France tried to push two time such a law (with the difference that it was for viewing terrorist website "regularly")[0]. This law was banned two time by the Con

France tried to push two time such a law (with the difference that it was for viewing terrorist website "regularly")[0]. This law was banned two time by the Conseil Constitutionnel (equivalent of the supreme court I think)[1]. But now EU is trying to put a "terrorist-filter"[2], which, I guess, our law-maker are probably heavily pushing for. Such a proposition might be able to pass through the Conseil Constitutionnel, since banning website (in France) has already been approved and is in place (some website like The Pirate Bay cannot be accessed "normally" in France). This should really worry us. The definition of terrorism or extremism has always been blurry (see for example the situation with the PKK). And, in any case, it has been shown many time again that this kind of measure could be misused, either intentionally, or by technical ignorance (banning a shared IP). The Australian censorship is a good example of that[3]. All these laws have been also proven ineffective at best and are just a form of power-grab by authorities. A prime example of that is, yet again, France, where most of the "anti-terrorsime" laws passed after the Paris attack have mostly been used against various political militant and, right now, against the protest going on with the gilets jaunes (See for example, the use of emergency state against the COP21 militant [4]) This will not stop, fear has always been used as an excuse to grab more power. Thats why it's important that we keep supporting and funding association like La Quadrature du Net[5] that fight against this kind of laws. [0] (french) https://www.legavox.fr/blog/murielle-cahen/nouveau-delit-consultation-sites-djihadistes-23119.htm https://www.legavox.fr/blog/murielle-cahen/nouveau-delit-con... [1] (french) https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/sites/default/files/as/root/bank_mm/decisions/2017682qpc/2017682qpc_ccc.pdf https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/sites/default/files/a... [2] (english) https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/terrorist-upload-filters/ https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/terrorist-upload-filters/ [3] (english) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia#Notable_examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral... [4] (french) https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2015/11/27/les-militants-de-la-cop21-cible-de-l-etat-d-urgence_4818885_3224.html https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2015/11/27/les-milita... [5] (english) https://www.laquadrature.net/en/ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/