{"id":16578,"date":"2010-10-12T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T15:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=16578"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:20:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:20:40","slug":"sarkozy-france-censorship-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=16578","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy calls for web censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent visit to the Pope, President of France <a title=\"BBC News: Profile: Nicolas Sarkozy\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/3673102.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Sarkozy<\/a> <a title=\"\u00c9lys\u00e9e: Discours de M. le Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique au Vatican (French)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/president\/les-actualites\/discours\/2010\/discours-de-m-le-president-de-la-republique-au.9803.html\" target=\"_blank\">remarked<\/a> that <a title=\"Connexion: Regulate internet says Sarkozy\" href=\"http:\/\/connexionfrance.com\/Sarkozy-control-internet-immorality-pope-12150-view-article.html\" target=\"_blank\">greater regulation of the internet was needed<\/a>.\u00a0 President Sarkozy stated that &#8220;regulating the internet to correct the excesses and abuses that arise from the total absence of rules is a moral imperative&#8221; while making a speech to the Embassy of France to the Holy See.<\/p>\n<p>This pronouncement is <a title=\"Zero Paid: French Pres: Increased Net Regulation is a &quot;Moral Imperative&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zeropaid.com\/news\/90997\/french-pres-increased-inet-regulation-is-moral-imperative\/\" target=\"_blank\">not the first indication<\/a> of the President&#8217;s aim of regulating the internet. He <a title=\"Numeria: Nicolas Sarkozy d\u00e9fend l'action d'Hadopi lors de l'op\u00e9ration Cin\u00e9-Lyc\u00e9e (French)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.numerama.com\/magazine\/16983-nicolas-sarkozy-defend-l-action-d-hadopi-lors-de-l-operation-cine-lycee.html\" target=\"_blank\">described internet piracy as &#8220;looting&#8221; <\/a>in a <a title=\"\u00c9lys\u00e9e: Allocution de Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique relative \u00e0 l'op\u00e9ration Cin\u00e9 Lyc\u00e9e (French)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/president\/les-actualites\/discours\/2010\/allocution-du-president-de-la-republique-relative.9780.html\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> made while visiting Jean-Baptiste Corot.\u00a0 Critics say President Sarkozy&#8217;s desire to regulate the internet is born out of fear and a desire for control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent visit to the Pope, President of France Nicolas Sarkozy remarked that greater regulation of the internet was needed.\u00a0 President Sarkozy stated that &#8220;regulating the internet to correct the excesses and abuses that arise from the total absence of rules is a moral imperative&#8221; while making a speech to the Embassy of France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585,581],"tags":[103,7375,571,211,14548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16578"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79307,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions\/79307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}