<story><title>French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)</title><url>http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/04/16/les-deputes-approuvent-un-systeme-de-surveillance-du-trafic-sur-internet_4616652_4408996.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gerty</author><text>French National Assembly has 577 delegates. According to Le Monde article, 25 voted for and 5 against. The rest, I suppose, didn&amp;#x27;t care to show up. This is beyond WTF.&lt;p&gt;I am a client at OVH and Gandi and I hope they send a big FU to the French government and relocate. I am willing to pay a premium for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagw</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The rest, I suppose, didn&amp;#x27;t care to show up.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m assuming it&amp;#x27;s largely strategic.  &amp;quot;Everybody&amp;quot; wanted to pass the bill, but no one wanted it on their voting record since they knew it was controversial.  So everybody got together and selected a small number of martyrs to go sully themselves while everybody else could keep their hands clean.</text></comment>
<story><title>French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)</title><url>http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/04/16/les-deputes-approuvent-un-systeme-de-surveillance-du-trafic-sur-internet_4616652_4408996.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gerty</author><text>French National Assembly has 577 delegates. According to Le Monde article, 25 voted for and 5 against. The rest, I suppose, didn&amp;#x27;t care to show up. This is beyond WTF.&lt;p&gt;I am a client at OVH and Gandi and I hope they send a big FU to the French government and relocate. I am willing to pay a premium for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zz1</author><text>They announced that they are going to relocate, indeed: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eu.ovh.com&amp;#x2F;fr&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;a1743.le-gouvernement-veut-il-contraindre-les-hebergeurs-internet-a-l-exil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eu.ovh.com&amp;#x2F;fr&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;a1743.le-gouvernement-ve...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And launched a big initiative to federate tech actors against the bill: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ni-pigeons-ni-espions.fr&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ni-pigeons-ni-espions.fr&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;########
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########&lt;p&gt;Octave Klaba finally declares that the bill doesn&amp;#x27;t compromise the trust chain.
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