France’s Sarkozy announces plans to jail repeat visitors to extremist websites

[fujiyama]

15. This is just over the top

Unless there is overt planning of an actual terrorist attack, criminalization of speech over the internet is a very bad idea, though it's obvious that google and facebook are trying to make it easier to eliminate anonymity over the internet.

Along with SOPA here in the US, it's kind of interesting that the recent threat of free speech on the internet comes from Western governments.

Hell in this case, he's not even talking about participating on such a site. He's talking about visiting them. Sometimes I might click on a link to a site I find repulsive out of curiosity to see what the freaks are saying. That doesn't mean I actually agree with a damn thing they have to say.