Sarkozy Calls for Global Rules for Internet
French President, Nicolas Sarkozy urged Internet leaders gathered in Paris to work with governments and share fairly the benefits of a revolution he compared to the discoveries of Christopher Columbus, Galileo and Isaac Newton.
Opening a forum at which Google’s Eric Schmidt and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg were among the speakers, Sarkozy praised an industry that has democratised information and helped to enable the revolutions of the Arab spring.
He told delegates that, "Now that the Internet is an integral part of most people’s lives, it would be contradictory to exclude governments. Nobody should forget that these governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people in our democracies.”
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Opening a forum at which Google’s Eric Schmidt and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg were among the speakers, Sarkozy praised an industry that has democratised information and helped to enable the revolutions of the Arab spring.
He told delegates that, "Now that the Internet is an integral part of most people’s lives, it would be contradictory to exclude governments. Nobody should forget that these governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people in our democracies.”
To read the article titled, “Global rules needed for internet, Sarkozy says,” click here.
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Business Day
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