[pp.int.general] LOPPSI: The Internet is now filtered in France

[Valentin Villenave]

Greetings everyone,

against all odds, the French Parliament has just voted the 4th article
of the "LOPPSI" law (that also happens to include such things as
mandatory video-surveillance, no-children-in-the-streets-after-22pm
measures, full-body scanners and other delights).

This specific article gives the government (with a judge's signature,
fortunately) the ability to force ISPs to block several blacklisted
websites for all their users. Just like in Australia, in a nutshell.
And just like in Australia, child pornography is the alleged motive
but we already know this won't last long don't we?

OK, who's next now? UK? Germany (again)? Italy?

Cheers,
Valentin