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.
I think the middle ground would be people thinking critically and not blindly trusting anything. It’s the mindset of ‘accept as truth what comes from this authority’, be the authority Alex Jones or Obama, that mindset needs to go.
I agree there should be legislation in place to be able to take actions against those kinds of people, but at the same time the government isn’t the internet police.
Yep they’re blaming everything from bank failures to riots on social media. They’re framing it as dangerous for people in supposed democracies to communicate with each other. Really don’t like the road this goes down
Wow, this is exactly what was done in Hong Kong. The situation there was a little more serious though.
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I think the middle ground would be people thinking critically and not blindly trusting anything. It’s the mindset of ‘accept as truth what comes from this authority’, be the authority Alex Jones or Obama, that mindset needs to go.
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The people writing the stories certainly have the time and should have the qualifications…
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I agree there should be legislation in place to be able to take actions against those kinds of people, but at the same time the government isn’t the internet police.
Yep they’re blaming everything from bank failures to riots on social media. They’re framing it as dangerous for people in supposed democracies to communicate with each other. Really don’t like the road this goes down