[pp.int.general] French Minister calling to "put an end to Wikileaks hosting in France",

[Maxime Rouquet]

French Pirate Party has written an open letter to Eric Besson about 
Wikileaks, you can read it here : http://ppfr.it/pplettrebesson
(all links in French, I tried to translate as best as I could...)

A summary of what happened today :

0) Wikileaks is now (at least partly) hosted by Ovh, a French company.

1) Eric Besson, our Minister of Industry, Energy and digital Economy, 
has called to put an end to Wikileaks hosting in France : http://ppfr.it/afp

Eric Besson has written that we "cannot  host Internet sites called 
criminal and rejected by other States because of the damage they do to 
their fundamental rights". He also wants that "in a second time" the 
actors of the Wikileaks hosting in France are put "behind their 
responsibilities" : http://ppfr.it/bessonwikileaks

2) Ovh have resisted to political pressure and claimed that their job is 
to host the sites of their clients, and that is all. The law is 
protecting them and tells only a judge can ask a hosting service to cut 
down a site : http://ppfr.it/ovhwikileaks

Their words : "This is not to political world or to Ovh to ask to or to 
decide to close a site, it is to the justice. This is how it works in a 
state of right."

3) Under growing pressure, Ovh have asked a judge to tell them whether 
they have to stop hosting Wikileaks or not, and will follow his decision.

The judge cannot state definitely that Wikileaks is illegal, but he can 
tell Wikileaks' cablegate "may" be illegal, and Ovh will have to stop 
hosting it...

But if he says it is not illegal, Wikileaks will likely keep his new 
hosting service longer than Amazon...

4) We have written an open letter to Eric Besson to basically remind him 
the separation of powers, the fact that he did not even know why hosting 
Wikileaks would be illegal, the fact that French "LCEN" law protects 
hosting providers unless the justice asks them to stop hosting a site.

We also call Octave Klaba, founder of Ovh, to resist to pressures, and 
congratulate him for having asked for justice instead of doing like 
Amazon Web Services.

(You can find at the end a few links to Wikileaks website or lists of 
domain names that redirect to it.)