French Bloggers Comment on Facebook and Twitter Ban

The Epoch Times Friday 10th June, 2011

France Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA), the regulatory body in charge of overseeing TV policies, recently announced that television and radio presenters should refrain from mentioning Facebook or Twitter by name, arguing that doing so would equate to engaging in "disguised advertising." In the same way, since 1992, French media must use the term, "a certain soft drink," instead of mentioning the trade name of a particular manufacturer. Although widely viewed by U.S. analysts as an anti-American move, some commentators in France view the Facebook-Twitter issue as a product of a backward mentality. "CSA simply did not understand that before being trade names, Twitter and Facebook are public spaces where 25 percent of the French population exchange views and information," said Benoît...

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