[pp.int.general] Internet filtering without judiciary control in France

[Maxime Rouquet]

The National Assembly has just approved Internet filtering in France. 
They have rejected the judiciary control they had agreed on in first 
reading (12 votes against 9 tonight, when there is not far from 600 
seats...)

The Government and Senate being against the judiciary control, and 
rejection of such a text being unlikely, the last hope is in a 
censorship (!) of this part of the law from the Constitutionnal Council.

Council who offered us the great 2009 decision (Internet access is part 
of freedom of speach and communication and therefore cannot be cut 
without a judge telling so), but 4 out of the 9 members have changed, 
and they lately took less positive decisions...