Some countries have a president who publishes video-blogs on the country's government website (1), others have one whose main concern is to have control over what you can and cannot watch over your private internet connection.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his government are pushing for the introduction of an "internet police" which would have the right to close off your internet connection if you do things they don't like, and has started preparing legal changes to this end.

In order to justify the setting up of such a force, all the Great Evils of the Internet have been lined up; everything from copyright violation and peer-to-peer downloading to the threat that your children will be exposed to child pornography.

In an interview for French newspaper Le Figaro, as quoted by heise-online.co.uk (2), French minister of family affairs Nadine Morano said 60 per cent of children between the ages of six and 10 use the internet, "where they may encounter offensive material". She then went on to mention "millions of images of child pornography", stating that "discussions on having ISPs block websites containing images of child pornography were continuing".

It famously took Bulgaria's National Agency for State Security five days of investigation to discover the owners of a Bulgarian-run website and have it closed down. Apparently French investigators could still learn something from their Bulgarian colleagues.

Morano has a blog (3), but it seems to not have been updated since the end of last year. Maybe Morano should get online more often.
The second argument for the introduction of an "internet police" is the fight against copyright violations.

If Stephanie Lenz and her children would have lived in France-as-Sarkozy-sees-it, she would not only have had the video of her 18-month-old, dancing to the tune of Let's Go Crazy, yanked from YouTube at the request of the author of said tune, the artist formerly known as Prince (4). She would also risk having her internet connection cut off for copyright violation, as well as the connection of her relatives and friends with whom she shared the video via YouTube for watching the clip.

In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal (5), Stanford Law School professor of law and founder of its Center for Internet and Society, Lawrence Lessig makes a convincing argument why criminalising mothers and children for sharing content, is not a good idea and leads to children growing up convinced they are criminals, and will ultimately behave as such, undermining the entire notion of rule of law.
Maybe it is time we add internet savvyness to the list of requirements for the position of president.

1. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/600/42/371501.htm
2. http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/France-in-favour-of-international-internet-police--/111455
3. http://www.nadine-morano.com
4. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/30/pennsylvania_mom_sues_universal_over_prince_laden_video_clip/
5. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122367645363324303.html