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French Elections Could Affect HADOPI, ACTA
bs0d3 writes "From having a position in the development and support of ACTA, to implementation of HADOPI, to imposing an internet tax to pay for music; France has been at the forefront of anti-piracy legislation. This week, it has been announced that current President and anti-piracy advocate Nicolas Sarkozy is unlikely to win the next election. His leading opponent is a man named Francois Hollande. Hollande has in the past opposed both ACTA and HADOPI (France's 3 strikes law). Hollande believes that ACTA, 'originally intended to combat counterfeiting trade[,] was gradually diverted from its objective, in the utmost discretion and without any democratic process.' At the same time, Hollande is also strongly against piracy. 'Piracy has been costly,' Hollande said, 'but I do not think that law enforcement alone is the answer to the problem.' Will internet issues be of concern to the voters in France? It certainly is to the rest of us internet users."
'Piracy has been costly,' Hollande said, 'but I do not think that law enforcement alone is the answer to the problem.'
If law enforcement is not enough, bring in the Inquisition... or Schutzstaffel.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
as it comes off pretty much like American politics and how one political party endlessly describes the other, including the "they fear Muslims" line.
Yeah, why don't you visit the heavily Muslim districts of France sometime and see if you want that where _you_ live. Which districts? The ones where even the police are afraid to go. Muslims do not assimilate into the nations they move into. They don't go to France because they want to be French. They don't go to America because they want to be Americans. They go someplace and insist that everyone accommodate _their_ customs. They also outbreed the local population by a large margin. Soon several European countries are going to lose their ethnic and cultural identities and will resemble a Middle Eastern Arab nation.
There is nothing bigoted about wanting to retain one's own ethnic identity. Bigotry is when you want to retain your ethnicity but you don't want another group to have theirs. I want everyone to retain theirs. Muslims don't. Multiculturalism is most promoted by secular Jews who own most of the mainstream media but oddly enough they don't themselves practice it. That's American politics right there -- every foreign culture that you're nice enough to allow into your country is better than yours and more important than yours and more worthy of preservation than yours, because you're the oppressive white man even if you never oppressed anyone.
Muslims are just like the Chinese - they are in it for the long haul. They don't mind planning decades into the future. That is why we will probably lose the culture wars to both of those because they are more strategic.