Singapore Takes an Extreme Net Neutrality Regulation

History repeats itself. In 2011, KPN tried to surcharge OTT services, and the result was that The Netherlands adopted a Net Neutrality law (see "Nice try, KPN - Netherlands First European Country to Adopt Net Neutrality" - here).

Last week, during her presentation at MWC, Sock Koong Chua [pictured], CEO, Singtel said she "urged regulators to give carriers like Optus the right to charge rivals such as WhatsApp and Skype for use of their networks or risk a major decline in network investment" (report by David Ramli, to Financial Review, here).

And the result? A very strict Net Neutrality regulation.

Mobile World Live reports that "Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), Singapore’s regulator, has said the country’s mobile operators will not be allowed to block or charge a fee to subscribers who access OTT services .. ISPs are not allowed to block legitimate internet content; neither should they impose restrictions, charges or other measures that will render any legitimate internet content effectively inaccessible or unusable.”

In addition, it said ISPs are not allowed to adopt traffic management practices that will compromise QoS standards or any anti-competitive discriminatory practice what would hurt consumers".

See "Singapore’s regulator warns operators on OTT charges" - here.

UK to Enforce Opt Out Network Based Web Filtering on All ISPs

More than 2 years ago the UK Government said it wants an Opt Out Parental Control (here). Now it decided to go for it - potentially creating some opportunities to DPI vendors (see related posts about Allot, Procera and Sandvine success for network-based filtering)

David Cameron, the UK Prime Minster [pictured] said he is about to "cracking down on online pornography and making the internet safer for children"

"Inside the home, on the private family network, it is a more complicated issue. There has been a big debate about whether internet filters should be set to a default ‘on’ position in other words, with adult content filters applied by default – or not .. Those who wanted default ‘on’ said – it’s a no-brainer just have the filters set to ‘on’ - then adults can turn them off if they want to and that way we can protect all children, whether their parents are engaged in internet safety or not ..  But others said default ‘on’ filters could create a dangerous sense of complacency ..  I say: we need both we need good filters that are pre-selected to be on unless an adult turns them off and we need parents aware and engaged in the setting of those filters".

Mr. Cameron analyzes the new family-friendly filter by access method:

• "..So on mobile phones, it is great to report that all of the operators have now agreed to put adult content filters onto phones automatically.

• On public wi-fi – of which more than 90 per cent is provided by six companies – O2, Virgin Media, Sky, Nomad, BT and Arqiva - I’m pleased to say we have now reached an agreement with all of them that family-friendly filters are to be applied across the public wi-fi network wherever children are likely to be present. 

• I appointed Claire Perry to take charge of this for the very simple reason that she is passionate about this issue and determined to get things done.She has worked with the big 4 internet service providers TalkTalk, Virgin, Sky and BT  [see the previous "self-regulation" act - "UK: Top 4 ISPs Committed for Opt-In Parental Control" - here], who together supply internet connections to almost 9 out of 10 homes and today, after months of negotiation, we have agreed home network filters that are the best of both worlds. By the end of this year, when someone sets up a new broadband account the settings to install family friendly filters will be automatically selected"

See "The internet and pornography: Prime Minister calls for action" - here.

DPI Opportunity: UK's Proposed Communication Data Bill

The UK government has a problem. Old methods of accessing "CD" [Communications data (CD) is information about a communication. It applies to telephones (both landline and mobile) and  to internet-based communications (including email, instant messaging, web browsing and social media)] are not sufficient anymore, because of this new thing. The Internet.

The Intelligence and Security Committee, headed by Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind (pictured), MP, published a report (below, or here) explaining the problem and the solution.

Problem:

•  "The telecommunications industry has seen radical change over the last 20 years, first with the emergence of mobile telephony, and more recently the transition to internet-based communication. The Home Office, police, and the Agencies have explained that this makes the acquisition of CD more difficult. Moreover, the current legislation governing data retention does not cover many of the new forms of communication"
   
• "As we have set out, the existing legislation (RIPA) does not cover the problems of emerging technology, or provide the mechanism for asking overseas CSPs to retain CD. Consideration must, therefore, be given to a new approach"

Solution Alternatives:

(i) Alternative investigatory tools ("***  expensive ***") (ii) A voluntary approach ("the CSPs to provide the Agencies with CD") and (iii) The legislative approach ("The Government has decided that neither expanding the use of alternative investigatory tools nor pursuing a voluntary approach is feasible, and has therefore decided on the legislative route. We accept that, given the drawbacks to the two other options we have examined, this is a logical decision.")

The bill:

The main provisions of the draft Bill are:  Ensuring or facilitating the availability of communications data, Regulatory regime for obtaining data and Scrutiny and other provisions.

And here is the DPI opportunity:

"The power for the Secretary of State to serve individual notices on each CSP that will be required to retain data, specifying the details of what material the particular CSP will have to retain. This would include the ability to instruct CSPs to capture third-party content traversing their networks using technology such  as Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)"

Safer Internet Day - Operators can Help!

Today, February 5th, is the Safer Internet Day (SID) - "organised by Insafe in February of each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world" (here).

See also "EU: Net Neutrality is about Transparency; Favor of Parental Control" - here and "Deutsche Telekom Group supports Child Online Safety Initiative" - here.

The above statement from DT shows that operators may help parents make the internet safer for children. For example, they may provide network based parental control services. There is even a revenue opportunity associated with the service.

During the years, I covered several such deployments as you may see in the following table (taken from my recent report - "The Broadband Traffic Management 2013 Deployments Directory", available here.

Operator	Country	Type	Vendor	System	Post
Virgin Mobile	France	Mobile	Optenet	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/12/parental-control-deployments209.html
Coriolis	France	Mobile	Optenet	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/12/parental-control-deployments209.html
China Telecom	China	Mobile	Live Mobile	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/11/parental-control-deployments-201-china.html
ETB	Colombia	Fixed	Optenet	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/09/parental-controlcontent-security.html
SFR	France	Mobile	Optenet	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/07/parental-control-deployments-161-sfr.html
VimpelCom	Russia	ISP	Symantec Corporation	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/03/vassecurity-deployments-135-vimpelcom.html
Sri Lanka Telecom	Sri Lanka	Fixed	Opetnet	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/03/vassecurity-deployments-132-sri-lanka.html
StarHub	Singapore	Mobile	Mobixell Networks	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/02/tmsecurity-deployments-122-starhub.html
MTN	Nigeria	Mobile	AdaptiveMobile	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2011/11/dpisecurity-deployments-102-mtn-nigeria.html
Turkcell Superonline	Turkey	Mobile	Optenet	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2011/07/dpi-deployments-80-turkcelturkcell.html
Turkcell	Turkey	Mobile	Optenet	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2011/07/dpi-deployments-80-turkcelturkcell.html
CyberOne	Australia	Cable	ContentKeeper Technologies	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2011/07/dpi-deployments-77-cyberone-australia.html
Vodafone	UK	Mobile	Blue Coat Systems	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2011/06/vodafone-uk-web-traffic-filtered-by.html
Vodafone	Turkey	Mobile	Optenet	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2011/06/dpi-deployments-74-vodafone-turkey-uses.html
NTT Plala	Japan	ISP	Cisco	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2011/06/dpi-deployments-73-ntt-plala-deploys.html
TalkTalk	UK	ISP	Huawei	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2011/05/dpi-deployments-68-talktalk-uk-launches.html
Amtrak	USA	Wi-Fi	N/A	Parental Control	http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2010/09/dpiqos-deployments-26-amtrak-blocks.html

Israel Prepares for Bill Shock Prevention; Opt-In for Data Roaming

The Israeli Ministry of Communications published a call for consultation (here and below, Hebrew) regarding bill-shock prevention regulation for roaming services.

The ministry plans to amend MNO licenses, following complaints it got from subscribers getting huge bills, sometimes reaching 5 figures (in Israeli currency - i.e. over $10,000). This may be also caused, according to the ministry, by data charges for "always-on" applications, such as Email and other application synchronization, that the subscriber is not aware they consume data even if not actively used.

The main suggested changes for data roaming are:

• New subscribers will be blocked for international data roaming and will have to opt-in for the service
• Existing subscribers will be blocked for international data roaming (unless they are already signed to a special service plan)
• An SMS will be sent to any subscriber reaching 50% and 85% of their data plan. At 100% the service will be blocked.
• Subscribers trying to use data roaming, without a data package will be blocked and the MNO will have to send an SMS detailing the rates and instructions for enabling the service. 

Embarq Cleared by US court in Relations to NebuAd Ad Insertion

A recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals in a case against Embarq (now CenturyLink), in relations to the use of NebuAd for behavioral advertising clears Embarq, the ISP (background - here, here).

Judge Harris L Hartz concludes: "The alleged interceptions occurred when Embarq authorized NebuAd, Inc., an online advertising company, to conduct a technology test for directing online advertising to the users most likely to be interested in the ads.  Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm the district court’s judgment.  Although NebuAd acquired various information about Embarq users during the course of the technology test, Embarq cannot be liable as an aider and abettor.  And it was undisputed that Embarq’s access to that information was no different from its access to any other data flowing over its network.  Because this access was only in the ordinary course of providing Internet services as an ISP, this access did not constitute an interception within the meaning of the statute".

See here, and below.

US Bill Suggests to Control Data Caps

Few days after the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute report concluded that US ISPs data caps are ".. product of an uncompetitive broadband marketplace where providers use data restrictions to increase revenues and protect legacy services such as cable television from online competition" (here) rather than "..manage growing traffic and maintain quality of service on their networks" a new Data Cap Integrity Act was introduced the US Senate.

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (pictured) proposal (here, below) gives "consumers the tools they need to manage their own data usage, institute industry-wide data measurement accuracy standards for ISPs, and impose disciplines to ensure that ISP data caps are truly designed to manage network congestion .. The Data Cap Integrity Act requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish standards by how ISPs will measure data and empowers it to ensure that data caps are designed to manage network congestion rather than monetize data in ways that undermine online innovation. Furthermore, it ensures that consumers are provided tools to manage their data consumption and that ISPs cannot, for purposes of measuring data, discriminate against any content".



See "Wyden Data Cap Legislation Will Protect Consumers and Promote Innovation" - here.

[Renesys]: Countries Ranked by Risk of Disconnection

Few days ago we saw it is possible to disconnect a country from the Internet (see "The World is Disconnected from Syria since Thursday" - here - Syria was connected again on Saturday - here). Sophisticated DPI was not needed here - a (single?) cord cut was probably enough.

A research by James Cowie (pictured), CTO, Renesys, tries to evaluate which countries are in risk of being disconnected easily.

"The key to the Internet's survival is the Internet's decentralization — and it's not uniform across the world .. There may be only one or two companies who hold official licenses to carry voice and Internet traffic to and from the outside world, and they are required by law to mediate access for everyone else .. [The map below] with countries colored according to the Internet diversity at the international frontier. We did a census, from our own view of the global Internet routing table, of all the domestic providers in each country who have direct connections (visible in routing) to foreign providers"

"If you have only 1 or 2 companies at your international frontier, we classify your country as being at severe risk of Internet disconnection .. If you have fewer than 10 service providers at your international frontier, your country is probably exposed to some significant risk of Internet disconnection .. If you have more than 10 internationally-connected service providers, but fewer than about 40, your risk of disconnection is fairly low .. Finally, if you have more than 40 providers at your frontier, your country is likely to be extremely resistant to Internet disconnection"

See "Could It Happen In Your Country?" - here.

European Telcos do not Like Regulation and OTT!

Surprised by the title of this post? You shouldn't be. We have seen this many times, and in this year's MWC was no exception (besides, maybe, the language used by the Mr. Bernabe):

• Telecom Italia: Mike Dano reports to Fierce Wireless: "The CEO of Telecom Italia, Franco Bernabe (pictured), used his keynote appearance here at the Mobile World Congress trade show to rally against over-the-top players, arguing that OTT vendors are sucking resources away from wireless operators .. OTT players hinder competition by relying on non-standardized technologies ..  such players also don't understand mobile, and therefore cause unintended problems like overloading mobile networks with unnecessary signaling .. This imposes a big burden on mobile operators .. average revenues per user in Europe have decreased from 26 euros in 2006 to 20 euros in 2011--at a time when operators are investing heavily in their networks to deal with traffic generated in part by OTT services".
  
  See " Telecom Italia CEO highlights 'burdens' created by OTT players" - here.

• Deutsche Telekom - Jeff Barak report to Amdocs Blog that "Deutsche Telekom’s Obermann (pictured) pointed out that in this new cloud era, ”best effort” connectivity won’t be enough – for example, medical cloud services can’t be allowed to fail – and operators will play an important role in providing end-to-end quality of service. The regulator, Obermann insisted, has to accept that non-discriminating traffic management is essential for delivering real quality of service".
  
  See "Who’s going to get left behind? (Live from MWC 2012)" - here. 

• TeliaSonera - Michelle Donegan reports to Light Reading "TeliaSonera said it will charge an extra fee for using free over-the-top VoIP services on its network and throttle bandwidth for users who try to use these services without paying. In an interview with Light Reading TV, Tommy Ljunggren (pictured), TeliaSonera's VP of system development, explained the operator's new strategy and pricing policy for OTT VoIP services. TeliaSonera's message is clear: If you want to use those services on our network, you have to pay; if you don't, those services won't work".
   See "TeliaSonera Chokes Free VoIP Services" - here; This follows TeliaSonera's subsidiary in Spain, Yoigo, recent action - see " Procera's DPI Enables Yoigo VoIP's Monetization" - here.

Mobixell and Commtouch Offer Parental Control W/Real Time Content Categorization

   

Regulation in some countries requires ISPs to block certain sites to all or some of the subscribers. Just recently we saw the legislation efforts in the US (here) and a court order in the UK (here) to block sites that feature copyrighted content, but the most common case is the global effort to stop child abuse content, or protect minors (and other people) from accessing inappropriate content. Some countries even censor sites for political or other reasons (imagine that!).

  

There are many ways to block sites, but as the UK regulator, Ofcom, concluded recently that "All site blocking techniques can be circumvented" (here). Nevertheless, regulation and possibly customer demand (see "Parental Control Opportunity: 87% Say they Need it, Only 43% has it" - here) drive vendors to offer a more robust technology that includes real-time categorization and verification of content.

A new integrated solution from Mobixell Networks and Commtouch claims to offer such solution.

The two vendors announced that " .. Mobixell Seamless Access Mobile Internet Gateway, featuring Commtouch GlobalView™ URL Filtering offers advanced content filtering capabilities which enable telecom operators to improve security for mobile device users and ensure compliance with child protection Web content legislation.. enabling telecom operators to block access to Web sites deemed unfit for children and comply with even the strictest child protection regulation. Content categorization from Commtouch is available as a module of the Mobixell Seamless Access Mobile Internet Gateway which enables telecom operators to manage complex content delivery policies, offering a variety of opt-in user protection services, including parental control, real-time rating and content verification"
 

"The content categorization mechanism within the Mobixell platform is powered by Commtouch’s GlobalView URL Filtering solution and the cloud-based GlobalView Network. The technology continuously monitors and analyzes Web traffic to provide real-time, accurate categorization of URLs from anywhere in the world. The solution accurately categorizes dynamic user generated content and Web 2.0 sites".

 

See "Protecting Children from Mobile Porn Gets Push from National Governments" - here.

US Senate Rejected an Attempt to Kill Net Neutrality

     

Cecilia Kang reports to the Washington Post that "The Senate upheld Internet access rules known as net neutrality on Thursday, rejecting a move to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s regulations .. The Republican-backed bill to scrap the FCC’s net neutrality rules failed to pass muster in a 46-to-52 vote that fell strictly along party lines"

".. the loss by Senate Republicans gives the FCC some reprieve, but the neutrality rules are being challenged in court. Verizon Communications [see "Verizon Explains its "Network Optimization" Policy" - here] and Metro PCS [see "MetroPCS LTE Service Plans: "Pay to use Applications" - here] have sued the agency, saying the rules go beyond the FCC’s jurisdiction as a communications services regulator. On the other side, Free Press, which supports net neutrality, has also sued the FCC, saying the rules don’t adequately protect wireless consumers"

See "Senate votes against net neutrality killer" - here.

The FCC "Open Internet" (or Net Neutrality) sets rules for transparency, no blocking and no unreasonable discrimination (subject to the " principle of reasonable network management") of internet services and will become effective next Sunday, Nov 20 (more - here).

See also "US Net Neutrality: Different Things to Different People -> Lawsuits to Come" (here).

US Net Neutrality: Different Things to Different People -> Lawsuits to Come

    

Dexter Thillen, Senior Analyst, IHS Global Insight article at RCRWireless says that "Net Neutrality becomes law [here], but lawsuits to come"

"The FCC’s rules point out three major areas of ensuring principles—transparency, no blocking and no unreasonable discrimination—but the issue is sometimes complicated by the use of different terms to define these principles, whether it is open, fair or neutral .. for example, Verizon, whose latest “network optimisation” programme [here] clearly follows the transparency principle—but it also blocks tethering applications on its LTE network despite the licence requirements calling for open access, showing that different interests can occur even within the same organisation"

"There still exists some role for regulators to ensure all services have fair and transparent access, but regulation will never satisfy all the different parties, as their diverging interests are too far apart, but as the Dutch case has proven, consumers might suffer from too draconian regulation as the introduction of the new ruled [here], where no content could be blocked by mobile operators, led to a sharp increase in data prices in the market."

See "Analyst Angle: Net neutrality becomes US law with lawsuits to come" - here.

Israeli MNOs - Do They Keep the Net Neutrality Law?

  

Amitai Ziv (picture) has a story today in the Israeli news site, TheMarker, on Net Neutrality.

As Israel has a Net Neutrality law for wireless services (see "Net Neutrality [Israel] - Parliament Approved Wireless Neutrality" - here), it is interesting to see the comments he got by the 3 mobile operators:

• Pelephone (here): "we study the subject and will act according to the law"
   
• Cellcom (here): "we act according to the law"
   
• Partner (here): "we keep the net Neutrality principle and operate according to regulation and our license terms. We do not prevent access to any network service. As guided by the regulator, we use systems to optimize network resources and prevent malicious activities by the subscribes"

See - here (in Hebrew). I was also interviewed to the article.

DPI Deployments (80): Turkcel/TurkCell Superonline Use Optenet Web Filtering (Cisco and Sandvine DPI)

  

Two weeks after announcing the deployment by Vodafone Turkey (see " Vodafone Turkey Uses Optenet and Allot for Web Filtering" - here), Optenet now announces that "both Turkcell and Turkcell Superonline, with market leadership in five of the nine countries in which it operates and approximately 60.4 million subscribers, to provide filtering services to its residential customers in Turkey .. Optenet will enable Turkcell and Turkcell Superonline to effectively filter all Web/WAP content classified as illegal by government authorities, ensuring they do not inadvertently transfer content prohibited by law .. It is a complete solution that is able to filter both HTTP and non-HTTP traffic. ".

Source: Turkcell Q1 Presentation

While the Vodafone solution was integrated with DPI gear from Allot, this time it it "fully integrated with their infrastructure interoperating with CISCO SCE and Huawei for Turkcell and Sandvine DPI for Turkcell Superonline"

See "Turkcell and Turkcell Superonline select Optenet and Alcatel-Lucent to provide fully law compliant filtering services to its residential customers before August 22, 2011 in accordance with new Turkish government regulations" - here.

Vodafone UK: Web Traffic Filtered by Bluecoat, w/RT Content Analysis

  

The NO DPI site reports that Vodafone UK filters web traffic using a Bluecoat based filter. The article provides some packet traces as a prove and then brings VF's response.

The rather detailed response provides a good explanation on the technology associated with network based web filtering service - how illegal traffic is blocked (based on IWF lists - here) and how sites are categorized using a pre-populated database and real-time content analysis.

"The Bluecoat filter you refer to classifies every internet site into one or more of over 70 categories.  In order to apply the adult bar to protect our younger customers, Vodafone take these 70+ categories and rates them as either Adult of Universal.  As the internet is growing at an ever increasing rate, so there are a percentage of sites not yet classified by Bluecoat as they are too new. To be on the safe side,  when a user requests a site that is not classified, the Bluecoat system pulls the page requested and checks to see if there is any obvious content that would make it necessary to classify it.   If it does appear adult, then the warning page is displayed. If not, it is served to the customer in the normal way.   In order that we preserve customer service in terms of performance, but do not compromise safety, this is all done simultaneously. Vodafone do not retain any of this information.  The site will be dynamically rated on each visit.  If the site is a more popular one, it is added to the database and the checking process would stop occurring If a customer is over 18 then they can access any internet site they wish with the exception of sites dealing with child abuse images as classified by the IWF.  If a customer is under 18 then where content is regarded as unsuitable we serve a warning page.Bluecoat does not constitute ‘spyware’.  It is a network operation applied to every internet request and we are required to do this in order to meet our regulatory and industry obligations. This is not a question of intercepting customer communications but the safety of our younger customers in a dynamic environment.  Other network operators use the same or similar systems"

See "Vodastalk; Vodafone and Bluecoat Stalking Subscribers" - here.

See also:

• UK Government Pushes ISPs (Again) to Provide Better Parental Control - here
• UK: Public Pressure on ISPs to Enforce Parental Control (Killing a VAS?) - here
• Vodafone Turkey Uses Optenet and Allot for Web Filtering - here
• TalkTalk [UK] Launches Free, Opt-in, Parental Control/Malware Detection - here

 

DPI Deployments (74): Vodafone Turkey Uses Optenet and Allot for Web Filtering

      

Optenet announced that it "has won an RFP with Vodafone Turkey, the leading mobile communications provider in Turkey, to provide filtering services to its residential customers in Turkey .. The proposed solution should be capable of keeping profiles in the forms of white lists or black lists enabling or disabling the users to access internet and of creating pre-defined types of profiles that can be selected by the users wishing to receive Safe Internet Services based on their needs.".

See "Optenet and Alcatel-Lucent sign a contract with Vodafone Turkey to provide fully law compliant filtering services to its residential customers" - here.

"With Alcatel-Lucent managing integration and deployment, Optenet will enable Vodafone Turkey to effectively filter all Web/WAP content classified as illegal by government authorities, ensuring they do not inadvertently transfer content prohibited by law. The solution, wich enables optimized deployment through the integration of Allot hardware DPI and Optenet's software DPI, stands out for its simplicity, highly effective filtering system and flexibility when it comes to deploying it in the operator’s network infrastructure and leverages proven methods of deployment to ensure very high scalability and minimal impact or intrusion into the operator transit network".

See other parental control deployments: TalkTalk (here), Telefonica /O2 (here), Orange France (here)

Source: Optenet

[Israel] ISPs will have to Publish Committed Speed

   

The Israeli communication regulator (Ministry of Communication) will require mobile and fixed carriers, as well as ISPs, to include committed (minimal) upload and download speeds (to be presented separately) in their publications.

See a press release (here, Hebrew) about the upcoming hearing on this subject. This is a preliminary step, so the term "speed" is not defined and obviously noteasy to define.

Moshe Cachlon, (picture) the Minister of Communications said that "the transparency requirement will allow customers to examine each provider’s proposal and will allow to perform service and price comparison".

Mr. Cachlon initiated a number of consumer-oriented regulations during his 2 years in duty in all aspects of public communication services.

Sarkozy: G8 should Regulate the Internet

France's President, Sarkozy "wants his G8 colleagues to reflect on issues concerning regulation of the Internet and the World Wide Web, such as: "How should we regulate the Internet, how should we respond to the problem of terrorism, of pedophilia, and subjects such as the right to be forgotten?"

See report by Monica Horten at IPTegrity.com - "Sarkozy wants Internet (blocking) talks at G8" - here.

 
"It's not about curbing the liberty of the Internet, the conditions for its development,... it is on the contrary to see how one can regulate this virtual city without denying the opportunity of the Internet .. However, it's also reported in the French media (PC Inpact ) that the discussions will encompass intellectual property"