G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing

The irony couldn’t be more obvious. After staging a piece of political theater called the E-G8, which French President Nicolas Sarkozy used as a platform to champion the notion of much tougher government control over the Internet, the president today will welcome to the analog G8 meeting in Deauville, representatives from the interim governments of Tunisia and Egypt.

Without the Internet, and social media in particular, the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt would simply have never occurred.

Read the full article in The Huffington Post.

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Don Tapscott, one of the world's leading authorities on business strategy, is Chairman of Moxie Insight. He was founder and chairman of the international think tank New Paradigm before its acquisition 2007. Read more about Don.

2 Responses to G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing

  1. Anthony Scaffeo

    The product of failed 20th century institutions #Egypt and #Tunisia …. the round table is only gonna get bigger unless that want to play with fire (regulation). Does the French president want to become a fireman or a man of fire – please choose the latter Mr. Sarkozy and let the Internet spread like wild fire.

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