10.11.2005

Blogs censored

Internet host Skyblog has closed down several blogs after comments in favour of the rioters were posted. Nevertheless others have sprung up to replace them, some exercising self-censorship. All express a variety of views, including from people in the cités (estates)

Aulnay-sous-Bois: They're already talking about the intifada, about civil war. Ninel: What happened to Bouna and Zihed is terrible "¦ nevertheless "¦ as for the acts committed by the youth, they don't seem to realise that they won't achieve integration like that. There is a danger of racism and discrimination increasing. People will remember the image of youths attacking firefighters and schools. Fabrice: Poverty is everywhere, not just in black and Arab suburbs. The whole capitalist system is responsible "¦ For dirty wars and bombs there's billions of euros. Omar: Burn our cars, burn our shops. We've been in the shit for a long time, but with dogs like you, we'll be in it a lot longer yet. 'Attention': Don't push things too far. People won't stay tolerant for ever. The Front National will gain and the army will come in. Teddy Bear: It's true there exists a hard core of voyous. But there is also the youth that our society has left at the side of the consumer road. 'Me': It's not good: three Molotov cocktails in my street yesterday. They'll bring out the guns if this carries on. Alablo: Money for the banlieues? The sacking of Sarko? A minimum of respect from the racist cops? We can get it all! How? Not by fire - by hunger-strikes. Like Gandhi. A thousand hunger-strikers and life will begin to change in the cités. Fatima: Thanks to those who are setting everything alight, we'll have the FN in government in 2007.