Comments on: France Orders Broadcasters to Un-Like Facebook, Unfollow Twitter

By: Tim D.

Tim D. — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:27:32 +0000

@ Ashley

Commercially supported media will end when you can come up with a viable revenue stream to replace it. Don’t want ads on Youtube? Then you’ll have to pay a hefty subscription fee to use it. It’s not rocket surgery.

By: Ashley Cakes

Ashley Cakes — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:20:51 +0000

It would be insanely refreshing to NOT have to be bombarded all day long by advertisements and all that corporate bs. I see nothing wrong with it. You know what I’d love to see? A ban on putting commercials at the beginning of every popular YouTube video. When will advertisements and commercials END? Where do we draw the damn line?

By: Wesley

Wesley — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:19:20 +0000

Not every country can or should have the same set of laws or value system. Having a world filled with a lot of small countries each inventing their own laws and culture gives us a chance to see how different things work or don’t work and avoids the dreadful monoculture. I kinda wish Canada and the states were more like Europe, broken down into ten different countries, most speaking different languages and having different laws, ways of doing things.. Than I wouldn’t have had to travel so far to find a place different enough from home to keep me interested..

By: greg

greg — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:42:44 +0000

@michelle: Why do Frenchmen pretend not to know English, but turn suddenly fluent when they are the ones wanting help?

@tracy: Yes, as a nation they actually are that xenophobic. If you get out into the country, speak to women, young people or those who make their living from tourism a better image emerges. It also helps to not be American, and to at least try to speak some French.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:38:24 +0000

No product placement is the law in France, and applying it to American interests is not xenophobic. But the slant of the article and the responses from Americans sure are xenophobic. Why do we hate the French so much?

By: lenore

lenore — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:09:47 +0000

Mind blowing, great reading! The French surprise me from time to time, remember when they banned Muslim women from wearing burquas?

By: ets_spoon

ets_spoon — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:34:48 +0000

Give France a break. Abstaining from product placement is commendalbe as far as journalistic integrity goes, and just because FBook and Twitter are near-omnipresent doesn’t condone their use – you want viewers to have access to additional content via a social networking site? Then embrace the ‘socialism’ of it all and establish a presence on all relevant social networking sites. There should be an app for that.

By: Tracey S.

Tracey S. — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:25:47 +0000

I think is definitely a case of the letter of the law bludgeoning the spirit of the law. Unless France really is that xenophobic…

Facebook and Twitter may be owned by American interests, but they’ve become such a part of life and how we get our news that banning the mention of them would be like banning saying “read more about it on the Internet” or “watch the story on Television” just because those inventions originated in another country and the device you reach them on was also made in another country. Get with the times, people.