Re:Macron suggests blocking social media during riots
by unpopularopp on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:24PM
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Hate this because it just gives more ammo for authoritarians in the EU like Orban "See they are doing it in France, if the liberal west is ok with it then we can do it as well!"
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Re:Macron suggests blocking social media during riots
by pjmlp on Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:39AM
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As someone from the first generation after Portugal's dictorship, I hate this, because it feels like comming back to the Europe my parents have to live through, and I still experienced as a kid and listening to family stories.
However many seem to only know this from history books, or from other countries outside Europe, so they keep voting for the wrong parties, until it is too late.
Re:Macron suggests blocking social media during riots
by gumballindie on Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:43AM
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Funny how you think what macron wants is legitimate but what orban wants is not, when in fact both are equally wrong. France should absolutely not block social media when the french are rightfully protesting against corruption and poverty just as orban shouldn't when hungarians protest against similar issues in hungary. Those who commit damage and acts of violence should be punished but not the whole society.
The real question is what brought the french this level of despair.