Sarkozy's e-G8 Summit Draws Skepticism
GigaOM blogger thinks France is trying to kill the free Internet
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to host the e-G8 Forum, a sub-summit of the upcoming G8 economic summit focusing on the Internet and technology, have generated suspicion on at least one prominent tech blog. The e-G8 will include heads of state as well as key tech figures, with Eric Schmidt of Google, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg all expected to attend. It will be chaired by Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Lévy. Invitees will discuss the topics like the Internet’s impact on economic growth, future of technology, mobile web, and online privacy.
But GigaOM’s Bobbie Johnson fears that rather than an attempt at “accelerating growth” (which is the forum’s theme), the e-G8 might really end up a “closed shop of governments and corporations discussing how best to carve up the online world for us,” led by France.
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