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The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet
Psychophrenes writes "A new episode in French internet legislation — French ministers have passed a bill (original in French) allowing the government to add any website to a black list, which access providers will have to enforce. This black list will be defined by the government only, without requiring the intervention of the legal system. Although originally intended against pedo-pornographic websites, this bill is already outdated, as was Hadopi in its time, and instead paves the way for a global censorship of the 'French internet.'"
I am french and at the moment everybody should leave this country for china.
Thanks for confirming French people are cowards!
My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
I wonder if they will add Google's list of French military victories to that blacklist...
Motorcycles, Robots, Space Gossip and More!
They're only censoring it to protect their culture. French ISPs need to carry at least 75% French content, like their television and radio.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Where is that legendary fighting French spirit?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
How else are we going to pay for the wonderful health care we'd get from the very same government that gave us the TSA?
Just think of the benefits. Apparently from next year Americans are going to get a free prostate exam from the TSA every time they fly.
I think China may actually be worse, but I am not sure, I can't get anyone their to comment.
That may be a good thing. Making contact with China only to get a lecture on the difference between 'there,' and 'their' would be embarrassing ;)
I too, but thanks to this, we now have an extremely effective rally cry...
"No Internet Blacklists No! You Don't Want To Be Like France, Do You?!"
Of course, the most impact it could possibly have is that they'd probably just implement a freedomwall instead of a firewall :-/
Je t'aime, au revoir! ;-)
They're French, what did you expect? It takes a while to organize a protest when your people are only working 30 hours a week.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
That may be a good thing. Making contact with China only to get a lecture on the difference between 'there,' and 'their' would be embarrassing ;)
Haha. These slashdotters are relentless with the grammar. I gotsed nailed yesterday for a small handful of mistakes which I will never make again.
I've heard of grammar nazis, but goatse-ing someone for poor grammar is rude.
What were all those "The south will rise again" bumper stickers ...
Viagra ads.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
They're just crazy with punctuation. Especially colons.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.