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French Intelligence Bill: 5 Web Hosting Providers Threaten To Leave the Country
albert555 (3986073) writes Five popular French web hosting providers, including Gandi and OVH, said on Thursday that the new French intelligence bill might push them to leave the country (French) in order not to lose their customers. The five companies are protesting against the "real-time capture of data connection" and their analysis by the intelligence services using "+black boxes+ with blurred lines". The web hosting providers believe that this project "will not reach its goal and will potentially put every French citizen under surveillance, that will result in the destruction of a major segment of the economy of our country," by pushing their customers to turn to other less intrusive territories. If the bill is passed as it is, "we have to move our infrastructure, our investments and our employees where our customers want to work with us". The companies have provided a listing of dozen cities where they "will suppress jobs instead of creating new ones."; "These are thousands of jobs (...) that startups and large companies will also create elsewhere," they add. The press release was addressed to the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, and was co-signed by Gandu, OVH, IDS, Ikoula and Lomaco.
The cowardly French companies are running away!
Why do the policiians not realize that the tools they are giving can and will be misused and abused and that those same politicians are very likely to be the targets of that misuse?
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Man, you can use that letter against the borg... To make them sleep while they are reading it.
Which idiot believes that lame story? Its only for the PR, no company will move. Its like that ms thingy: make some pseudo opposition while figuring out how to best sell the user's data behind the curtains.
Just like all countries are now running away from deals with American businesses because of NSA backdoors...
Black Box Blurred Lines.
I think I prefer the former.
Soon there will be a Walmart in every town, a Starbucks on every street corner and the police will stop and frisk minorities with bullets.
It's only a democratic country because there can vote for the king, but the king choose the ministers and the ministers can do anything. The parliament is a joke to keep some credibility that some discussion exists. The citizen are left with there problems and never take seriously.
after all now we have freedom fries!
All nation's gov are monitoring the net. So many idiots scream about America, but the fact is, that all of Europe, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, India, etc have been caught monitoring data and lines. There are LOADS of enemies out there, and every nation's gov wants to know what is going on.
If these host providers move anywhere on ANY LAND, they will be monitored. The ONLY way to avoid it, is to put your own sat network up there and beam down to others.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
They can lay this crap on the service providers. Where are they going to go? And besides, the public keeps voting for it, indicating that the people who don't like it are a tiny minority, despite what the bullshit media polls will tell you.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Yeah, but is it statistically noticeable? And since American business is so heavily invested overseas, what difference does it make?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
We should be opposite g the wholesale collection of data because it
There's plenty of room in their Beauharnois datacenter just outside of Montreal here in Canada, we'd be happy to have more of OVH's business here :)
As in https://www.gandi.net/. They have data centers in the US and Luxembourg in addition to France. They started out as a domain registrar in Paris, and now do quite a bit of Xen hosting business.
The organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed reservations on Tuesday 7 April; they believe the bill could open the back door to a surveillance society... aehm cough cough a little late to be giving comments like that, mentinks the barn door to that society is already wide open and people of the world who wish to be free are scrambling to close that door while the sheeple happily plod along in their own little happy world populated by the latest gossip about reality stars of no significance other that creating a mesmerizing circus to hold captive the mere second short attention span of the slaves so as to make sure they won't figure out what is going on around them every day...
MS, ALS, Aphasia ? http://globability.org - Me http://einarpetersen.com
The poor, hard done by Jews who control France, and have turned it into a muslim infested shithole, where you get prison time for merely SAYING things that Jews don't like. Like the truth.
Please mod me down quickly, before somebody else finds out about the Jewish tyrants who are destroying your country. Idiots.
www.nazigassings.com
The "socialist" french government does not give a s**t about its citizen's opinion, but it seems to be very vigilant about what corporations want.
>french
>intelligence
pick one
1 I assume they will not go to USA, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada; or Germany (who while not the sixth eye are very close to it; and have or other internatioal major countries.
2. Perhaps to ? Let's have your guesses as they need to sell to paying customers
Regards Eion MacDonald
I for one decided not to use Gandi for hosting a couple of years ago, because I knew what the French stance on this sort of thing was. (I also recall that the Ts and Cs explicitly required the the registered email address to be checked daily, which is probably fine if you are signing up as a company, but which I think is unreasonable for just an individual person such as myself. That was a secondary reason not to choose Gandi.)