French Tweeters Get Around Ban On Tweeting Election Results Using WWII-Era Codes
from the gouda-cheese dept
Last week, we wrote about how French Twitter users were being warned not to use social media tools like Twitter to reveal local polling or election results before all the French voting booths closed in the Presidential election. We pointed out how silly this was, and it appears that folks in France used a simple mechanism to get around the rules: using WWII-era coding techniques to share information in the same manner that the French Resistance used:As a result, incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy became either Tokaji wine which, like his father, comes from Hungary, or Rolex because of his perceived "bling-bling" lifestyle.From there, it sounds like people just had fun with it, figuring out all sorts of ways to obliquely refer to the different candidates and how well they were doing without directly referring to any of them. Once again, the internet views censorship as an obstacle, and routes around it, through a rather creative form of "encryption."
His Socialist opponent Francois Hollande was either Gouda cheese (from Holland) or a soft, sweet "Flanby" caramel desert -- an old and unforgiving nickname for the portly frontrunner.
Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen was associated with the names of totalitarian regimes or rodents and Communist Party-backed Jean-Luc Melenchon was either a rotten tomato or something linked to the former Soviet Union.
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Mmmm
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I'll need to remember this when our new overlords decide to do something similar. Then again, aren't exit-polls just a low-tech version of twitter?
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What's also scary is that the French ultra-right still manages to sound reasonably sane compared to certain other right-wing electoral groups...
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Nice!
+1 to the Frenchies....
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@Roger
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The Gamekeeper has put a new fence to protectect the Fat Pigs but the Frogs found a gap in the links and exploted it to the full potential, well dont to them. Trolls are exepcted to follow soon.
London out.. I repeat.. London out
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Foiled again
Dear Internet Users,
As your hero, I humbly request that you quit foiling all good intentions that your wonderful government is doing. We the government know what is best for the people, because we are also people. So just obey us, and quit being so sneaky.
V/R
Capt ICE Enforcer
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Adolf Ratler?
Rabbit Mugabe?
Josef Gerbils?
Benito Mousellini?
(I can't think of any more...)
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Is this ban a bad thing?
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Good move, pollies, use censorship, same as the Nazis, then have the people use the same technique as they used in WWII. How to get yourselves viewed as no better than Nazis. Sarkozy will now have plenty of time to consider his mistakes. Will the others now get the message?
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Why do they bother anymore? Just install whatever tyrant and get it all over with...
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