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

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

Ouch, there is a certain media mogul in Italy waiting for someone to be
first..


- Nicolas
  PPI / PPSE member


On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Valentin Villenave
<v.villenave at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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