Overview of FDN & La Quadrature’s challenge against Website Blocking

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  • Overview of FDN & La Quadrature's challenge against Website Blocking
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    This month, French Data Network and La Quadrature du Net filed a lawsuit to the Conseil d’État, one of the supreme courts, against the French government on website blocking.

    Who?

    French Data Network, the Fédération FDN and La Quadrature du Net. This is the same team working against Data Retention.

    How?

    Right after the Charlie Hebdo shootings, the French government issued a décret enabling a section of the police to request that Internet access providers block access to a secret list of websites.

    This décret is an application of two laws:

    the 2011 LOPPSI law which had a provision about website blocking in order to fight against child pornography the 2013 “Cazeneuve law” against terrorism which created a new article in the French penal code about “incitement to terrorism” or terrorism apology. (...)