Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The National Council of digital set Wednesday

The National Council of digital (CNN) must be installed on Wednesday 27 April by President Nicolas Sarkozy. This organization's stated objective to avoid future failures in the management of specific issues related to Internet by the government, through dialogue with the sector. Eighteen persons should sit on this advisory body, the daily La Tribune.

These are mainly representatives of telecom operators, e-commerce, software publishers and companies like Deezer, Yellow Pages or auFeminin. com. CNN, which should meet directly with the president three to four times a year, will meet for the first time on Wednesday, including its president elect.

"The genesis of this advice is probably all the laws that have occurred in recent years digital" as Hadopi supposed to fight against illegal downloading, told Agence France-Presse Giuseppe de Martino, Director Legal Dailymotion, who will serve on CNN. He also said that during an informal meeting to prepare the establishment of the board Friday at the Elysee Palace, Nicolas Sarkozy had said that "Hadopi have been implemented otherwise (...) if players like us had been a little more listening.

" COMPOSITION CRITICIZED The latest disagreement between the digital sector and the authorities has crystallized around a tax on advertising on the web voted by Parliament last fall. This "Google tax" was subsequently suspended by the government in extremis after causing an outcry among French Internet players.

They were outraged because it applied only to sites and online ad French, and therefore completely missed its target proclaimed, namely global giants of the Web as Google and Facebook, tax implemented at the abroad who do not pay taxes in France. Some opponents of the council have already dubbed "the MEDEF's digital.

"Despite the issue (issue opinions on net neutrality, protection of privacy, illegal content ...), civil society is excluded from this body," said Alain Bazot, president of the UFC-Que Choisir . The Union of the independent press information online (SPIIL) also stresses that "the composition of CNN, if it were to be confirmed, is very far from the recommendations of the report by Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet at the request of government itself." It "had advised an open assembly, composed of elected and not appointed.

He also advocated the inclusion of members of parliament," recalls SPIIL.

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