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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!
Don't blame them a bit.. It's not gonna be long before that starts happening in the USA... if it hasn't already...
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
Actually, you could see it as fighting: They put pressure on their government, which is one of the ways companies can yield power over governments. So, yes, they will "run away", but not without making a point first.
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
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!
At this point, the only real option is to assume that all traffic on the public internet is being monitored by at least one government, if not more. Good reason to use encryption - and don't store anything confidential unencrypted on a computer you have not got physical control over.
Funny the French are cowards for not supporting the Iraq war. How unpatriotic and muslim loving ...
But today seems like the French had a brain while the Americans were flying their flag singing patriotism under the scope of insane nationalism and didn't even realize they were manipulated.
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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.
run WHERE? To Russia? Or China? Yeah, no monitoring going on there.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
But today seems like the French had a brain while the Americans were flying their flag singing patriotism under the scope of insane nationalism and didn't even realize they were manipulated.
So what you're saying is that you couldn't bother yourself to read the summary or the article, right?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
That's the only reason we can still travel while the commie countries had their subjects locked in: There's no "west" we could run to.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
We're part of "5 Eyes". Just like we participated in Echelon.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
That's why Japan and the UK are laying an undersea cable across the pole. Unless you use satellites only (fat chance - latency sucks) anything going from north america to elsewhere is going to go through the US on it's way undersea.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
run WHERE? To Russia? Or China? Yeah, no monitoring going on there.
OVH is based in the North of France and has mentioned they would move to Belgium. This is one of the biggest hoster in Europe, so it could be a big deal.
Gandi, which is one of the biggest Registrar in Europe, has said it would move to Switzerland.
I don't know about the others.
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