New Twitter Files reveal how French political authorities, NGOs and courts worked to pressure Twitter (now X) into censorship — further consolidating France's post-war censorship-industrial complex
so essentially what you are suggesting is the elites are threatened, so they are fully on board with the censorship security complex.... that sounds valid.. it seems to me the amount of censorship in many of the western countries - not just france - is ramping up and heading off the charts... i attribute much of this to the intel agencies who can fictitiously claim all sorts of nonsense without having to prove any of it.. case in point - russiagate from 2018 which is shown to be a made up fiction...
so my question is on DGSE, France’s foreign intelligence service - how does this differ any from 5 eyes, or 6 eyes if we include mossad in the intel agency conglomerate?? it seems to me these intel agencies are driving much of the policy and the policy is to clamp down and suppress alternative viewpoints, or any alternative ideology which threatens the status quo... therefore we always have to be at war and at odds with russia and china, no matter if it is just as possible to get along... the intel agencies seem to work in collaboration with the military industrial complex, both protecting each other while building up their fortunes.. the politicians are only too happy to comply with this ongoing agenda which doesn't serve the people of the planet one bit..
maybe AI will help to make it all worse.. i can't see it making any of it better..
Reporters without borders (but with gov funding) another French NGO, has this to say about FR and US press freedom:
US #57 out of 180.
'After a century of gradual expansion of press rights in the United States, the country is experiencing its first significant and prolonged decline in press freedom in modern history, and Donald Trump’s return to the presidency is greatly exacerbating the situation...
While the media in the United States generally operate free from government interference, media ownership is highly concentrated, and many of the companies buying American media outlets appear to prioritize profits over public interest journalism'
FR #25 out of 180. (Apparently press freedom in FR is twice as delicieux as its frère in the US).
'While the legal and regulatory framework is favourable to press freedom, the mechanisms aimed at combatting conflicts of interest in the media and protecting the confidentiality of sources are insufficient, inadequate, and outdated. The public broadcast media are undermined by the lack of sustainable funding caused by the elimination of the TV licence fee. Despite the adoption of a new method of maintaining order during demonstrations, more respectful of journalists’ rights, reporters continue to be subjected to police violence in addition to physical attacks by demonstrators'
Thank you and you colleagues for this reporting!!!
I’m curious about who made this information available to you — if it was Musk/X themselves, are they keeping it a secret? If it was a whistleblower, will you share that info?
The reason I ask is that the timing of these revelations is relevant due, as you note, to the trade negotiations so I wonder who might be trying to influence those?
I also wonder who might be trying to focus our attention on European countries’ and EU’s censorship efforts, bolstering the “Trump champions free speech” mythology, while this US administration is actually rated worse on censorship by organizations like FIRE than even the god-awful “Biden” one. It’s just that they are censoring speech the right doesn’t care about or is happy to see suppressed.
Considering the massive damage that conspiracy theorists and trolls and Russian bots have done to American politics, to the point where American stupid people voted for Trump, and voted to deport all their key workers including the people who grow, process and deliver their food, and voted-in a conspiracy theorist RFK to dismantle the vaccination system for kids and vulnerable adults that has already directly resulted in a Measles epidemic......
No, I think Macron and the others trying to stop evil and stupid assholes manipulating stupid people with their misinformation and lies is a Good Thing!
Irresponsible 'free speech' is not a 'Right' to be abused at will. Americans need to grow up and start to live in the real world.
No, we were discussing free speech. If free speech means racism, hatred, misogyny, political extremism, bot attacks, and victimisation of individuals for expressing their views, then there is no right in any civilised country to express that hatred.
America talks about free speech as an absolute, but has NEVER truly practised it. You guys really do need to grow up about the reality of things and stop talking in absolutes, black and white, this or that. America has always been a racist, misogynistic, and unequal country that thrives of its differences and superiorities. Class is wealth and money and power. Poverty means dismissal and condemnation.
so essentially what you are suggesting is the elites are threatened, so they are fully on board with the censorship security complex.... that sounds valid.. it seems to me the amount of censorship in many of the western countries - not just france - is ramping up and heading off the charts... i attribute much of this to the intel agencies who can fictitiously claim all sorts of nonsense without having to prove any of it.. case in point - russiagate from 2018 which is shown to be a made up fiction...
so my question is on DGSE, France’s foreign intelligence service - how does this differ any from 5 eyes, or 6 eyes if we include mossad in the intel agency conglomerate?? it seems to me these intel agencies are driving much of the policy and the policy is to clamp down and suppress alternative viewpoints, or any alternative ideology which threatens the status quo... therefore we always have to be at war and at odds with russia and china, no matter if it is just as possible to get along... the intel agencies seem to work in collaboration with the military industrial complex, both protecting each other while building up their fortunes.. the politicians are only too happy to comply with this ongoing agenda which doesn't serve the people of the planet one bit..
maybe AI will help to make it all worse.. i can't see it making any of it better..
thanks for your posts!
Reporters without borders (but with gov funding) another French NGO, has this to say about FR and US press freedom:
US #57 out of 180.
'After a century of gradual expansion of press rights in the United States, the country is experiencing its first significant and prolonged decline in press freedom in modern history, and Donald Trump’s return to the presidency is greatly exacerbating the situation...
While the media in the United States generally operate free from government interference, media ownership is highly concentrated, and many of the companies buying American media outlets appear to prioritize profits over public interest journalism'
https://rsf.org/en/country/united-states
Etc etc
FR #25 out of 180. (Apparently press freedom in FR is twice as delicieux as its frère in the US).
'While the legal and regulatory framework is favourable to press freedom, the mechanisms aimed at combatting conflicts of interest in the media and protecting the confidentiality of sources are insufficient, inadequate, and outdated. The public broadcast media are undermined by the lack of sustainable funding caused by the elimination of the TV licence fee. Despite the adoption of a new method of maintaining order during demonstrations, more respectful of journalists’ rights, reporters continue to be subjected to police violence in addition to physical attacks by demonstrators'
https://rsf.org/en/country/france
That 'conflict of interest' they mention no doubt is about the new(er) competion i.e. right wing media growing fast in FR (why would that be?).
But, clearly, to this FR gov funded NGO the ideal sitaution is as follows:
We speak, you listen.
Say thanks.
Thank you and you colleagues for this reporting!!!
I’m curious about who made this information available to you — if it was Musk/X themselves, are they keeping it a secret? If it was a whistleblower, will you share that info?
The reason I ask is that the timing of these revelations is relevant due, as you note, to the trade negotiations so I wonder who might be trying to influence those?
I also wonder who might be trying to focus our attention on European countries’ and EU’s censorship efforts, bolstering the “Trump champions free speech” mythology, while this US administration is actually rated worse on censorship by organizations like FIRE than even the god-awful “Biden” one. It’s just that they are censoring speech the right doesn’t care about or is happy to see suppressed.
Macron is nothing but a Rothschild maiden spreading Zionist death and destruction the world over. The French government needs to be put down.
Considering the massive damage that conspiracy theorists and trolls and Russian bots have done to American politics, to the point where American stupid people voted for Trump, and voted to deport all their key workers including the people who grow, process and deliver their food, and voted-in a conspiracy theorist RFK to dismantle the vaccination system for kids and vulnerable adults that has already directly resulted in a Measles epidemic......
No, I think Macron and the others trying to stop evil and stupid assholes manipulating stupid people with their misinformation and lies is a Good Thing!
Irresponsible 'free speech' is not a 'Right' to be abused at will. Americans need to grow up and start to live in the real world.
The Supreme Court would disagree with you. Free speech is not just for those whose opinions you approve of.
No, free speech is for those that agree with Trump. Proven, time and time again.
Quit trying to change the subject. Trump is detestable, but he is not the issue here. We were discussing your support for totalitarianism here.
No, we were discussing free speech. If free speech means racism, hatred, misogyny, political extremism, bot attacks, and victimisation of individuals for expressing their views, then there is no right in any civilised country to express that hatred.
America talks about free speech as an absolute, but has NEVER truly practised it. You guys really do need to grow up about the reality of things and stop talking in absolutes, black and white, this or that. America has always been a racist, misogynistic, and unequal country that thrives of its differences and superiorities. Class is wealth and money and power. Poverty means dismissal and condemnation.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Free speech means speech that you don't like, including speech that you or I find objectionable.
The rest of your screed is a series of thought terminating cliches.