Opinion: The New Sheriff in Town

Most ludicrous, offensive and insulting sight of last month: President Sarkozy posturing at the E-G8 Internet conference, standing up to tell the rest of us how France is going to lead the G8 to regulate the Internet for the whole world. You could be kind and regard it as a pre-emptive move to out-flank the US government imposing its' regulation on us (Obama didn't even want it on the agenda). Or you could view it as a short egotist playing politics on the World stage for domestic consumption; using the G8 as a box to stand on to make himself look like a statesman, all the while pandering to a pro-business corporate lobby under the guise of protecting us all from pirates, terrorists and porn...