"Pure and simple censorship."
Several politicians including the vice-president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, and the former FN deputy for Vaucluse, Marion Maréchal, saw some of their messages posted on Facebook deleted by the social network, this Sunday.
Their distribution on this network is now
"limited"
and their page threatened with
"unpublication"
warned the platform.
In question, the publication this weekend of messages of support for the Generation Identity movement, which is currently the subject of a dissolution procedure by the Ministry of the Interior.
The number 2 of the party of Marine Le Pen had relayed on his Facebook page the press release of his party, denouncing a
"liberticidal drift of the government."
The director of ISSEP had for her part relayed a petition against the government's decision.
So many publications considered by Facebook as
“repeated breaches of community standards.”
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“I have not published anything that could give
rise to
controversy,
protests Jordan Bardella to Le Figaro.
Social networks have given themselves the right to control public speech.
After censoring the President of the United States, they have no limit.
We are entering a climate of supervision of freedoms of expression.
It's very worrying! ”
On January 6, after pro-Trump activists invaded the US Capitol in Washington, both Twitter and Facebook's decision to censor and then suspend the accounts of the former President of the United States moved a party. from the political class on this side of the Atlantic.
"
There is a real questioning that questions us, we French too: Can large private companies like the digital giants decide who has the right to speak, what we have the right to say? ?
“,
Was then questioned at the microphone of France 2, Marine Le Pen.
“
Today it is Trump's interventions, tomorrow it may be something else.
We have before us this danger, that the social networks are cut off to us too,
had also alerted on his YouTube channel, the leader of rebellious France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
One year and a few weeks before the next presidential election, the advisability of censorship on social networks, such as that of the legitimacy of platforms to do so or not, has not finished asking questions.
