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posted by takyon on Wednesday May 06 2015, @12:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the qui-surveille-les-gardiens dept.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité? Non! At least no "liberté" if the lower house of the French parliament has anything to do with it. The New York Times is reporting:

The lower house of the French Parliament overwhelmingly approved a sweeping intelligence bill that, if it passes in the upper house, would give the government broad surveillance powers with little judicial oversight.

The measure, which must still pass the Senate, was a strong reaction to the security threat vividly displayed by the January terrorist attacks in and around Paris, including at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and at a kosher grocery that left 17 people dead.

The bill would give French intelligence services the right to gather potentially unlimited electronic data from Internet communications, and to tap cellphones and capture text messages. It would force Internet providers to comply with government requests to sift through subscribers' communications.

More coverage of "France's Patriot Act": BBC, NPR, The Guardian, Washington Post, France 24, and TechCrunch.

 
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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @01:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @01:42AM (#179333)

    French Niggers have the thickest dicks. You like that when they're stretching your shitter wide open.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:05AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:05AM (#179338) Homepage

    Why the French have the largest penis sizes in Europe [alphadesigner.com] has not yet been scientifically determined, but you may be correct in that France now contains more Africans* than Sweden or even Britain.

    * Large penises

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by wisnoskij on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:29AM

      by wisnoskij (5149) <reversethis-{moc ... ksonsiwnohtanoj}> on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:29AM (#179345)

      They might not have the largest penises, but they are the biggest dicks, it has been scientifically proven.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 06 2015, @11:32PM

      by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 06 2015, @11:32PM (#179703) Journal

      Because the womb finds the owners of native penises so repulsive when i comes to social manners so it hides longer and longer away from the point of entry. And then the native penises must adapt by natural selection ;)