French President plans crackdown on Internet hate sites

We read:

"President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday that France would make it a crime to consult Web sites that advocate terrorism or hate crimes and would toughen a crackdown on people who went abroad for ideological indoctrination.

"From now on, any person who habitually consults Web sites that advocate terrorism or that call for hatred and violence will be criminally punished," Sarkozy said in a televised address after police shot dead an al Qaeda-inspired gunman who had killed seven people.

"France will not tolerate forced recruitment or ideological indoctrination on its soil," Sarkozy said, adding that an enquiry would be launched into whether prisons were being used to propagate extremism in France.

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This announcement is from a few weeks back but nothing more seems to have happened about it.  It would need legislation and since Sarko seems to be set to lose the current Presidential election, that may be the end of it.

Advocating violence is one thing but just reading an advocacy of violence is surely something else.  The first is generally not protected anywhere but the second would probably catch many people who read but do nothing about it  -- an overkill.