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| Interesting tibdbit 2 : French gvt censors the internet |
| 2005-11-10 |
| When the state of emergency was passed (note Dhimminique Galouzeau "de Villepin" never even used the expression), it was clearly said there wouldn't be any censorship involved, like the law allows. That wouldn't have been necessary anyway, the french msm are gladly self-censoring (see this link in french, about the way torched churches were not mentioned in online french press, or when it briefly was, it was later supressed)... Still, the internet remained relatively free, and acted as the conservative blogosphere in the USA. But... Starting in late 11/09 afternoon, right after the 1955 law was reactivated, french web users found they couldn't access the most popular "islamophobic" websites, http://www.france-echos.com/, http://www.occidentalis.com/index.php, and http://www.coranix.com/ (plus possibly others). This was discussed on conservative french forums, and tech-savvy forumers found this was a systematic filtering by the french ISP (ALL of them, it seems) In fact, it could even be the "Emeraude" plan, in which during crisis time, internet traffic is redirected to military servers using filters and interception (tinfoil hat alert!, though this is certainly possible). Anyway, french user cannot access theses sites anymore, except by using a proxy. This is censorship, plain and simple. Note that french "moderate" muslim sites (complete with hidden jihad call, anti-french, anti-western/anti-US and antisemite prejudice,...), islamoleftist (such as the infamouis Radio-islam), and lefists websites still are freely acessible. The blocked sites are NOT neonazi, they are conservative and "islamophobic", but the french gvt has been very afraid of the internet, especially after the "Radikal Web" affair, a rightwing webring of anti-islam and anti-Shiraq websites, which was hounded by the "thought police" ("antiracist" & plain leftist hackers and orgs with contacts in french police), and later busted when there was a totally unrelated "attempted attempted" assassination agaisnt Our Dear Leader. Since then, the gvt has been pressuring islamophobic webmasters by suing them one after the other. This is only minor, but this needs to be known in the USA : *theses* are the people who wish to control the internet... |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #9 Seems access to websites is possible again. Sites owners say it wasn't a server failure nor an hacking, have no explanation, and are not willing to blame censorship... weird? Did all the forum people (including fat, useless myself) cried wolf? The techies at the Subversiv forum did all the DNS stuff and all (sounds very painful), and they were pretty sure it was tampered with, filtering from the ISP. Acess was normal from others countries, including Belgium for example, but not from a french PC, except with a proxy or an anonymizer. To be classed either in "False alarms" or in "Things that make you go paranoid"... I should have been more cautious and added a "?" in the title. Glad the sites are back, though. No, it wasn't a publicity stunt :-). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-11-10 16:52 |
| #8 The real reason the TRANZIs and UN want control of the Master DNS servers. SO they can pull off stuff like this. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-11-10 16:33 |
| #7 DNS overide. Pure and simple if they can't see it in France. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-11-10 16:27 |
| #6 So is this true or not? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2005-11-10 16:19 |
| #5 5089 : I can get into the islam-danger.com site. Alta Vista Translation : "The goal of this site is to propose all the resources necessary so that each one can seize the true nature of Islam." There is also a link to an article that Omar Sharif has been threatened with death by the Cicadas. Alta Vista translation : "The actor Omar Sharif (Laurence of Arabia...), of true name Michael Shalhoub, has been just threatened of died by an Internet site held by close relations of network Al-Qaeda." |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-11-10 16:08 |
| #4 False alarm about ID. Funny, and french media-related too : there was two break-ins at the respective offices of the newspaper & magazine «Figaro» and « Le Point». Computers were stolen, including one belonging to an investigative journalist writng about public health issues and notably asbestos, and one belonging to... the new girlfriend of Nicolas Sarkozy! Lol! Police seems to think theses are not "random" break-ins, but targeted ones. Coincidence? Or should I be paranoid? ;-) source : http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=337398 |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-11-10 12:05 |
| #3 Humm, it seems I can't access the http://www.islam-danger.com/ website anymore... |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-11-10 11:28 |
| #2 That was France 3 public teevee, but private Canal+/I-Télé and TF1/LCI also announced they would "think" about the effects of a, "overly intensive" coverage (and TF1 shutted down its popular forum, because things were getting out of hand, and issued a statement by the trostkysr "antiracist" org Sos-racisme). Minor skirmishes in the info/culture war. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-11-10 09:47 |
| #1 I read a article that showed how French TV is censoring the riot news, even to the point of not showing burning cars and buildings (Canal Plus?). Then the French press themselves were getting pissy because they thought the foreign news services were emphasizing the riot coverage too much. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-11-10 09:38 |