via: wired news
French prosecutors shut down several blogs this week and arrested bloggers suspected of inciting violence, as officials moved to squelch riots that have rocked France for more than 10 days.
this reminds me of a chinese blogger in australia, who threathened to kill a chinese diplomat defector there, was later questioned by an austalian congressman and shut down his blog by himself for fear that he might be prosecuted.
fons of the china herald asked and commented:
Wonder what is going to happen to the French bloggers who called for violence and 'organized' riots in French cities. Just like cars, weblogs are tools. You can do good and evil with those tools, webloggers are not by definition not guilty of any crime.
there are always tradeoffs between the freedom of individual and the freedom of the public. and we need something to define when and why one of them outweight the other, we need specific laws adn regulations to tell us when and why a blog need to be shut down.
well, put it this way, a chinese blogger says, "an internet with GFW is better than no internet", and i will say, "a GFW with clearly defined regualtions is better than a willful GFW without any prescribed regulations"