I am against emi ent domain but at least it is justified by the fact that there are no alternatives. A road between two points must pass through some land, but if a domain name for your website isn't available don't be a bully and buy another one. Also you have to compensate with eminent domain, you can't just take. Not in decent societies anyway. What we have here is maximum statism. A bunch of french bureaucrats had some stupid idea on how to spend stolen taxpayers money to "improve" society, and they used their position to steal a domain name from a guy who was minding his own business. In this case bureaucrats should be condemned as if they were thief.

> In this case bureaucrats should be condemned as if they were thief.

I don't think the public gets to go scott free in this. France is a democracy. If the French government does something, all French people are responsible for it. That's what the world says about us, why not France?

Individuals should have more rights and more freedoms than nations.

The UN having any such powers is a long way off, for now you get your rights ensured by your country.

In 47 countries, people can appeal to the ECHR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights

Though I don't think they deal with domain names.

How did you find clients with a boring company? I love "boring" stuff btw, I feel like I helped more people doing boring stuff (tech support, simple automation) than the "hip" stuff

What a friend did years ago was put up flyers in local office buildings.