[HN Gopher] Macron suggests blocking social media during riots
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       Macron suggests blocking social media during riots
        
       Author : KolmogorovComp
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-07-05 19:41 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.lemonde.fr)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.lemonde.fr)
        
       | rvz wrote:
       | You got who you voted for. (again)
        
         | touisteur wrote:
         | More precisely, we got who we brought to power in all
         | elections, local up to national elections, in the last 20 years
         | or so.
         | 
         | The choices given in the last elections were between mostly
         | shades of authoritarianism, and I don't believe any other major
         | candidate would have behaved any better here, and that's not to
         | defend Macron's recent accelerated downward spiral... and most
         | people were complaining about the _available_ choices in
         | presidential and parliamentary elections (as I did). We got the
         | people we voted for (or refused to vote for, too, see
         | abstention numbers) at all levels. You don 't get a national-
         | level movement without feet on the ground and a constant
         | political effort.
        
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       | JimtheCoder wrote:
       | This will definitely de-escalate things and make similar
       | situations easier to deal with in the future.../s
        
       | tiznow wrote:
       | Arab Spring, anyone?
        
       | unpopularopp wrote:
       | 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!"
        
       | superb_dev wrote:
       | Slippery slope towards shutting off the internet entirely during
       | protests
        
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