Nicolas Sarkozy to host key internet forum ahead of G8 summit

The debate over whether - and how far - to regulate the internet is expected to dominate a two day international e-summit which opens in Paris today, hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Top executives from the world’s biggest internet companies will come face to face with the leaders of the industrialized world. One view inspired by firms like Google or Amazon is a hand off approach, the other view now common in Europe tends to be how to control the internet the excesses of the internet, proposing regulation on everything from privacy to copyright issues to completion law.