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 resitance 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 condamnations 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 us what the numeric id is for. Thousands of condemnations in 2022-2024, currently used by Brigitte Macron but politicians as well.
french people were sued for alleged hate crimes in 2023, like antisemitism.

The law SREN was censored in 2024 by the constitutionnal 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’re underestimating 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 surpising to see people changing their mind on what was once our core value.