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05-26-2009, 06:20 PM
France 2012 ? La trouille bleue ?
May 26, 2012
French people are scared to be seen looking at the internet in case they are thought to be reading anti-government blog sites, says a blogger in the European nation.
Yet internet blogs have become a popular source of information in France after the Sarközy government imposed media censorship laws on the country’s mainstream media outlets.
The blogger – who insists on anonymity – told Radio Iceland Pacific Beat program that it is not just bloggers themselves who are careful about being identified by the government, but blog readers as well.
He says feedback from readers indicates that many people in France are worried about simply being observed at a computer accessing the internet.
“One of the comments that’s interesting is that some has said to me, ‘keep it short, we’re going in to read your blog in particular during work times and we can’t be seen to be surfing the net.”
The reader had continued: “We wan’t to get information in the quickest way possible, in an easy way to digest.”
The blogger says people who read the blogs should be cautious after some lawyers were outed as anti-government bloggers and were taken in for questioning last week.
“(The government) are certainly, I think, very interested in who is doing what and where the information is coming from and certainly what their sources are.
“And we saw that with the two lawyers, they have been targeted and their material have been confiscated that there is cause that there is something to be able to do our work.”
Internet security specialist, Patrick Gray, says there are some software tools on the internet which might help blog readers in France avoid detection.
http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/story.htm?id=18112
France ? Not Yet. Just wait. The situation now is Fiji. Keep an eye.
May 26, 2012
French people are scared to be seen looking at the internet in case they are thought to be reading anti-government blog sites, says a blogger in the European nation.
Yet internet blogs have become a popular source of information in France after the Sarközy government imposed media censorship laws on the country’s mainstream media outlets.
The blogger – who insists on anonymity – told Radio Iceland Pacific Beat program that it is not just bloggers themselves who are careful about being identified by the government, but blog readers as well.
He says feedback from readers indicates that many people in France are worried about simply being observed at a computer accessing the internet.
“One of the comments that’s interesting is that some has said to me, ‘keep it short, we’re going in to read your blog in particular during work times and we can’t be seen to be surfing the net.”
The reader had continued: “We wan’t to get information in the quickest way possible, in an easy way to digest.”
The blogger says people who read the blogs should be cautious after some lawyers were outed as anti-government bloggers and were taken in for questioning last week.
“(The government) are certainly, I think, very interested in who is doing what and where the information is coming from and certainly what their sources are.
“And we saw that with the two lawyers, they have been targeted and their material have been confiscated that there is cause that there is something to be able to do our work.”
Internet security specialist, Patrick Gray, says there are some software tools on the internet which might help blog readers in France avoid detection.
http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/story.htm?id=18112
France ? Not Yet. Just wait. The situation now is Fiji. Keep an eye.