Europe Bans Michael Shellenberger's Public Substack Because It Revealed French President Macron's Illegal Efforts to Suppress Speech That Undermines His Lies

Yesterday, I noted that Michael Shellenberger's excellent Public substack reported on the French Twitter Files (Les Dossiers Francais du Twitter), exposing Macron's pressure on Twitter to stop allowing posts that undermined his false claims.

Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger

TWITTER FILES -- FRANCE

At this moment, the Trump administration is negotiating with the EU over final obstacles to a trade deal, one of which is European censorship of US social media platforms.

Many analysts believe the massive size of the EU will lead US social media firms to impose European censorship, including on Americans. Last year, the EU's then-top digital censor, Thierry Breton, threatened action against Elon Musk after he announced a conversation on X with Donald Trump.

Now, new TWITTER FILES show a coordinated effort by France's President Emmanuel Macron, legislators, and state-affiliated NGOs working together to force the world's most influential social media platform to censor users for legal speech and influence Twitter's worldwide "content moderation" for narrative control.

What's more, TWITTER FILES - FRANCE reveals the birth of the censorship-by-NGO proxy strategy at the heart of the Censorship Industrial Complex:

-- President Macron personally reached out to then-CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey;
-- The timing of Macron's action strongly suggests coordination with NGOs on a pressure campaign to win more censorship and demand sensitive user data from Twitter;
-- The pattern of events indicates potentially illegal activity by various actors.

The TWITTER FILES FRANCE investigation was led by @McmahonPascal and @battleforeurope, and edited by @galexybrane and @shellenberger.

We are releasing the Files here on X and simultaneously publishing a comprehensive report by Clerótte and Fazi on France's invention of the Censorship Industrial Complex.

And, as if they intended to prove Public right about the French War on Speech (I don't favor the French in this war, or any war), France blocked the report from being accessed in Europe.

They're claiming that an article on a respectable platform (Substack) is "malware" that might hijack people's computers.

As has been observed many times: the left/media believes that any time they lose an an election, it's a "crisis" and a sign that "democracy is under attack" the requires them to change the rules and laws to allow the left to maintain power.

We've seen this for decades, but now they're on the edge of extinction, so they're not playing around any longer. They've learned the lesson of Vietnam -- don't just slowly escalate, go full commitment, go nuclear if needed -- and they are now just going to enslave their populations to keep them from reading, speaking, or hearing truths that hurt the regime. Eventually, even this will fail, and they'll just ban opposition parties so that only the Regime-approved parties are even allowed to run for office.

What am I talking about, eventually? They've already banned Marine Le Pen in France and the AfD in Germany.

I guess I mean: The UK will soon contrive a reason to ban the Reform Party, to "save democracy."

Another lesson of Vietnam: We had to destroy the village to save it.

Sharia is coming:

But we have a Crisis, and Sharia might be the answer to that Crisis.

posted by Ace at 03:50 PM

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