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What's not clear is WHY the French classified the content in question as 'terrorist.' Some examples are linked on the IA blog.
This fits the trend of trying to regulate the Internet. The Chinese have done it for years but way more extreme. The EU has already been doing it. The UK just got on board with their 'Duty of Care' regulation. They claim it's for public safety and cite easy examples of terrorist and illegal activity that nobody will disagree with. But you can already prosecute those illegal things under existing laws. The powers that the EU and UK are giving themselves to regulate online content, are almost unlimited. They won't start out that way, but in the future almost anything they want can be defined as unsafe. This kind of national-level censorship risks fragmenting the Internet into the 'splinternet.'
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