[A2k] French rejection of graduated response: Google Translate of Numerma story

[Sean DALY]

Before popping open the Champgne(tm), remember that 541 or so National
Assembly delegates were absent for the Easter recess...

( http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/english/8al.asp )


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:02 PM, James Love <james.love@keionline.org> wrote=
:
> I'm sure a real translation would be better, but here is a quick look at
> what happened using Google translate:
>
> http://www.numerama.com/magazine/12594-URGENT-le-Parlement-rejette-la-loi=
-Creation-et-Internet.html
>
> URGENT: Parliament Rejects Law Creation and In...
>
> Published on www.numerama.com
>
> on 09/04/2009
>
> URGENT: Parliament Rejects Law Creation and Internet! (Update)
>
> It is absolutely incredible, but it is democracy that has won! You,
> Internet users, who have won. Thursday, the National Assembly refused to
> ratify (by 21 votes against 15) Bill and Creation Internet and flexible
> response. The text does not need to be censored to the Constitutional
> Council, it will not be enacted! Unless the government stubbornly and
> requires a second reading, which the Constitution allows.
>
> Updated: legally, the government has the opportunity to request a second
> reading. According to our information, the Secretary of State for
> Relations with Parliament Roger arrived Karoutchi of urgency after the
> vote to establish a strategy. But such a rejection is a priori only
> twice in the history of the 5th Republic, which shows the extent of
> political blow this morning.
>
> Incredible: Thursday, to everyone's surprise, the members rejected the
> bill and the Internet Created by 21 votes against 15!
>
> The lines have moved, Thursday, in the final vote of the Creation and
> Internet law. To the point that Christine Albanel was to push a phew of
> relief in remembering that the emergency procedure, again chosen by the
> government should avoid a second round of parliamentary debate. But
> increasingly, senators and MPs have revised their position to discover
> the extent of the gas plant that would create, against the republican
> principles of respect for the presumption of innocence. And emergency
> procedure is no longer sufficient to prevent censorship of the text.
>
>
> The Senate, which voted unanimously benches Bill at first reading, with
> the exception of the communist group who had abstained split this
> morning. If the Senators and New UMP Center maintained their favorable
> vote, the Greens voted against and the PS has chosen not to show his
> disagreement with some points of the text, and take a step towards the
> position of Deputies.
>
> At the National Assembly, the centrist MP Jean Dionis du S=E9jour no
> longer required. He had to reconcile his personal opposition virulent
> against the draft law to the position of his group New Center in favor
> of flexible response, has cracked. Rather than abstain as he had
> announced during the debate, he chose at the last minute to cross the
> Rubicon and vote against the bill. An exceptional group for the New
> Center, part of the parliamentary majority. Members PS, Greens, and
> Communists have maintained their course, vote against, while the ranks
> were thin UMP.
>
> Minister Christine Albanel was the victim of a sin of pride. MPs have
> not tried the method, and the hardening of the text to the CMP,
> including the restoration of the "double jeopardy" (the fact to pay the
> subscription for the suspension). They did not have appreciated either
> that the Minister does not respond to questions prior plea of
> inadmissibility and brilliantly defended by the opposition.
>
> When voting, the number of hands to vote for the bill was very short:
>
> They voted for
>
> They voted against
>
> The applause, the text was rejected.
>
> For Numerama, these are months of fighting and demonstrations of the
> dangers of legal and technical text that is fruit. Months of often
> difficult struggle that we have been able to take that with your
> support, and the incredibly valuable work of the Quadrature du Net and
> MPs Martine Billard, Patrick Bloche, Christian Paul and Jean-Pierre
> Brard.
>
> Thank you all. This morning, it is democracy that has swept the lobby.
> You can be proud.
>
> URGENT: Parliament Rejects Law Creation and In...
> http://74.125.93.132/translate_c?hl=3Den&ie=3DUTF-8...
>
>
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