In fact, just try making a complaint about it. Jewish gangsters would soon drag you off to Devil's Island (the French equivalent of Abu Ghraib).
Voltaire turning in his grave
No surprise considering the recent conviction of Bridget Bardot on charges of inciting racial hatred. By the way, the US press loves Sarkozy, in particular, the Drudge Report pisses its pants over him.Truth is treason, in the empire of lies!
Sarkozy was never elected. He is a Mossad spy.In Amerika, they better take our guns before they take our internet.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
French Revolution
I think it's time the Frenchies started axing some heads.Internet: The thorn in Authority's side
OK, so that's France off the Emigration Destination List. And then those European countries with Holocaust denial laws, which of course includes Holocaust revision. But then the camp of Auschwitz itself officially lowered the number of victims from four million to 1.5 million, so looks like those running the camp today are guilty of Holocaust revision (aka denial). So pretty much write off most of Europe. Non-Muslim Asia looks promising. Nice neutral Buddhist country, anyone. Welcome to the free world; what’s left of it.Sarkozy & Matt Drudge -- Wkipedia
Hmmm, no surprises here --Matt Drudge
Born October 27, 1966 (1966-10-27) (age 41)
Takoma Park, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation Internet News Editor
Ethnicity Caucasian
Religious belief(s) Jewish
Salary $800K (2003)
Notable credit(s) Reporting Political Scandals
The Facts
This is not "fascism". Let's be plainspoken - it is Jewish goonism.
What chance the lying, swindling website nizkor.org will get blocked? In fact, just try making a complaint about it. Jewish gangsters would soon drag you off to Devil's Island (the French equivalent of Abu Ghraib).
posted by : Universal Mind, 12 June 2008
Voltaire turning in his grave
No surprise considering the recent conviction of Bridget Bardot on charges of inciting racial hatred. By the way, the US press loves Sarkozy, in particular, the Drudge Report pisses its pants over him.
posted by : euclidcreek, 12 June 2008