So France had a little problem with some Islamic car burning and various acts of Jihad, which they had been trying desperately to hide from the world. Unfortunately, the “celebrating” by the “youths” who all happened to belong to the “religion of peace” just happened to be caught on tape by many amateur videographers and journalists and then broadcast throughout the internet for the whole world to see.
We simply can’t have that. It’s tough work keeping reality a secret from the masses of sheep, so we must pass some sort of law that prevents this sort of thing. So, according to Peter Sayer of IDG News Service and reported by Macworld.com:
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.
But wait. You think that’s bad?
The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information if they adhere to certain rules
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This is the sort of thing all of us are used to seeing from the French, but this would never happen in the U.S., right? Wrong.
Apparently - as this story shows - photojournalist Carlos Miller found out that Miami seems to be really sweet on the idea.
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