this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
51 points (100.0% liked)

worldnews

4839 readers
2 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil. Disagreements happen, that does not give you the right to personally insult each other.

  2. No racism or bigotry.

  3. Posts from sources that aren't known to be incredibly biased for either side of the spectrum are preferred. If this is not an option, you may post from whatever source you have as long as it is relevant to this community.

  4. Post titles should be the same as the article title.

  5. No spam, self-promotion, or trolling.

Instance-wide rules always apply.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

The French president has raised the idea of limiting or even cutting off access to social media platforms during episodes of urban violence – a practice until now reserved for authoritarian regimes.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What exactly are they hoping to achieve with that?

Likely to disrupt the ability of anyone protesting against the government to coordinate, using the current riots as an excuse for that. Macron is basically what you get when a Spez becomes president of a government.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Y'all remember when the internat was thrilled this dude beat out Hollande? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yes, but what is the reason they're giving?

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dojan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's the answer I was looking for, thank you.

What flimsy justification. They couldn't have dreamed up a better reason?

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, it's extremely flimsy. But to be fair with Macron, he was just toying with the idea; that's why I compared him with another clown (Spez), due to his inability to think on the impact of his words before saying them. This might potentially never happen, as long as that government's taxpayers keep protesting against their rogue state wannabe.