Between the freedom to inform the people and the protection of the interests of a
few billionaires, the State and justice have chosen their sides... ---- 2018: Acontroversial law ---- In June 2018, the bill relating protection of businesssecrets, filed by the LREM group to transpose the European Directive on businesssecrets into French law, was adopted in the Senate. At the time, there were manywarnings against the passage of this law. In particular, the right to inform wasquestioned, of journalists of course, but also of union representatives andwhistleblowers. ---- Only a few months before, a forum revealed that thisEuropean directive had been "developed by the lobbies of multinationals andinvestment banks" and that its definition of "business secret" was "so vast thatany information internal to a company can now be classified in this category"[1].2022: The Altice caseThese predictions unfortunately, but obviously, turned out to be correct: thisThursday, October 6, 2022, the interim judge of the Nanterre commercial courtruled in favor of the Altice group, owned by billionaire Patrick Drahi, againstthe information site Reflets.info .For several weeks, Reflets has regularly published articles revealing anddetailing the financial arrangements, the colossal expenses, and the excess ofthe systematic tax optimizations of the Altice group.Since October 6, 2022, Reflets simply no longer has the right to "publish newinformation", if we stick to the wording of the decision[2]...Surprisingly (or not), the existing articles are not censored by the courtdecision, which concerns only the articles to come. Justice therefore recognizeson the one hand that what has already been published can remain so, that is tosay that it does not violate business secrecy a priori, but, on the other hand,prohibited in the name of it. here is the publication of any new information incase, without being able to know a priori whether this new information wouldviolate business secrecy or not!We need independent mediaReflets is one of those media that are regularly present on the indie mediaportal published by Basta!. It is for example at Reflets that we had to beinformed[3], already a few years before the revelations of Edward Snowden in2013, of the implementation of mass surveillance on the Internet at the scale ofentire countries, and in particular the fact that it was France that sold Gaddafithe tools to implement this surveillance in Libya, for example...One thing is certain: if the decision of the Commercial Court of Nanterre isconfirmed on appeal (Reflets announced to appeal "For ourselves, but also for thewhole profession. "[4]) it will leave behind a very serious case law . Thebillionaires already have control of the mainstream press, which they own, wedon't need them to be able to gag independent media so easily.The Librisme commission of the Libertarian Communist Union, October 12, 2022.To validate[1]See the Business Secret column: "The right to information is in danger"published in Télérama on March 21, 2018.[2]See Justice prohibits Reflets from publishing information on Altice publishedon October 6, 2022 on Reflets.info.[3]See Deep Packet Inspection: feedback on the meeting with the CEO of Qosmos,published on February 26, 2011 on Reflets.info.[4]See the appeal "Patrick Drahi will not silence us! of the Fund for the Free Press.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Secret-des-affaires-l-Etat-au-service-du-Capital_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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