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Sites Featuring "Terrorism" Or "Child Pornography" To Be Blocked In France
Advocatus Diaboli writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: Now, the General Directorate of the National Police and its cybercrimes unit will be able to request that sites serving terrorist or pedophilia-related content be blocked by Internet Service Providers serving people in France and its territories. ISPs then have to comply with the request within 24 hours. ISPs will be able to request compensation from the French government for any extra costs incurred in blocking the sites. Users who navigate to a site 'to which access is prohibited will be led to an informational page from the Ministry of the Interior,' the text of the decree said. The informational page will list the grounds for the blocking as well as any possibly remedies. Every quarter, French authorities will check whether the blocked pages still contain the offending material. If not, then the authorities will contact ISPs, which will have to unblock the sites, again within 24 hours.
I was just about to get the domains "DownWithTerrorism.com" and "EndChildPornography.org". Now what'll I do?
You obviously wouldn't have registered those anyway, because the keyword parts of common web filters would block them.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"