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2005-11-10 Europe

Interesting tibdbit 2 : French gvt censors the internet

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-11-10 08:17|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2005-11-10 09:38|| Front Page Top

#2 That was France 3 public teevee, but private Canal+/I-TÃ©lÃ© 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|| 2005-11-10 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Humm, it seems I can't access the http://www.islam-danger.com/ website anymore...

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-11-10 11:28|| 2005-11-10 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 False alarm about ID.

Funny, and french media-related too : there was two break-ins at the respective offices of the newspaper & magazine Â«FigaroÂ» and Â« Le PointÂ». 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|| 2005-11-10 12:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-11-10 16:08|| Front Page Top

#6 So is this true or not?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2005-11-10 16:19|| 2005-11-10 16:19|| Front Page Top

#7 DNS overide. Pure and simple if they can't see it in France.

Posted by 3dc 2005-11-10 16:27|| 2005-11-10 16:27|| Front Page Top

#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 OÂ´ Doom 2005-11-10 16:33|| 2005-11-10 16:33|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-11-10 16:52|| Front Page Top

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