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This article is a sensationalist piece with very little content, the HN headline is misleading (the words "tax" and "monitor" do not appear anywhere on the targ

This article is a sensationalist piece with very little content, the HN headline is misleading (the words "tax" and "monitor" do not appear anywhere on the target webpage), and the comments are impassioned soapbox generalizations. This is HN at its worst.

rivd 15y ago
i must agree about the content. it could be more balanced. two more articles about the event: http://www.businessinsider.com/eg8-france http://www.businessinsider.com/eg8-france http://www.novaspivack.com/technology/the-e-g8-forum-unveiled http://www.novaspivack.com/technology/the-e-g8-forum-unveile... but i share the concerns of mr. spivack in the 2nd link. At first sight the conference seems a perfectly valid event about the internet at this moment. But Sarkozy is not a person who takes privacy very seriously.
keane 15y ago
haberman, you say the article is a sensationalist piece with very little content but I'd like to point out that the site linked to is more than a single blog post. Included are links to Boing Boing comments and discussion as well as links to pieces in newspapers in France and Italy. This article, posted to g8internet.com, from the Italian newspaper la Republicca, by internet reporter Arturo Di Corinto, provides more detailed arguments and a generous use of footnotes and citations - http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2011/05/01/news/sarkozy_g8_internet-15493094/?ref=HREC1-9 http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2011/05/01/news/sarkozy_... Hopefully more pieces like that will be found and added to the growing repository at the site. As far as headline, I took that from an article by Dominic Basulto which I submitted separately here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2581175 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2581175 - apologies for any confusion.

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This article is a sensationalist piece with very little content, the HN headline is misleading (the words "tax" and "monitor" do not appear anywhere on the targ

by haberman 15y ago

rivd 15y ago
i must agree about the content. it could be more balanced. two more articles about the event: http://www.businessinsider.com/eg8-france http://www.businessinsider.com/eg8-france http://www.novaspivack.com/technology/the-e-g8-forum-unveiled http://www.novaspivack.com/technology/the-e-g8-forum-unveile... but i share the concerns of mr. spivack in the 2nd link. At first sight the conference seems a perfectly valid event about the internet at this moment. But Sarkozy is not a person who takes privacy very seriously.
keane 15y ago
haberman, you say the article is a sensationalist piece with very little content but I'd like to point out that the site linked to is more than a single blog post. Included are links to Boing Boing comments and discussion as well as links to pieces in newspapers in France and Italy. This article, posted to g8internet.com, from the Italian newspaper la Republicca, by internet reporter Arturo Di Corinto, provides more detailed arguments and a generous use of footnotes and citations - http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2011/05/01/news/sarkozy_g8_internet-15493094/?ref=HREC1-9 http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2011/05/01/news/sarkozy_... Hopefully more pieces like that will be found and added to the growing repository at the site. As far as headline, I took that from an article by Dominic Basulto which I submitted separately here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2581175 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2581175 - apologies for any confusion.