Freedom Suppression in France
cn | 07 March, 2007 09:46It seems that France wants to reign in the use of video cameras by the general public. As posted on 27B Stroke 6:
France is making it illegal to shoot or distribute video of violent crimes, unless you're a professional journalist, IDG reports.
There's an update in the post at Stroke 6 quoting a post, apparently by a French journalist, on TechDirt stating that:
the story is bogus. The law includes an exemption for "when the recording or the diffusion results from the normal exercise of a profession devoted to inform the public or is carried out in order to be used as proof in justice."
This is, in essence, beside the point. The issue is that the French government is attempting to prevent its citizens from collecting, sharing, and distributing information. Ostensibly the intent may be stated as a protection of public safety or some such excuse, but once again the government is really saying that anything we can claim to lead to insecurity trumps any and all basic freedom.
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