The French regulators came back, saying „don‘t care, censor globally.“ Finally, last month, Google made a small change to try to appease the regulators, saying that it wouldn‘t just censor based on the top level domain, but entirely on whether or not it thought you were in France, based on your IP address or other indicators. So, even if you were in France, you couldn‘t get around the block by typing the „.com“ address in instead of the „.fr.“

And now, the French regulators have decided, once again, that this just isn‘t good enough. I