French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect
- Costs incurred by the ISPs
- Sites that are blocked will redirect to a page from the interior ministry describing why the action was taken
- French internet service providers to block sites within 24 hours
- France has introduced a new law that allows government agencies to order the blocking of websites that advocate acts of terrorism or contain images of child abuse.
The legislation was brought in by revisions to 2011’s Loppsi Act, and an anti-terror bill passed by the French senate in October, but can now be used by the general directorate of the police’s cybercrime unit to force French internet service providers to block sites within 24 hours, without a court order.
Sites that are blocked will redirect to a page from the interior ministry describing why the action was taken. The sites will be checked quarterly to make sure they continue to display the proscribed content and that the block is still appropriate.
Blocking and filtering child abuse will prevent any major cases of paedophilia in the near future.
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