Is this the same as this? If the leaked proposals for new French laws are anything to go by, alcohol websites will have to adhere to the same laws as pornography websites. This proposed law, lead by Professor Antoine Louvaris, considers any alcohol advertising, even on the internet, to be a threat to children. France already has the Evin law of 1991 which prohibits the advertising of alcohol on television and cinemas, including sports sponsorship, and has a message that alcohol abuse is dangerous to your health on any legal adverts. These proposed laws would restrict the hours a wine website is allowed to be online, which would draw it in line with pornography sites.I grant you, in Britain we have a government that appears to blame the wine industry for everything wrong in the UK that is alcohol related, whether it is the trade's fault or not, but to put it on a par with pornography is absurd. I could even understand (though not agree with) this movement if it was aimed at a particular category of alcoholic drink (alcopops or spirits for example) but to consider a bottle of Petrus on the internet as bad as a Max Mosley-esque spanking session is absurd.
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