French Government Proposals To Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi

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In response to the recent Paris terror attacks, the French government is proposing to forbid and block the use of the Tor anonymity network.

According to an internal document from the Ministry of Interior viewed by journalists at the French newspaper Le Monde. The document includes two proposals of legislation, one around the state of emergency, and the other related to counterterrorism measures.

The French Government is considering to “Forbid free and shared wi-fi connections,” the measures have to be adopted to avoid any abuse of public wi-fi networks. The law enforcement is difficult to track suspects and terrorists who use public wi-fi networks.

The most controversial part of the piece of legislation is related to the ban of the Tor network, the legislation could be presented as early as January 2016.

The Tor is the most popular anonymizing network, it is currently maintained by volunteers. The anonymity of its users is ensured by routing the user’s traffic through unpredictable routes within the network of servers it includes, obfuscating the sources of data and masquerading the IP address.

Tor network is accused to be the kingdom of the evil, it hosts dark-market places where it is possible to acquire any king of illegal product and service, including drugs, child pornography, weapons, and malware.

But we cannot ignore the importance of Tor as it allows journalists, whistleblowers and people who just want to protect their privacy online to avoid the censorship.

The Chinese authorities actively blocks connections to the Tor network preventing users from accessing the anonymizing network. The block is possible preventing the access to the public Tor entry nodes, anyway in countries where there is a strict control of the network it is possible to use non-public entry nodes, so-called “bridges,” to avoid the censorship.

Is the French ready to implement the Chinese censorship model? Is it constitutional? 
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