|
MEPs adopted Article 4 of the Loppsi 2, which allows the Government to filter Internet Corsan © Olivier / Le Parisien / MAXPPP
The exchanges were stretched to the Assembly on Wednesday night, where the atmosphere was reminiscent surrounding the adoption of anti-piracy law Hadopi. In a packed chamber just a few technophiles MPs from all sides were fighting against a legislative machine that seems to have somewhat excited. Section 4 of the Bill Loppsi 2, text tote on Homeland Security, was finally adopted. It will allow the government to filter the Internet using a blacklist issued by the Ministry of Interior, without the intervention of the judiciary. A measure that the government justify the need to better fight against child pornography sites and cybercrime in general.
The opposition as a whole have adopted a posture anti-Loppsi and the majority is not met behind the text of the government. "There is no left-right divide on this issue," said Laure de La Point.fr to Raudière, UMP member of Eure-et-Loir. Strongly opposed to Internet filtering, as well as a handful of MPs from all sides technophiles, it deems "inefficient" even if "all members are naturally agree with the objective consensus" to fight against child pornography. Still it did not vote against this article.
The ministry will provide the blacklist
The exasperation is shared by Lionel Tardy, UMP alone (Haute-Savoie) who voted against Article 4. The sites are pedophiles, according to him, "a very small audience, but extremely motivated, unfortunately, who will not hesitate to do the research necessary to find these sites." "The filtering of any kind, there will be nothing." According to one who had already opposed the web laws, "we must act at the source, where are the servers. It is possible through international agreements, since we know the countries that pose problem ".
These defections of some members of the majority annoy the defenders of Article 4. I confess that I find hard to understand some reluctance," exclaims Eric Ciotti, Rapporteur of the law."The Ministry of the Interior shall transmit to Internet service providers a blacklist," he said during the debates , because it is "the only way to block these sites hosted abroad. Finally, Patrick Bloche summarizes the ire of opponents of the text.The elect, who is one of four Socialist deputies present for the vote, expressed surprise: "This article is not talking about victims or perpetrators, those who make these images and movies. It need to hunt them. He regretted that the Assembly has not voted for the reinstatement of the judiciary, because "without the safeguards of the judge, there is a risk of collateral damage", that is to say that sites not Pedophiles are also filtered.
Device ineffective abroad
Experiments blacklists abroad have all been flops. The worst being the Australian list, whose contents had been unveiled in March 2009 by WikiLeaks. Of the 2,000 child pornography sites, supposedly the only ones targeted by the law, it was unexpected of places. So poker sites online videos from YouTube or the personal page of a dentist were filtered.Just as some pages of Wikileaks, which became politically inconvenient for the Australian government.
Recent events related to the hosting of Wikileaks in France are fearing the worst associations. The Minister of Industry and the Digital Economy Eric Besson wanted to force the hand of OVH , the French host Wikileaks, that he suspend the site specializes in the revelation of confidential documents. With Article 4 of the Loppsi 2, the Minister could he filtered Wikileaks in France? "Not sure," Patrick Bloche tempers. For his part, Laura La Raudière does not drift, but "only time will tell" if the fears are unfounded.What is certain, according to Patrick Bloche is that "if we spent as much technical effort against child porn sites as against Wikileaks today, one could almost eradicate them."
_________________
Admit Nothing, Deny EVERYTHING, DEMAND Pr00f!
|
