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).<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>If it is legal, then we won a battle. If it is not we will have to react and protest against it...<br><br>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 !<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/12/3 Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
There are two separate and important issues here:<br>
is Wikileaks legal, and is it right.<br>
<br>
If those who host Wikileaks are perceived as defending Wikileaks<br>
through legal technicalities alone, people will call them "loopholes",<br>
and there will be pressure for those "loopholes" to be closed.<br>
<br>
We need to defend Wikileaks by saying it is heroic defense of human<br>
rights, and argue that it _should_ be legal. Thus, if it _is_ legal,<br>
that is not a loophole, it is justice.<br>
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