Don’t Believe the Hype!!

G8 vs INTERNET , http://g8internet.com

“The Internet is the place where we meet, speak, create, educate ourselves and organize. However, as we are at a turning point in early web history, it could either become a prime tool for improving our societies, knowledge and culture, or a totalitarian tool of suveillance and control. As a host of the G8, France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy wants to step up centralized control over the Internet. He has convened world leaders to a summit aimed at working towards a “civilized Internet”, a concept he borrowed from the Chinese government…”

See also: Fight back against Sarkozy’s EG8 — an exercise in censorship and control dressed up as a technology summit http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/17/fight-back-against-s.html