France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship

Re:France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship by tluyben2 on Sunday May 22, 2011 @04:24AM (#2572902)

Italy + France trying to get some of glory back they once had. Wanting to have the success Germany has had these past years. Problem is that Germans like quality and working while the French, Italians, Spanish, Portugese and Greek do not. The latter countries protest against unemployment (???), higher pensions ages and higher taxes. They waste time instead of working for their countries to get better. Then get in a few corrupt presidents who like to be popular instead of running/saving their countries (give me Merkel any day over those imbeciles in FR/IT/ES). France needs to do something to get it's former glory back, so yeah, why not try to get 'control' over the internet?

Disclaimer: I live in NL/FR/ES, not in Germany. I spent a lot of time in all 4, although my main country is NL; the Spanish and French are just lazy. Nothing else to say about it; they really do not want to work, just maintain their level of comfort. Come on; protesting unemployment? They want cushy jobs from the government in government run facilities so they cannot get fired. What crazy attitude is that? /endrant

Edit: downvoters; reply and tell what's wrong with this; I live(d) in all these countries; I know the people and I know the mindset. Most inhabitants agree with these sentiments. Maybe you (hopefully you live in one?) don't, but you can have the decency to reply he?

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Re:France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship by dexen on Sunday May 22, 2011 @07:10AM (#2573060)

Your contribution sounds like repeating common stereotypes. Now we all know stereotypes often have a grain of truth to them, but nonetheless it's useless to use them as argumentats.

At any rate, protesting unemployment can be understood in various ways. Suppose the protester's postulates were: less taxation on small business, simplier laws to ease running small businesses, wide-ranging education on running own business, a bit of import/export protection -- now that'd make some sense, right?

The thing about unemployment is that you can't just stand up and work on something and then sell it -- aside of labor (what you have), you need capital (both liquid assets and infrastructure) and enought knowledge to pull bargaining with (parts, materials) vendors and customers as well as to navigate the legal framework.

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Re:France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship by mattmanser on Sunday May 22, 2011 @07:04AM (#2573053)

It's xenophobic, that's why.

Just because you've lived there doesn't make it any better.

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