The next G8 summit in Deauville, in May, will not ultimately dedicated to the regulation of the Internet. It was the wish of Nicolas Sarkozy, had announced the entourage of the president in early January, but ultimately this issue will be discussed at an informal session in May, before a possible meeting of the G20 in Cannes devoted copyright.The bottom of the presidential address has also changed slightly during the month: "We will put on the table a central issue of Internet civilized, I'm not regulated the Internet, I say civilized Internet" , he insisted on his wishes to the world of education and culture. If the expression of "civilized Internet" is regularly appeared in government rhetoric in recent years it is evoked without distinction to criticize the revelations of Wikileaks and the fight against illegal downloading.
But it is in a letter from President Sarkozy addressed his Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner revealed by the Quadrature du Net in October 2010 that the concept is described as the most explicit. "Issues related to Internet development are indeed a growing importance, both political, cultural, economic, industrial, security.
It is clear that both the nature, transnational, Internet that the strategic nature of these issues require further reflection and coordination. (...) This problem must be approached holistically, with concern to take into account all the interests involved and the goal of building a 'civilized Internet ".
A term popularized DURING THE DEBATE ON THE HADOPI By defining what are the principles of his "civilized Internet", President Sarkozy opposes the public position taken some months earlier by his foreign minister. In an article on Tech News Buzz. fr, in the month of May, Bernard Kouchner described the Internet as "the most formidable tool calving walls and borders that enclose." "I think a battle of ideas is involved between, on one side, proponents of Internet a universal, open, based on freedom of expression and association, on tolerance and respect for privacy and, on the other, those who would transform the Internet into a multiplicity of areas closed and locked at service plan, a propaganda and all forms of fanaticism, "he says.
If the letter of Nicolas Sarkozy sounds like a tune, the term" civilized Internet "is not a presidential monopoly. A From 2008, the term is regularly used by Franck Riester UMP, rapporteur of the bill Hadopi. "It is now in the National Assembly that it is to ensure that consumers, creators and hundreds of thousands of employees of the cultural industries can take advantage of the fabulous opportunities, cultural as well as economic, of Internet a more 'civilized', "he writes, for example in his parliamentary report.
A sentence taken almost word for word by Christine Albanel, Minister of Culture, in discussions on the text to the Assembly. In a speech in December 2010, his successor, Frederic Mitterrand, however, attempts to erase the most repressive aspects of the project. "Hadopi is an educational device, based on a graduated response, on warning messages sent to users.
It's not 'monitor and punish, but to control and guarantee, in other terms' civilize the Internet. " BLOCKING SITES But Christine Albanel, an Internet "civilized" is also stripped of its Internet content deemed offensive. In March 2009, a song by rapper Orelsan, entitled "Bitch," causing a controversy over his alleged sexist.
The culture minister then called television stations and websites to boycott the song. "This is fully consistent with the policy I want to lead towards a civilized Internet", explains it then. A view shared by Eric Besson, Minister of the digital economy: end of 2010, while the site Wikileaks began publishing American diplomatic telegrams, he asked that the hosting of a portion of the site is blocked in France.
"Wikileaks has no place in civilized Internet that we build," he says, so to justify his request - which will not happen. Popularized by the French government, the concept of "civilized Internet" is spreading elsewhere in Tech News Buzz: the powerful Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the American equivalent of the SACEM, began using the term in 2010, in the context of a lobbying campaign to get the blocking of websites deemed illegal.
However, the choice of this expression was somewhat unfortunate in 2006, a year before Nicolas Sarkozy to the "civilized Internet" his battle cry, the Chinese Ministry of Communications has launched a program poetically named "What the blow winds of a civilized Internet ". It provided the blocking by ISPs to Internet sites deemed immoral or policies.
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