US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter.

"activist" even trying to discredit foreign federal bureaus by framing them as politically motivated lmao what a bunch of fucking crooks in the US admin.

Censorship is when the French ask "what are you doing?"

Oh Rene...what are you doing with the painting of the fallen Madonna with the big boobies?

Hasn’t Elon been found multiple times suppressing people who say things he doesn’t like?

Them: Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard

Us: Free Palestine

Them: Terrorist!

Of course the US will fight tooth and nail to keep its propaganda machines at work all around the globe.

While defunding NPR and PBS.
Except that Trump is currently trying to dismantle Voice of America" and other propaganda machines around the globe.
- It's ok when he does it. There is no such thing as a Republican who is able to be shamed by hypocrisy. It's their super power.
- VoA is competing with the private sector propaganda wing.
  This is just American Libertarianism taken to its logical conclusion. The mistake the Communists made was thinking Pravda didn't need to turn an enormous profit.
- that's great, they have always been poison
- While being the biggest pusher of propaganda in US history.
  And VOA was only "propaganda" when you consider objective information to be "propaganda", like dumbfuck Trumpers do.
  Since 1976 the Charter and later the 1994 International Broadcasting Act legally forbid government officials from dictating content. Don't worry about facts, though.
  Trump himself tried to make it a propaganda outlet, doing the exact opposite of what you credit him for. He put Michael Pack in charge who sidelined editors, froze visas for foreign reporters and scrapped long‑standing “fire‑wall” rules that protect editorial independence.
- yeah i guess trump represents a greater shift towards inward politics. not interfering with the rest of the world so much, just doing internal stuff.

100% "X is an organized crime group". if you count brainwashing as a crime, which i do.

they're manipulating public opinion towards what the rich want to hear. it's all propaganda.

elon musk bought twitter to conduct "social engineering" after doing classical engineering before at tesla. it's all just a way to control what people think, and it's partially working. the people need to get off commercial social media and use something community-hosted, like the fediverse. to reduce the tinkering with recommendation algorithms and also to reduce the bot army.

Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard, not silence speech they dislike.

That's real fucking rich coming from the government that:

Removed all references to "trans-" regardless of context.
Retaliates against left-leaning press.
Calls information they dislike "fake news".
Sends immigrants to concentration camps.

Don't forget
removed funding for weather services or deleted materials related to climate change
runs from people trying to ask them questions
- If we're adding "runs from people trying to ask them questions", we should be more accurate about it.
  runs from people trying to ask them questions, calling them plants put there by political opponents
That's the regressive mindset for you. When they say 'all', they mean themselves.
- They don't want to be forced to listen to what YOU have to say, but they want to force YOU to listen to what they have to say.
EU is not much better.
You have to be real careful with controversial subjects such as not liking genocide.
And plenty countries have forbidden communism.
Not to mention not honoring elections in Romania and anulling them, and not letting the winning party participate again.
Even if it is a horrible right-wing party that won, that is still a mask off moment.
I'm not even joking, I thought that whoever wrote this tweet was supporting the French investigation when I first read that.
No no, you don't understand. That doesn't apply to us plebs (US citizens). It only applies to other countries so that the government can checks notes "strongly condemn" them.
so what do they do with transport? Or foreign companies using trans in their name?
- I’m waiting for the conniption when all these people find out that the cars and trucks they drive have transmissions.
- What did they do indeed

But Twitter censors all kinds of posts? There is no free speech on Twitter. Just try posting the word cisgendered and see what happens.

us only likes their own censorship

By condemning this, the "US" is shooting itself in the foot.

Ever since Twitter owner used Twitter to say Canada "wasn't a real country", no Canadian should be using Twitter. That wasn't just bias, it was an "in your face and screw you" kind of bias.

US condemns....

Good. That means you're doing the right thing. Keep doing it.

Translation help from Fascist English to US English:

"activist" = a non-politician whose free speech we don't like
"allow all voices to be heard" / "free speech" = extremist/unconstitutional/propaganda speech which serves the interests of the current fascist regime must be allowed, while every other speech will be labelled as being activist/communist/un-American/...
"defend [...] all Americans" = at least the part of Americans which we tolerate or haven't jailed yet (subject to change)

Kyub's right.

Martin: Organized crime?
Cosmo: Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.
– Sneakers (1992)

Twitter is absolutely going to say "well, we're definitely not an organised hate group. Sometimes people just hate stuff. We're just a social media platform, helping people organise. Oh shit"

so ... it's not an "organized hate group" but an "organizing hate" group?

Ask Stephen Colbert about the US' vaunted "free speech".

His free speech was never infringed. He can say what he wants and not be prosecuted for it. Whether or not he has a job isn't covered by the First Amendment.
- Despite being an "entertainment" show, satirical media is still media, and covered by the First. These shows still rely on that protection against lawsuits, and have been exhonerated with the same defence, Cobert in particular. If you could prove government interference in this case, I'd say there was a pretty good basis for a court case based on freedom of the press, which is the corollary of free speech.
Colbert didn't go to prison, not really a good argument.
- There are many ways to suppress speech.
- Colbert didn’t go to prison
  Trump unloads in late-night rants threatening to prosecute news networks, Beyonce, Oprah and Kamala Harris
  I'm sure Colbert's on the list somewhere.
- Why is this downvoted? It correctly point out what "free speech" actually means.

Just block it in Europe already. Or give Musk daily-increasing fines so he has it turned off in the EU.

Just block it in Europe already.
The Brazil Government did this for a week and immediately extracted big concessions from Elon. Really curious to see the EU so reluctant to employ a tried-and-true tactic... assuming you believe these governments are adversarial to American plutocrats.
The Uk is never gonna block anything from the US let's be honest, the EU might and maybe the rest of Europe, but the UK will not follow.
- As a UKian, this is unfortunately true. No matter how many of us want to just cut off the US completely, the government will always capitulate.
- No chance
Our leaders will try not to anger the master too much.
- then we need new master, i guess?

Twitter only allows nazi speech now.

EU just rolled over on trade with US. If anyone hopes for some actual fight against US and US corporations coming for Europe they will be disappointment.

Very disappointing indeed. Hoping to at least see continued work on digital independence, especially in governmental entities.
- and social media
Vasals gonna vasal
EU just rolled over on trade with US.
Controlled Opposition. The plutocrats in Europe and the plutocrats in America have been working hand-in-glove for over a century. This is no different than the German government "rolling over" for IBM and Ford and Coca-Cola in the 1930s.

It is not censorship. This is not a government telling you what to publish or not. This is just finding out how a company is abusing its product to influence politics.

As part of a criminal investigation, an activist American payment network is requesting to stop selling video games that they seem inappropriate and has basically treated itch.io, Steam, etc. as an “organized crime group.” Democratic governments should allow all games to be played, not silence things they dislike. The United States will defend the free prudence of all Americans against acts of foreign fun.

You have to believe that the French government have evaluated in the same week the risk of recognising Palestine and condemning a US company against how vindictive the US government are right now. Hopefully they stick to their guns on both.

The only thing I condemn the French inquiry on is that it should have already happened.

Why are they defending an app/website that has essentially become a knockoff of Stormfront?

because the us government is essentially a knockoff of stormfront

USA can straight up go fuck itself now. They don't dictate anything anymore.

Seriously. They should do the rest of the world a favour and close itself off from us. That way we won't dictate what their idiots can and can't do or say.
- No please, don't leave those of us that are rational in here around with the nut jobs. We're trying to correct course but these people are nuts

What a shithole country.

i don't like that term because it's an insult to my butthole. it just so happens that i think that buttholes can be neat, but the US is not.
- I was refering to the hole you shit in, not the hole you shit out of.

Okay, now defend us from the foreign censorship that Israeli lobbyists baked into our state constitutions. https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colleges-illegal-bds-1895292

Could call it a... French inquisition
- Well nobody would expect that.

Requesting information isn't limiting free speech is it? Now if that algorithm shows it is indeed limiting or promoting people's speech in a non-equal manner, that would be limiting people's free speech would it not?

Dont try facts on the American government and 40% of its population. They dont work like that.
Surely 'X' isn't doing that? Say it ain't so!

Just call it Twitter. He's been trying to make "fetch" happen since the 90s. We get it, rich boy, you have a single-character .com domain. I'm still sending money over PayPal, because that's what it's fucking called.

PayPal? The platform that can freeze your account and keep your money for whatever reason and amount of time they like? I don't know...
- Unfortunately if that's the only payment method someone accepts other than cash

us should realise the world doesn't revolve around them and nobody respects them.

What is the actual context here? I don't trust what this tweet says

He's not American, he's a super racist south african with Canadian citizenship.

He's been an American for 23 years.
- In America. Not the same thing. He's been an illegal alien the whole time.

Now defend it from domestic one.

large backlog in north korea, russia, and china. Better get that military up to snuff.

Did they really classify Twitter as an "organised crime group"? Because that does seem a bit farfetched.

I have no proof but I suspect it is a mistranslation. The French legal term "bande organisée" literally means "organized crime group" but is simply the French counterpart to criminal conspiracy. That is to say, they are suspected not merely of breaking the law but also of having done so as a collective that knowingly planned for it.