RebelapplianceMacron's call to 'cut off' social media during riots sparks backlash in France
MatharlNo shit, check the list of countries who cut informations from their people and you’ll easily understand why it causes a backlash.
China, Iran, North Korea to name a few.
Every day, we stray further away from democracy with Macron, Le Pen is gonna win next time and it will be mainly because of him.
Well most of the EU countries including France blocked all media channels from Russia
Media channels from Russia are basically just spouting putin propaganda so why would they want to be subjected to that?
Many countries are spewing propaganda bullshit, including and in majority coming from USA. I don’t think media channels from USA should be blocked.
Switzerland is doing the right thing, they never blocked any news channel or limiting freedom of speech in that way.
Freedom of speech should never be given as an excuse for allowing hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism or anything else on that vein a platform.
The problem comes when you let the government decide what is “hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism”.
It gives government too much power to control the opposition by censorship.
What, as apposed to corporations and companies like Twitter, Facebook and reddit? Lol
Including corporations, that’s why we are all on lemmy, is it not? 😉
Flying SquidWhat exactly do you propose to do about hate speech, racism, bigotry and fascism being spread on social media as propaganda, ignore it and hope no one sees it and gets radicalized? We’re already seeing people become terrorists after being radicalized by Internet media. and you would have us just hope we’re not in the line of fire when it happens again, I guess?
First of all, the USA is not the center of the world, the problems you guys have with mass shooting is not related to “hate speech”.
I literally showed you an example where someone was radicalized by hate speech on the internet. Here is another example. I can keep providing them if you would like.
And it’s not just an American problem.
Again, should we just ignore that and hope we’re not in the line of fire?