An absolute wannabe authoritarian brute. The institution pushing back against outrage could (and probably already has) lead to a massive Streisand effect.
The police murdered a young student electrician for ‘refusing to comply’ with a checkpoint set up outside an Algerian ghetto. His capital crime he was likely trying to avoid arrest? Driving without a license.
This riot wasn’t caused by social media, or Nahel’s murder for that matter. It was caused by systemic racism in France. Macron is trying to scapegoat and shut down social media because the kind of peace we wants can be destroyed by truth.
Isn’t rioting part of French pastime that predates social media by like over a century or so?
Anyway, maybe if he gets those domain name block lists installed on browsers like he wants, he can just shut them down altogether at any time.
France has been a big fan of revolution since the late 18th century. They’re on their Fifth Republic and I’m sure some French people feel they’re overdue for a Sixth, just for the sake of keeping the tradition alive.
Meanwhile, the United States will have it’s 247th “If it’s broken, don’t fix it” celebration in three days.
“We wouldn’t have civil unrest if the peasants couldn’t communicate!” - his thought process I’m guessing.
I’m surprised that this guy is still at the helm.
When the alternative to him was Marine Le Pen, it’s hardly surprising most people wanted him and not an open fascist.
Lots of us wanted neither, we juqt settled for 5 more years of “Macron the dipshit that is covertly racist” to avoid 5 years of “Le Pen the dipshit that is overtly racist”. And we hate every minute of it.
I feel that’s a lot of countries right now. USA didn’t want Biden, but it was better than Trump. The UK is facing an election where we’ll have to chose between Starmer or Sunak(?).
The system feels broken beyond repair.
