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Spanish internet users go to the front line

Submitted by pi on 30 April, 2008 - 18:20.

In Spain, the project of Nicolas Sarkozy to extend at European level flexible response (three strikes approach) make a noise.

The spanish press informs the public about the emergence of an international opposition. El Pais, 20minutos, and others published articles about La Quadrature du Net.

Squaring the Net in Washington Internet Daily

Submitted by pi on 1 April, 2008 - 02:46.

Reproduced by permission of Warren Communications News, Inc., 800-771-9202, www.warren-news.com

A new French citizens' lobbying group wants public debate on Internet-related regulation affecting human rights and freedoms, one of its organizers told us Friday. "Squaring the Net" (La quadrature du net) hopes to help spur a "societal movement which we feel is ready to develop," said Philippe Aigrain, director of the Society for Public Information Spaces.