If France is able to pull this off, and Google doesn't just decide to close all of its French offices, someone will start an uncensored search engine based exclusively in the US, subject only to American jurisdiction. Anyone trying to dig up dirt, like a prospective employer, will search on that instead. You might say, France will then block that search engine. Okay, so people will use one of the hundreds of web proxies that can be easily found by searching "web proxy" on Google, or Tor. And yes, people <i>will</i> go through this trouble, especially in a place where it's almost impossible to fire someone, like France.<p>Sounds like a stupid sword to fall on.