What the French 'Civilised Internet' Looks Like

If this becomes reality it will seriously set back the value of the internet, its freedom of speech and privacy. It doesnt matter that it is "just" one country. Its a western country and this mindset of censorship and control by such a government worries me. Alot.

Re: What the French 'Civilised Internet' Looks Like

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Post by gorog » Tue, Jun 21, 2011, 2:36 PM UTC

VPN will become the norm. Internet access will be 30€ for the ISP + 5 € for the VPN. Not that much of a big deal for the citizen, more worrying for Paris as a tech scene.

Re: What the French 'Civilised Internet' Looks Like

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Post by maurits » Tue, Jun 21, 2011, 2:42 PM UTC

gorog wrote: post #5

VPN will become the norm. Internet access will be 30€ for the ISP + 5 € for the VPN. Not that much of a big deal for the citizen, more worrying for Paris as a tech scene.

Interesting package deal, as the French also have a pretty stringent anti piracy law.

Other side effect, assuming that the VPN is fully encrypted and the server is in a, shall we say more liberal country, is that it will become more easy to pirate things for the average user.

Re: What the French 'Civilised Internet' Looks Like

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Post by jbrennan » Tue, Jun 21, 2011, 2:43 PM UTC

It sets a bad precedent, and unfortunately it's not the only country to do so (or consider it). When I was younger, I had always dreamed of living briefly in France or maybe Australia at some point in my life, but both countries now see to either enforce strict censorship, or are on the verge of doing so.

I live in Canada, and it wouldn't shock me if our Conservative government did the same, but it still saddens me nonetheless.

I don't keep up on French politics/culture very much, but this move does surprise me, given their Revolutionary history.

Re: What the French 'Civilised Internet' Looks Like

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Post by iampims » Tue, Jun 21, 2011, 2:49 PM UTC

As a french citizen living in the US, I’m sad to hear that the French government is proving itself even more ridicule than it already was. Sad.

Re: What the French 'Civilised Internet' Looks Like

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Post by cbailey » Tue, Jun 21, 2011, 2:49 PM UTC

Similar to how the DoHS is seizing domains, and their screwup that resulted in 84,000 wrongly seized domains.

Re: What the French 'Civilised Internet' Looks Like

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Post by csomar » Tue, Jun 21, 2011, 2:57 PM UTC

Am I missing some point here? When Internet was censored in Tunisia, we would use proxies, https, sites like vtunnels... This became casual stuff even for the non-techie. So what's the point of censorship? Making access to the web a little bit harder? If you censor a video on Youtube, someone else can upload it to Facebook and watch it through HTTPS and diffuse it to many people.

Aren't (the French Gov. and other Govs.) aware of that? If so, what's the point of censorship?