Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Internet & Free Speech nailed down in France and Belgium

Author:	Emmanuel M. Décarie
Posted:	2/23/1999; 11:40:01 AM
Topic:	Internet & Free Speech nailed down in France and Belgium
Msg #:	3171
Prev/Next:	3170 / 3172

Forwarded from Grégoire Seither <gregoire@pobox.com>

You can find more here since the URL given for the Andy Oram article is not working yet:

http://www.cam.org/~emm/frenchcourt.html

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Altern org has closed down leaving 47.000 independent site owners homeless. But even more, over 12.000 home pages have been abruptly closed down by major ISPs in the followup to the court case that ruled that ISP are liable for the content of the pages they host on their server. ISPs are suddenly scared that lawyers will seize the opportunity and sue them. So they close down every page that might be a cause for a court case, be it political, society, adult....

Quietly, these last 15 days, freedom of expression has taken a severe beating in France.....

Here is an article in English explaining it all:

ACCESS AND ANONYMITY SEVERELY PUNISHED BY FRENCH COURT by Andy Oram American Reporter Correspondent

<http://www.oreilly.com/~andyo/ar/anonymity_snare.html>

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