The Internet

Twice in some weeks, it is a lot.

It is even too much when it is a question of naming as a reference the measures of censure on Internet applied by China.

It could make slowly have fun when DEPUTY UMP JACQUES MYARD declared to want to nationalise Internet. Chinese made it he argued then, while explaining that with a battery of very powerful computers it should be well possible to make the similar and to protect themselves from the "control" of the United States on networks.

When two weeks later, in New York Times, Bono names China in its turn in example, they do not smile any more. One if inqui te. A decade of distribution and of flight of musical files showed in obviousness that those who suffer from it are the artists written, December 2nd of this year, the singer of U2, but especially today businessman, creator of the bottom of investment Elevation Partners which notably keeps the economic magazine Forbesv. Leaving this official report, : watch contents on networks. We know by the noble effort of America to stop the p do-pornography, without speaking about the vile effort of China to suppress online dissidence, that it is perfectly possible to follow contents .

From no point of view, take as the model of China, qualified d by Reporters Without Borders for its  "leading role" in suppression on Internet (censure, surveillance, blockage, imprisonment, etc.), am defensible.

Recently we recalled the fears of Seth Schoen de l' EFF (Electronic Frontier Fondation) as for the sliding of the democratic countries towards Chinese practices in control and surveillance of Internet. If you look at main international practices in this domain [the control of Internet], you will see that China is fundamentally in accordance with international norm  . explained in 2006, Liu Zhengrong, a Chinese official charges with it of Internet, in New York Times.  Main objectives and modalities of application of our laws are principally the same  . that he could soon be right with regard to restrictions on Internet applied or wished, recently, by group of democratic countries.

Bono tries unsuccessfully to use the "vile" qualifier, reference is there. Dangerous. And unacceptable.