French Net Censorship Plan Moves Forward 108
angry tapir writes "French lawmakers have voted to approve a draft law to filter Internet traffic that Slashdot previously discussed. The government says the measure is intended to catch child pornographers. The Senate, where the government has a majority, will soon give the bill a second reading. If the Senate makes no amendments to the text, that will also be its final reading, as the government has declared the bill 'urgent,' a procedural move that reduces the usual cycle of four readings to two."
Bon chance! (Score:4, Funny)
Bon chance avec ça!
P.S. Preimer!
Well... (Score:0, Funny)
I surrender!
Re:Won't somebody... (Score:3, Funny)
Pensez aux enfants!?
Apologies if the French is totally wrong, just ran it through babelfish. :)
If I remember my high school French correctly, that would translate to "Think in the children", which is hilarious by itself. I would think the correct French would be "Pensez des enfants", though penser may be one of those weird verbs that takes an article that doesn't match the literal translation. I'm just gonna ignore the fact that "pensez" is second-person plural (i.e. a command), since I'm not sure which form is supposed to follow "somebody".
Re:Outmaneuvering censorship (Score:5, Funny)
In a place like France, people could easily get wifi signals from Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, etc depending on where they lived.
Either you've got the range of WiFi quite a bit wrong, or you believe France is the size of a large apartment where over sixty million people somehow manage to fit.
I don't know which option is weirder.
Re:Outmaneuvering censorship (Score:4, Funny)
it has the word social in it, so you might as well just put up a big red flag as far as Americans are concerned.