French President Nicolas Sarkozy is holding a summit in Paris this week with some of the world’s most powerful online luminaries. Netizens worry that Sarkozy’s motives might be suspect — and that he could leave a legislative mess like the one in Germany. […]
The summit is « a farce, » says Jérémie Zimmermann, the cofounder and spokesman of the advocacy group « La Quadrature du Net, » noting that Sarkozy has made it clear that he wants to impose his authoritarian ideas about regulation on his G-8 colleagues.
La Quadrature du Net, together with other Net activists and initiatives, already called for protests in advance of the summit. Under the slogan « G-8 vs. Internet, » the group argues that the world’s governments are « uniting to control and censor the Internet. »
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