{"id":29504,"date":"2015-05-05T17:27:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=29504"},"modified":"2015-05-05T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:27:45","slug":"post-charlie-hebdo-france-votes-internet-surveillance-law-relinquishes-liberte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/05\/post-charlie-hebdo-france-votes-internet-surveillance-law-relinquishes-liberte\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Charlie Hebdo France votes through Internet surveillance law, relinquishes libert\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/P1200863_resultat1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"P1200863_resultat1-1024x1024\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A photo from the May 4th protest aginst the<\/em>\u00a0Loi sur Renseignement<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nFrance&#8217;s national assembly has voted in favor of the\u00a0<em>Projet de Loi sur Renseignement<\/em>, the controversial bill which creates a legal framework around\u00a0illicit tapping into meta data communications\u00a0from internet-enabled devices &#8211; the law passed 438-86.<br \/>\nHighly regarded as the French equivalent of the US Patriot Act, enacted in a post 9-11 context where vengence trumped civil liberties (63% of French citizens said they were in favor of the bill last month &#8211; cf <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesechos.fr\/politique-societe\/societe\/0212267457-projet-de-loi-renseignement-63-des-francais-pour-une-limitation-les-libertes-1110793.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LesEchos<\/a>), France finds itself in an oddly Bush-esque environment: an unfavorable president, a country with a wounded ego &amp; increasing unemployment &#8211; all of which has led many to get behind a law that, in any other environment, would get suppressed by France&#8217;s\u00a0<em>libert\u00e9, egalit\u00e9, fraternit\u00e9 <\/em>mentality<em>.<\/em><br \/>\nVocal opponents took to twitter to share their reactions:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/nitot\/status\/595603003027103744<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/SecurityDbase\/status\/595606886948438016<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/laparisiennelib\/status\/595604609575555072<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/hfiguiere\/status\/595610545279148033<br \/>\nWhile there are still a few steps for the bill to get ratified &#8211; approval by the president, approval by the Constitutional Council &#8211; the two bodies have already had an active role in the bill&#8217;s preparation, and so it\u00a0is unlikely\u00a0the outcome will change.<br \/>\n<em>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mediapart.fr\/blog\/la-parisienne-liberee\/050515\/france-country-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mediapart<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo from the May 4th protest aginst the\u00a0Loi sur Renseignement\u00a0 France&#8217;s national assembly has voted in favor of the\u00a0Projet de Loi sur Renseignement, the controversial bill which creates a legal framework around\u00a0illicit tapping into meta data communications\u00a0from internet-enabled devices &#8211; the law passed 438-86. Highly regarded as the French equivalent of the US Patriot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":29514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}