[governance] French "Three Strikes" Law Gets New Life

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  Seems yet again the EU council is finding it more difficult
to come to any consensus on Internet policy and law.  Typical.
Just as typical, it seems that the French have yet again lead to this
utter chaotic confusion.

See:
A little over a week ago we discussed
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/23/1952248&tid=95
the EU's forbidding of disconnecting users from the Internet. But even
after having passed with an 88% approval in the European Parliament, and
http://web20.telecomtv.com/pages/?newsid=43957&id=f387e4d7-6312-4d6a-9fdf-dceb0e8dd572&page=1
passing through the European Commission, it was all undone last week.
The European Council, led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy,
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/European-Council-agrees-on-new-version-of-the-Telecom-Package--/112095
removed the amendment before passing the Telecom package. This means
that there's now nothing stopping France's controversial 'three strikes'
law from going into effect. What hope is there for a 'parliament' where
near-unanimous agreement can be completely undone so easily?"

Regards,

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