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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:01PM
I would like to think it is because we have freedom of speech - which means the bigots get to air their ugliness for everyone to see and then be ridiculed and shamed for it.
Unless you are considered an acceptable target [wikia.com]. #killallmen [twitter.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @07:58PM
don't think these are radical feminists calling for all men to die:
https://twitter.com/VodkaMag/status/596038405122850816 [twitter.com]
https://twitter.com/bix_dr/status/596033459727958016 [twitter.com]
Also, feminists can troll too
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @11:40PM
No they just want to marginalize men and make their life bad.
It's about turning tables not equality.