Many gamers are using BitTorrent through Valve's Steam. By which I mean, that p2p file sharing is hardly nefarious. It's just a clever use of bandwidth.
I think I got a little ahead of myself here, sorry. Bram Cohen (who is known for inventing BitTorrent) has worked shortly with Valve on Steam. I can't find a source quoting Steam as using BitTorrent though, so let's assume that no.
We've been experimenting with remote workers for the last two years or so. Our team was used to work in the same place (in Paris), so it took a little bit of time to get used to, as we tried different ideas. Now it works really well with phone/video conferences, trello boards, github, remote pairing, and a (few) permanent chat rooms (thank you Freenode <3), etc.
I think the biggest complaint is that the offices sometimes feel empty to those who chose to work "on site". My take on this is "let's get smaller office space". Plus it costs less. :)
Following that logic, shouldn't Google put a blackout when it detects AdBlock is installed on your browser? A friendly reminder, for those of us who forgot who's really in control here. j/k, you're in control, right? ;)
I think the french FAI's filtering is “wrong”, not because it is opt-out, but because it seems to target one company. They're not getting good PR with the move anyway, so it should become opt-in soon-ish... My 2 cents.
Although Twitter did not take action for quite a while. They must have been waiting for the french elections, because they care so much about that...
Another note is that for a fake account (humorous or deceptive) to be deactivated, Twitter has to receive a complaint from the person (or a legal equivalent) being impersonated.
BTW, other candidates to the election still have active fake accounts.
>BTW, other candidates to the election still have active fake accounts.
Have they informed Twitter and has then Twitter failed to take action on that complaint?
>Although Twitter did not take action for quite a while.
Had Twitter received a complaint and not acted on it, or did they act on the complaint in a reasonable time-frame?
>They must have been waiting for the french elections, because they care so much about that...
Whoever is in charge of "media" by the personality in question (a French politician) probably didn't scour for impersonators till the campaign was ramping up, is my guess.
I mean, sure, there could be conspiracies. Maybe the French gov't made a deal with Twitter --who knows, I don't. Still, attributing malice where none is evident and it's all conjecture is not helping any. There seem to be simpler explanations.
The first was reactivated by Twitter after their owners complied with Twitter's recent changes in fake accounts policy. Apparently it wasn't obvious enough that it was not the official account (really?), so they changed the full name from "Nicolas Sarkozy" to "Nicolas Sarkozy Fake".
Of course, as long as Mr. Sarkozy was not a declared candidate to french elections, these accounts were all ok... Well that's (french?) politics at work for you.
For the others, it's just plain state-censorship unless I'm missing something here.
