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US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

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Re: US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

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I hereby fine Société Générale 8,000 bitcoins for violating the American constitution (never mind jurisdiction since they don't care for it either), notice duly served by posting this comment in a public forum and witnessed by whoever happens to read this.

Re: US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

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I hereby fine Société Générale 8,000 bitcoins for violating the American constitution (never mind jurisdiction since they don't care for it either), notice duly served by posting this comment in a public forum and witnessed by whoever happens to read this.

Submitted to the Court of Public Opinion

Re: US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

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I hereby fine Société Générale 8,000 bitcoins for violating the American constitution (never mind jurisdiction since they don't care for it either), notice duly served by posting this comment in a public forum and witnessed by whoever happens to read this.

Hereby notarized by a third-party.

Re: US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

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I don't understand how this court system can be so silly as to fail to recognize that it has no jurisdiction over someone. Isn't the question of jurisdiction one of the first steps in any court case?

Courts in France have never bothered about jurisdiction when it comes to the Internet. See [1] and [2], for e.g.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo!

[2] http://news.yahoo.com/french-court-google-must-drop-9-mosley...

Re: US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

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I hereby fine Société Générale 8,000 bitcoins for violating the American constitution (never mind jurisdiction since they don't care for it either), notice duly served by posting this comment in a public forum and witnessed by whoever happens to read this.

Why stop there? I fine them all of France. I now own France and they need to get off my lawn.

Re: US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

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I don't understand how this court system can be so silly as to fail to recognize that it has no jurisdiction over someone. Isn't the question of jurisdiction one of the first steps in any court case?

Maybe the French are fed up with US judges doing this all the time and this is some kind of revenge?
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