French Riots Lead to Crackdown on Blogs

Browncoat writes "Wired reports that because of the recent riots in France, authorities have shut down a blog called Hardcore, whose participants have allegedly violating a French law concerning violent speech. Many bloggers fear there will be consequences for them if they are outspoken, even if it is in a nonviolent way. From the article: 'Ahmed Meguinia, a political activist who saw some of the Paris region's hardest-hit areas during the past week, said many bloggers feared prosecution for publishing even nonviolent content. While not condoning blogs that incited violence, he said that there was a lack of media coverage explaining why ethnically segregated inhabitants of some of France's poorest cities have been driven to riot. Instead, the world repeatedly sees CNN images of burning cars and shops, he said.'"

Comments

Re:They're rioting because they're troublemakers

[Hrvat]

Please mod parent funny or (since I do think he's serious) flamebait... either that or lock him up.

Remember, remember the fifth of November...

[Faw]

Maybe this riots are a promotion for the release of V for Vendetta

Please address this moderation abuse

[slashdot_commentator]

Its obviously meant to be "Funny" or "Insightful".

Re:Guess you don't read the hard leftist sites...

[rsborg]

Just go visit Democrat Underground or Daily Kos. You will find many articles that discuss violence against authority and the death of our President and Vice President.

Prove it. Mods, this parent is seriously flamebait. I could say the exact same thing about sites like FreeRepublic (in fact, I've seen many calls to violence over there, just not towards George/Dick).