

What’s not said is that France’s censorship laws are so authoritarian that we kidnapped a 18 y.o. iranian woman 6 months ago for terrorism apologia because she supported the palestinian resistance to israeli colonization : Mahdieh Esfandiari
We don’t know if it’s a simple release of hostages or if Iran obtained something.
The number of condemnations for terrorism apologia were zero in 2011, five in 2012, 2013, and 2014, but 338 in 2015 and 447 in 2016(, source), because we are Charlie or sthg.
Now it has become a habit, with 60 condemnations for the first quarter of 2025, and we’re still adding new laws to condemn those who think differently from the power in place : disinformation, diffamation, incitation to hate(, 4200), infringements of image rights or privacy, …
There’s also cyberbullying, used to condemn opponents who said something true, but since other netizens sent mean tweets you’re responsible for up to 2-3 years in jail and the new technical possibility of banning you from every social medias for up to 5 years, which is what the numeric identity is for. Thousands of condemnations in 2022-2024, currently used by Brigitte Macron but politicians as well
The law SREN was censored in 2024 by the constitutional council, but the Digital Service Acts does something similar anyway.
It’s not online(, yet?), but the offense of contempt of public authority condemns tens of thousands of citizens each year.
Anyway, our sole argument for sanctioning “dictatorships” all over the world is freedom, especially freedom of speech to western-backed opponents, it’s at the core of our accusations and now we’re giving up on our only argument.
As of now we still believe that we’re more free than the dictatorships we’re fighting against, because we underestimate our authoritarianism and overestimate theirs, and also because we’re forcing them to protect themselves from our attacks.
Sure, continue to destroy our internet, why would i care anyway, it’s none of my concern, just so surprising to see people changing their mind on what was once our core value(, i just saw that but it’s every single day, and one more found randomly a few minutes later, or that one(, they also banned PressTv)).











They declared the 31st of October a national holiday.
Once again our politics are acting according to a “realpolitik” betraying our alleged ideals, while our population is misinformed by our capitalist-owned medias and unspecialized&rushed journalists, otherwise we’d respect the will of the local population.
A referendum was promised since 1991, but Morocco insisted that the moroccan settlers should be allowed to take part in it, since they know that otherwise they’d certainly lose.
We’ll support separatism in other countries while refusing to support the local population in Palestine, Crimea, the Donbass, or here. It’s not only about double standards, but a refutation of our universal values. We’re not about aiming for righteousness/justice/goodness/…( anymore ?), but about whatever serves our interest, logically generating the world we deserve.
Anyway, that’s how terrorists are created, if i was a sahrawi(, and didn’t desire to be moroccan, united in diversity, which seems to be case for almost all of them), then i’d support Bashir Mustafa Sayed.
But hypocritical westerners will oppose terrorism because “violence is never the answer”.
Or it’s just one more example of ‘our double standards’/‘whatever suits our interests’. We don’t even have a well-defined public goal(, with intermediary objectives).
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Interesting quote from Confucius(, who cares about appearances, only the substance counts) : https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1986266604926345512
(source, also here with a clear downfall post-2001 and obviously in the 60s-70s, France is no exception with a long-standing mistrust)
Even our journalists don’t trust our politicians, and then we complain about the rise of populists, who claim to at least be honest even if they don’t appear as competent/knowledgeable.
E.Macron talked about pedagogy in the past, something new ‘needed to be’/‘could have been’ created, but he gave up because nothing is ever simple, yet our distrust will continue to stay low, or even fall further, if nothing is done(, more censorship of foreign(&domestic) opponents can’t be the only solution, along with buying newspapers and blocking new candidates from obtaining mayoral endorsements).
I’d personally argue for the solution of direct democracy, even progressively with only 2-3 referendums each year, but there’s undoubtedly dozens of solutions, and we seem to continue on the current/old path without changing anything.