KittiesAreCute!
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago

French president wants to cut off social media during protests

www.france24.com

external-link
message-square
92
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • world@lemmy.world
  • news@beehaw.org
681
external-link

French president wants to cut off social media during protests

www.france24.com

AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago
message-square
92
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • world@lemmy.world
  • news@beehaw.org
Macron's call to 'cut off' social media during riots sparks backlash in France
www.france24.com
external-link
President Emmanuel Macron's government faced a backlash Wednesday after the centrist leader called for powers to "cut off" social media in case of widespread violence like riots over the past week.
  • Cryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    115
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    3 years ago

    Macron trying to go full fascist I see.

    • xc2215x@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      38
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 years ago

      The scary thing is that he seemed more reasonable than Le Pen.

      • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        53
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 years ago

        well, he is, but it’s like saying spastic colon is less awful than leprosy

        • Tyfud@lemmy.one
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          27
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          3 years ago

          well, it is, but it’s like saying EA is less awful than Monsanto

          • foggy@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            16
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            3 years ago

            Well they are, but that’s like saying Kanye is less awful than Lost Prophets.

            • czl@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              3 years ago

              Well, he is, but that’s saying Macron is less seagull than Le Pen. Wait…

    • sirnak@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      3 years ago

      At least it’s straight out of Erdogans playbook

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 3.07K users / day
  • 9.05K users / week
  • 14.2K users / month
  • 29.9K users / 6 months
  • 2 local subscribers
  • 78.5K subscribers
  • 15.9K Posts
  • 576K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.world
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.15
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org