France requiring ISP's to filter content harmful to minors?
Naje Jeval, a reader of the blog, alerted me to this notice.
Apparently, the alarm was sounded by the C'est l'association Iris that (paraphrased) "... the debate on the filtering of the contents on Internet would begin again.."
According to this Yahoo! News France article (ran through the Alta Vista Babelfish translator, so I have paraphrased):The new proposal would require [ISPs] put in/near all their subscribers, in an automatic way, the technical devices powerful and activated by "defect" [keyword or URL alarm filtering] which make it possible to restrict accèss with the services of communication to the public on line putting in danger the minors. A decree in the Council d'Etat lays down the methods of this article. The significant issue, this time around, is especially the concept "activation" by filter alarm", which goes well beyond the means of simply supplying "software of parental control chosen, installed, configured by the parents in function their concerns for their children."
Although the debate about mandatory content filtering in France is not a new one, it appears that France is edging ever closer to their own "Firewall of France".
posted by Fergie @ 9/17/2005 10:42:00 AM
1 Comments:
France, the freedom land ... well, under a big national firewall as you say ! Protecting minors is surely a main challenge, but will we have to loose liberty to win it ? I would'nt like ...
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