Ivan Rioufol is a journalist at Le Figaro and essayist. He has just published Les traiteurs (Pierre Guillaume de Roux, 2020). This column was originally published on his personal blog .
The beleaguered macronia calls for censorship. But she had better be alarmed at her casual behavior. Listening to the majority rally commenting on the Griveaux affair, it would be necessary to put Twitter under surveillance, relaunch the criminalization of "fake news" and words considered hateful, prohibit anonymity on the networks.
Power is unleashed to try to limit freedom of expression a little more, instead of wondering about the crisis in democracy that it has aggravatedIn short, power is unleashed in an attempt to limit freedom of expression a little more, instead of wondering about the crisis of democracy that it has aggravated itself. Was it not Emmanuel Macron who promised an exemplary Republic? In this case, the disclosure of a pornographic scene filmed by the former candidate LREM at the town hall of Paris was not done anonymously. Neither Twitter nor "fake news" has anything to do with this whistleblowing case. Macronia has never been outdone to applaud this culture of public humiliation promoted by #BalanceTonPorc and #Meetoo. She never wanted to worry about unproven accusations made here and there by vigilantes, some of whom have since been convicted of defamation. The operation #BalanceTonMaire, promoted last October by elected LREM with the blessing of Gérald Darmanin against elected officials having increased their housing taxes, was part of this detestable drift of the accusation without a judge. Marlène Schiappa pursues this same law of suspects with her “ name and shame Against companies accused by wrongdoers of discriminating in hiring.
This case is part of a trivialization of the virtuous denunciation in which the macronie participated.The process which pushed Griveaux to resign is obviously odious. As it was odious to hear, in another register, Robert Bourgi congratulate himself for having "fucked" François Fillon, the favorite of the presidential, by offering him expensive costumes. In both cases, the extreme lightness of the two men is akin to political mistakes. The fact remains that these practices, the zero degree of democratic debate, are part of this trivialization of virtuous denunciation in which the macronie participated. After #BalanceTonPorc, then #BalanceTonMaire, here is #BalanceTonCandidat.
History is filled with these low blows intended to make fall the adversary.Seeing in this destabilizing operation the hand of Moscow, as the president suggests, is a conspiracy that Macron likes to denounce among others. In reality, History is filled with these low blows intended to make fall the adversary. Queen Marie-Antoinette was falsely accused of the worst sexual turpides to weigh down her case. The former boss of Le Figaro, Gaston Calmette, was killed in his office in March 1914 by two bullets fired by the wife of Minister Joseph Caillaux, the target of a violent press campaign by the newspaper. Calmette went so far as to publish the intimate and sexual letters that Caillaux wrote to his mistress at the time (who was to become the woman with the revolver) and that he signed: "Ton Jo". Rather than attacking scapegoats (social networks, Russia), the political class should question its responsibility in its demagogic promotions of denunciation, exemplarity and transparency.
So many words that come back to him in boomerang.
