France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
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France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
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Re: France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
#2France had an unfortunate history of self censorship from the media and active control of the public media from the president(de Gaulle that controlled the only TV channel, Mitterand ordering illegal wiretapping of journalists)
The actual french President is a control freak. Sarkozy has strong relationship with most of the private media owners and is using it.
He has since the start of his mandate tried to control the internet eg.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/may/13/france...
He is (ab)using a common view in France that speech should be controlled and freedom of speech isn't absolute. For instance, it is illegal to make xenophobic or racists comments. La quandrature du net is doing a good job of exposing the latest of his attacks and, hopefully public pressure can shame him out of his willingness to control everything.
He likes the French motto of "Liberty, equality fraternity". If enough people see him trying to replace the first one by censorship, he might be less aggressively trying.
Fortunately, his approval rate is record low, part of this is likely due to his abuse of power and willingness to control everything. Unfortunately, the best opposant is currently accused of sexual abuse.
Then, another member of the G8 is Italy, with Berlusconi as the president....
Interesting countries, all in all.
Re: France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
#3"(and not just Russia)"
Interesting angle, considering that article doesn't mention Russia anywhere else nor links to anything which does.
Re: France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
#4France had an unfortunate history of self censorship from the media and active control of the public media from the president(de Gaulle that controlled the only TV channel, Mitterand ordering illegal wiretapping of journalists) The actual french President is a control freak. Sarkozy has strong relationship with most of the private media owners and is using it. He has since the start of his mandate tried to control th…
>actual
The word you're looking for is "current".
Let's have a little patience. We're getting rid of Sarkozy soon enough, but we need to find a suitable replacement. There's the rub.
Re: France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
#5France had an unfortunate history of self censorship from the media and active control of the public media from the president(de Gaulle that controlled the only TV channel, Mitterand ordering illegal wiretapping of journalists) The actual french President is a control freak. Sarkozy has strong relationship with most of the private media owners and is using it. He has since the start of his mandate tried to control th…
> actual The word you're looking for is "current". Let's have a little patience. We're getting rid of Sarkozy soon enough, but we need to find a suitable replacement. There's the rub.
> The word you're looking for is "current".
"Actual" is a synonym for "current".
Re: France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
#6Patricians want to control the plebs. Yawn. Wake me up when humans are not power hungry.
Re: France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
> actual The word you're looking for is "current". Let's have a little patience. We're getting rid of Sarkozy soon enough, but we need to find a suitable replacement. There's the rub.
> The word you're looking for is "current". "Actual" is a synonym for "current".
Sure, it's a synonym, but usage dictates it's incorrect to say "actual President" when you mean "current President", whereas "actual situation" is okay. The original context the writer is most certainly French where actuel means current, however the usage generates a false cognate.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> actual The word you're looking for is "current". Let's have a little patience. We're getting rid of Sarkozy soon enough, but we need to find a suitable replacement. There's the rub.
> The word you're looking for is "current". "Actual" is a synonym for "current".
Re: France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The word you're looking for is "current". "Actual" is a synonym for "current".
no it's not? http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/actual
In french, it's actually (!) more common to say "actuel" than "courrant". So I'm guessing the OP speaks french as a native language...?
Re: France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> actual The word you're looking for is "current". Let's have a little patience. We're getting rid of Sarkozy soon enough, but we need to find a suitable replacement. There's the rub.
> The word you're looking for is "current". "Actual" is a synonym for "current".
It's one of those instances where a synonym isn't actually (ha!) equivalent, and doesn't quite work the same way in the sentence. In this case, 'actual President' would contrast with some fake President running around, whereas 'current President' contrasts with the upcoming President.