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France Votes Tuesday On Net Censorship

Posted by timothy on from the to-go-with-ebay-censorship dept.

angry tapir writes "French lawmakers will vote next Tuesday on a proposal to filter Internet traffic. Part of a new security bill, the measure is intended to catch child pornographers. However, once the filtering system is in place it will allow the government to censor other material too. Slashdot has previously discussed Australia's proposed ISP-level filter."

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  1. Ah, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Child porn, the European root password to society. In America, it's "terrorism". I'm sure the politicians rejoice that the people let themselves be programmed to respond in such a simple way to these root passwords...

    1. Re:Ah, by calmofthestorm · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Child porn works over here too, you just have to use sudo.

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