The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet 419
Psychophrenes writes "A new episode in French internet legislation — French ministers have passed a bill (original in French) allowing the government to add any website to a black list, which access providers will have to enforce. This black list will be defined by the government only, without requiring the intervention of the legal system. Although originally intended against pedo-pornographic websites, this bill is already outdated, as was Hadopi in its time, and instead paves the way for a global censorship of the 'French internet.'"
Re:france sucks (Score:2, Funny)
I am french and at the moment everybody should leave this country for china.
Thanks for confirming French people are cowards!
I Wonder (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There they go again... (Score:3, Funny)
I can't believe the French just gave in on this (Score:5, Funny)
Where is that legendary fighting French spirit?
Re:Business as usual (Score:5, Funny)
How else are we going to pay for the wonderful health care we'd get from the very same government that gave us the TSA?
Just think of the benefits. Apparently from next year Americans are going to get a free prostate exam from the TSA every time they fly.
Re:france sucks (Score:4, Funny)
I think China may actually be worse, but I am not sure, I can't get anyone their to comment.
That may be a good thing. Making contact with China only to get a lecture on the difference between 'there,' and 'their' would be embarrassing ;)
Re:france sucks (Score:4, Funny)
I too, but thanks to this, we now have an extremely effective rally cry...
"No Internet Blacklists No! You Don't Want To Be Like France, Do You?!"
Of course, the most impact it could possibly have is that they'd probably just implement a freedomwall instead of a firewall :-/
Je t'aime, au revoir! ;-)
Re:There they go again... (Score:2, Funny)
They're French, what did you expect? It takes a while to organize a protest when your people are only working 30 hours a week.
Re:france sucks (Score:5, Funny)
That may be a good thing. Making contact with China only to get a lecture on the difference between 'there,' and 'their' would be embarrassing ;)
Haha. These slashdotters are relentless with the grammar. I gotsed nailed yesterday for a small handful of mistakes which I will never make again.
I've heard of grammar nazis, but goatse-ing someone for poor grammar is rude.
Re:There they go again... (Score:5, Funny)
What were all those "The south will rise again" bumper stickers ...
Viagra ads.
Re:I can't believe the French just gave in on this (Score:4, Funny)
The government has SMG's?
It's a typo. The government has MSG. They cornered the market on tasty.
Re:france sucks (Score:5, Funny)
They're just crazy with punctuation. Especially colons.