I have very divided feelings about these very divided French initiatives. On the one hand, I rather admire this bold attempt by a national government to defend and extend its national interests on the Internet. [...]

[...] On the other hand, check out the keen way that the French are also cyber-arming themselves for the eruption of utter anarchy. Not HADOPI, but the vastly more sinister LOPPSI. Yup, French cops sneaking into your laptop. [...]

The law will give the French police the possibility to physically or remotely install spying software to listen to electronic communications and introduces the Internet filtering by administrative decision. [...]

The French Government will always be able to extend the target by a simple decree. [...]

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/06/meanwhile-somewhere-in-fr...