At a press conference expressed prominent representatives of non-government organizations and Web activists sharply criticized by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Internet-hyped eG8 summit meeting in French resort of Deauville Nobel. On the Action instrumental Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesman for the French organization Quadrature du Net, Lawrence Lessig was (founder of Creative Commons), Jean-François Julliard, (Secretary General of Reporters without Borders), the American journalist Jeff Jarvis and ICANN member Susan Crawford.

According to these people was “the Internet” is not at the meeting of statesmen represented in an appropriate manner. Companies, rights holders and governments were honored for their attempts to regulate the Internet scolded. “The eG8 Forum is a pane of frosted glass, behind which hides a disturbing alliance of governments that seek to control the Internet, and behind which hide some companies who profit from the restriction of freedoms on the Internet economic profit,” said La Quadrature du Net in a statement. The journalist Jeff Jarvis added that he “was afraid of those who are afraid of the Internet.”

EG8 the meeting described the gathering as a staging critics, who wanted to curry favor a government with no real connection to the Internet community, this, by showing himself in the company of some corporate executives from this sector to the public. In order to play the critic in part to the performances of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt.

According to the “World Day against Internet censorship” on 12 March report released by Reporters Without Borders “enemies of the Internet” (PDF) in about 60 states governments censor the Internet and track Internet users. These included in 2011 as in the previous two years, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. On the list of countries under observation, the activists had in the spring next to Venezuela and Libya with France for the first time taken an EU member.

The reason was mainly that there was the National Assembly in February in the second reading of the legislative package on-line “Loppsi 2″ (“Loi d’orientation et de programmation pour la performance de la sécurité intérieure”) agreed. Accordingly, the Home Office may now instruct among other providers without a court order to filter the websites of its customers for child pornography. The keywords for this is looking for a government agency without control by a court.

The ten dark Reporters Without Borders ranks countries labeled as “enemies of the Internet” one. The 16 other countries highlighted are under observation (image: ROG).

At a press conference expressed prominent representatives of non-government organizations and Web activists sharply criticized by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Internet-hyped eG8 summit meeting in French resort of Deauville Nobel. On the Action instrumental Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesman for the French organization Quadrature du Net, Lawrence Lessig was (founder of Creative Commons), Jean-François Julliard, [...]

At a press conference expressed prominent representatives of non-government organizations and Web activists sharply criticized by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Internet-hyped eG8 summit meeting in French resort of Deauville Nobel. On the Action instrumental Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesman for the French organization Quadrature du Net, Lawrence Lessig was (founder of Creative Commons), Jean-François Julliard, [...]

At a press conference expressed prominent representatives of non-government organizations and Web activists sharply criticized by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Internet-hyped eG8 summit meeting in French resort of Deauville Nobel. On the Action instrumental Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesman for the French organization Quadrature du Net, Lawrence Lessig was (founder of Creative Commons), Jean-François Julliard, [...]

At a press conference expressed prominent representatives of non-government organizations and Web activists sharply criticized by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Internet-hyped eG8 summit meeting in French resort of Deauville Nobel. On the Action instrumental Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesman for the French organization Quadrature du Net, Lawrence Lessig was (founder of Creative Commons), Jean-François Julliard, [...]

At a press conference expressed prominent representatives of non-government organizations and Web activists sharply criticized by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Internet-hyped eG8 summit meeting in French resort of Deauville Nobel. On the Action instrumental Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesman for the French organization Quadrature du Net, Lawrence Lessig was (founder of Creative Commons), Jean-François Julliard, [...]

At a press conference expressed prominent representatives of non-government organizations and Web activists sharply criticized by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Internet-hyped eG8 summit meeting in French resort of Deauville Nobel. On the Action instrumental Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesman for the French organization Quadrature du Net, Lawrence Lessig was (founder of Creative Commons), Jean-François Julliard, [...]

At a press conference expressed prominent representatives of non-government organizations and Web activists sharply criticized by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Internet-hyped eG8 summit meeting in French resort of Deauville Nobel. On the Action instrumental Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesman for the French organization Quadrature du Net, Lawrence Lessig was (founder of Creative Commons), Jean-François Julliard, [...]