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

Erik Lönroth erik.lonroth at gmail.com
Sat Dec 4 16:35:33 CET 2010


Can we have this text translated into French?

Anyone knows Chineese?

http://openpad.me/m9av1kOVgs

/Erik

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Paul Da Silva <pdasilva at partipirate.org> wrote:
> As you said there are two separate issues : does the government has the
> right to choose, all alone, to censor a website (and the answer is no of
> course) and should wikileaks be censored (on this part i completly agree
> with you).
>
> Our reaction was more on the first point I mentioned and OVH, the hosting
> company we're talking about here, just asked the justice to decide (as it
> should have been done from the begining). In the next hours / days we will
> know if french justice considers wikileaks legal or not.
>
> If it is legal, then we won a battle. If it is not we will have to react and
> protest against it...
>
> But we thought emergency was to point out the fact what asked this minister
> is illegal by itself as he has no right to ask for it !
>
> 2010/12/3 Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org>
>>
>> There are two separate and important issues here:
>> is Wikileaks legal, and is it right.
>>
>> If those who host Wikileaks are perceived as defending Wikileaks
>> through legal technicalities alone, people will call them "loopholes",
>> and there will be pressure for those "loopholes" to be closed.
>>
>> We need to defend Wikileaks by saying it is heroic defense of human
>> rights, and argue that it _should_ be legal.  Thus, if it _is_ legal,
>> that is not a loophole, it is justice.
>>
>> --
>> Richard Stallman
>> President, Free Software Foundation
>> 51 Franklin St
>> Boston MA 02110
>> USA
>> www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org
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