Posted on 07/26/2025 1:41:57 PM PDT by DFG
If you have any doubt that the European Union is devolving into a soft totalitarian state, think again.
I have been sounding the alarm bells about the developments in Europe for as long as I have been writing at Hot Air, and some of you may have thought me an alarmist engaged in hyperbole. I am alarmed, of course, but by real threats to freedom.
The latest assault on freedom--not just in Europe, because the EU and Great Britain are using their criminal and regulatory powers to suppress speech in the US as well as other countries--comes with the breaking news that the French authorities are classifying Elon Musk's X platform as an 'organized crime group' and is vigorously investigating the company (and presumably its management and owners) in a criminal case.
I learned of this development from, of all places, the US State Department, which blasted France for its abuse of prosecutorial power to censor speech.
As part of a criminal investigation, an activist French prosecutor is requesting information on X’s proprietary algorithm and has classified X as an “organized crime group.” Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard, not silence speech they dislike. The United States will defend the free speech of all Americans against acts of foreign censorship.
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This is not fair because ALL Mega-Corporations are an organized crime group. lol
Corporatism is not Competitive Capitalism, it is fascism...
And they scream about Fascists ... they are them.
France doesn’t have free speech so this makes sense.
Because they can no longer control it. They’ve been bullying these platforms, including YouTube, for years. A UK government panel literally beside itself that Tommy Robinson was a top video on their YouTube feed. Demanding(!) that they “do something about this”.
They cucked. So did Twitter. Tommy was banned from everywhere, resorting to chat apps like Telegram. After X was bought by Musk, his account was reactivated. This can’t be tolerated!!
The line of thinking is that, unlike regular speech, ‘offensive and hateful’ comments put online don’t just disappear, they STAY UP!! Oh noes! Yes, it’s like somebody wrote something and PUBLISHED IT IN A BOOK!!!
They’re straight up tyrants. All leftists as usual.
I declare France a shithole country
ELON MIGHT MAKE UP STOCK MARKET LOSSES WITH A SERIOUS LAWSUIT
....but Islam is peaceful.
Lol.
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