French Law Bans Citizen Journalists From Covering Violence

FBLA knows a whole lot of people who are always blabbing about how much better things are in France. The food, the childcare, the food, etc. Here’s something that’s not only not better, it’s much worse:

The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images.

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