"From now on, any person who habitually consults websites that advocate terrorism or that call for hate and violence will be punished"
Who defines "habitually", "advocates Terrorism" "call for hate and Violence"?
These terms and phrases are so overtly broad that a person visiting Reddit could easily qualify.
If the French govt. really moves a law along these lines, they would have taken a giant step away from Freedom towards Govt. Censorship of the worst kind.
I suspect this is just some pre-election bluster from Sarko to bump up his bad numbers. If and when this gets to the Law making stage, France needs a SOPA-style movement to kill this dead.
He's probably going to use it as an excuse to suppress his Lepeniste enemies, even though they had nothing to do with it. They were pretty careful to call for the suppression of "hate" in general, not Al-Qaeda or anything that has to do with this gunman in particular. Maybe this doesn't translate well but in English, "hate" is a term of abuse for right-wing attitudes.
Who defines "habitually", "advocates Terrorism" "call for hate and Violence"?
These terms and phrases are so overtly broad that a person visiting Reddit could easily qualify.
If the French govt. really moves a law along these lines, they would have taken a giant step away from Freedom towards Govt. Censorship of the worst kind.
I suspect this is just some pre-election bluster from Sarko to bump up his bad numbers. If and when this gets to the Law making stage, France needs a SOPA-style movement to kill this dead.