French Internet piracy law defeated in parliament
in.reuters.com
in.reuters.com
In France, we have something called the "conseil constitutionnel" which checks that every law voted by the parliament is in accordance with our constitution. This law violates a lot of basic rights. For example, the "presomption d'innoncence" guaranties that people can't be arrested without proofs, and that they don't have to prove that they're not guilty; the government has to prove that they are.
That's another way of saying: kill the Internet.
This is still a nice thing. It's letting some time to the people who are against this law to organize themselves and inform people about the obvious constitutional violations of this law.