The problem is that the internet has muddied what it means to do business in a country. If a Frenchman does a Google search, is that really Google doing business in France? Or even more ridiculously, what if I, who am not French, search for information about a French business or citizen? France seems to think it should have some power in these situations. That's not a reasonable demand.

I sincerely hope Google refuses to bend just to see if France has the balls to try and enforce their dumb laws. Maybe they will set up their own national search engine "froogle" that will refuse to perform searches for 12 hours every week because it's on strike.