France has banned the mention of Facebook or Twitter on French TV

This is getting very serious.


Source: http://www.bijemi.com/viewnewspublic/91

France likely wanted d owners pay them royalty for d perceived subtle adverts d mention of these fora gets from d national tv.

I agree with you but I don't think that's the main reason. The argument is that there are other social networking sites/businesses out there and Facebook and twitter are getting unfair advantage over others which is not healthy for competition.

Take Nigeria as an example. I know there may be 1 or 2 social networking or related sites and nobody is mentioning them. Do you know what would happen to Nigeria economy, employment and all if the local media patronize them?

Besides France's presidential election is around the corner so they don't want what happened in Egypt, Tunisia etc. to happen in France.