With the Paris Call, Macron wants to limit cyberattacks

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https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/12/with-the-paris-call-macron-wants-to-limit-cyberattacks/

By Romain Dillet
Techcrunch.com
November 12, 2018

French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech at the Internet Governance 
Forum at the UNESCO in Paris. While the IGF has been around for a while, 
it hasn’t been as active as some would have hoped.

That's why the French government is issuing the Paris Call, a short 
three-page document on cybersecurity. President Macron hopes to foster the 
IGF and create a subgroup of countries (and companies) that can agree on 
cybersecurity issues.

"Fist, internet works and is here. And even though news bulletins are 
riddled with cyber incidents, we blindly trust tech tools," Macron said.

And yet, according to him, if the global community can't agree on 
appropriate regulation, there’s a risk for the integrity of democratic 
processes. He thinks that there are currently two sides. Authoritarian 
governments already filter internet requests to restrict the web to a 
subset of the internet, while democratic countries let anyone browse a 
(mostly) unfiltered web.

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