Internet, the best weapon against press censorship

The journalist Erwan Desplanques notes that several recent cases of censorship in the French press have been divulged on the Internet. "The information always comes from the Net, which seems to be gaining new strength from the pressure placed on traditional media. The Net also provides an opportunity to get even, or at least to confirm the Net as a real alternative, not always dependable, but always fiercely independent, in the old style of newspapers. ... So an article is censored? Very well, here it is on the Net, sprinkled over a continually growing number of sites. So widespread that it becomes an 'event' recuperated by the headlines transforming the censor's scissors into a boomerang. The written press treated the Internet as a rival for a long time. Now it is discovering how this new technology has also become a guarantee of its freedom."

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