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This is great news for internet freedom.

France's highest court has inflicted an embarrassing blow to President Sarkozy by cutting the heart out of a law that was supposed to put France in the forefront of the fight against piracy on the internet.

The Constitutional Council declared access to the internet to be a basic human right, directly opposing the key points of Mr Sarkozy's law, passed in April, which created the first internet police agency in the democratic world.

The strongly-worded decision means that Mr Sarkozy's scheme has backfired and inadvertently boosted those who defend the free-for-all culture of the web.

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Zuma June 11, 2009 - 2:44pm
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this is a huge story

and it makes me sad that France is leading the way after American courts have punted a decade's worth of opportunities to set down the right precedents on Internet law.
In 2009, Internet access = freedom of speech, freedom of commerce, freedom to assemble, etc etc.
I've been consistently baffled by the inability of most American "progressives" to grasp this truth and to write off Internet issues as a fringe matter.
Same story with the endless drug war.

Nat Wilson Turner June 11, 2009 - 8:32pm
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