Social media companies will be hit with sanctions next month if they fail to remove ‘problematic content’ during riots under the European Union (EU)’s new content law, according to the French EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton.
A total of 19 online platforms, including TikTok, Twitter, and Snapchat, must comply with government regulations aiming that claim to reduce illegal or harmful content spreading online. If they fail to do so, they risk being fined up to six percent of their annual income.
“When there is hateful content, content that calls – for example – for revolt, that also calls for killing and burning of cars, they will be required to delete [the content] immediately,” Breton argued during an interview on Monday.
“If they fail to do so, they will be immediately sanctioned. We have teams who can intervene immediately… “If they don’t act immediately, then yes, at that point we’ll be able not only to impose a fine but also to ban the operation [of the platforms] on our territory,” he added.
These measures follow a week of mass rioting and destruction – “unparalleled” since the French Revolution in 1789 – across France following the death of Nahel M. As a result, French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week that he considered removing French people’s access to social media platforms to pacify the riots.
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Social media companies will be hit with sanctions next month if they fail to remove 'problematic content' during riots under the European Union (EU)'s new content law, according to the French EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton.
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Former President Donald J. Trump was one of the first global leaders to acknowledge the migration-driven social unrest in France, telling the media that ‘France is no longer France’ and predicting that things would only worsen. Trump’s 2016 comments came after the murder of Catholic priest Jacques Hamel at the hands of two Muslim men.
Trump said at the time:
“You see what happened to the French priest. A friend of mine, he said he was going to France like three or four months ago. I saw him yesterday. I said how did you like France? He said, I wouldn’t go to France… [b]ecause France is no longer France: France is no longer France.”
“They won’t like me for saying that, but you see what happened in Nice, you see what happened yesterday with the priest who was supposed to be a spectacular man: France is no longer France,” Trump reiterated.
“It’s only going to get worse, and it’s going to start getting bad in our country. We’re letting people come in by the tens of thousands,” he added.
Trump’s predictions have been realized countless times in France and across Europe. In the last month alone, France witnessed a Syrian asylum seeker stabbing babies in a park in Annecy, shortly followed by nationwide riots after a migrant-background teen was shot by French police.
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Former President Donald J. Trump was one of the first global leaders to acknowledge the migration-driven social unrest in France, telling the media that 'France is no longer France' and predicting that things would only worsen. Trump’s 2016 comments came after the murder of Catholic priest Jacques Hamel at the hands of two Muslim men.
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More than 700 people were arrested and 45,000 police officers deployed on Saturday evening as rioting continued in France for the fifth straight night following the death of migrant-background teen ‘Nahel’ at the hands of police. Around 45 police officers and gendarmes were injured, while 74 buildings, 26 police and gendarmes stations, and 577 vehicles were set on fire in the worst civil unrest in the European nation in decades.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, however, hailed the evening as a “calmer night thanks to the resolute action of the security forces” compared to Friday evening, which witnessed around 1,300 arrests. The violence has spread throughout the country, reaching central Paris, Marseille, Nice, and Strasbourg.
Former Deputy in the National Legislative Assembly of France, and niece of populist leader Marine Le Pen, Marion Marechal, said announced on Twitter on Sunday morning:
“In response to the [#riots], the government is preparing to once again rain billions of euros on the suburbs. The waste of our taxes must stop, the solution is in the end of immigration, not in renovation or subsidies!”
Vincent Jeanburn, Mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses – a small town five miles outside Paris – had a car rammed into his house before rioters set the home ablaze as his wife and children slept. He described the attack as “an assassination attempt,” with his wife and one of his children sustaining injuries. “Last night, a milestone was reached in terms of horror and ignominy,” said Jeanbrun in an announcement on Twitter.
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Riots have now spread to the city of Lyon in France.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 30, 2023
A large residential building has been set on fire by rioters in Grigny, France.pic.twitter.com/HrBu6BOWQI
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 2, 2023
The majority of the French population – 70 percent – favor sending in the army to restore order in those neighborhoods worst affected by the riots, a poll revealed on Friday.
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More than 700 people were arrested and 45,000 police officers deployed on Saturday evening as rioting continued in France for the fifth straight night following the death of migrant-background teen ‘Nahel’ at the hands of police. Around 45 police officers and gendarmes were injured, while 74 buildings, 26 police and gendarmes stations, and 577 vehicles were set on fire in the worst civil unrest in the European nation in decades.
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Riots have rocked France for a second night after the shooting of a 17-year-old named “Nael M” or “Nahel” at the hands of local police. The demonstrations were initially centered on Nanterre, a Paris suburb where the shooting took place, but have now spread across the nation. The country’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin described Wednesday’s disorder as “a night of unbearable violence against the symbols of the republic: town halls, schools, police stations burned or attacked.”
At least 150 people have been arrested so far.
UPDATE: 09:10 a.m. EST – Some 40,000 law enforcement officers will be deployed across France in response to the riots, now confirmed to have left 170 police injured overnight. The number of confirmed arrests has also risen to 170.
“The last few hours have been marked by scenes of violence against police stations, but also schools and town halls… against institutions and the Republic,” said President Emmanuel Macron at a crisis meeting of Cabinet officials. Police are already said to be running low on rubber bullets as they attempt to quell the unrest.
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French police killed a 17-year-old French-Algerian driver who allegedly refused to stop for a traffic check outside the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday, sparking unrest and protests across the capital pic.twitter.com/8VB0R0VUvo
Video of the original incident shows two police officers at a stopped car, one of whom is leaning on the hood, with his handgun trained on the driver. Suddenly, the car lurches forward, pushing the armed officer, who fires a single shot. The car stops a short distance away, the driver mortally wounded.
Mort de Nahel: deuxième nuit consécutive de violences urbaines en Île-de-France pic.twitter.com/fAl0K4OEbl
One video of the violent disruption even appears to show rioters trying to break people out of a prison south of Paris, bombarding the facility with fireworks, while others show them trying to cut down poles with security cameras or shoot them out with firearms.
The country’s globalist President Emmanuel Macron added fuel to the fire by publicly stating that “nothing justifies the death of a young person” and calling Nahel’s shooting “inexplicable and inexcusable.” Police unions pushed back, stressing the officer who shot Nahel should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Nahel’s mother has called for what the press is describing as a “memorial march” or “silent march” on Thursday, although her TikTok statement on the event was somewhat more inflammatory, with the woman saying: “Everyone come, we will lead a revolt for my son.”
Many appear to be using the teen’s death as cover to engage in general lawlessness, with video showing one group of migrant-background rioters using a power saw to try and cut an ATM out of a wall.
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Riots have rocked France for a second night after the shooting of a 17-year-old named "Nael M" or "Nahel" at the hands of local police. The demonstrations were initially centered on Nanterre, a Paris suburb where the shooting took place, but have now spread across the nation. The country’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin described Wednesday's disorder as "a night of unbearable violence against the symbols of the republic: town halls, schools, police stations burned or attacked."
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French feminists have taken aim at American transgender ideology, which they claim is starting to infect France and even dominate the country’s political discourse.
Dora Moutot – a renowned French feminist who currently faces a lawsuit for hate speech after misgendering a biological man – argues, “[i]n France, we are philosophers. We enjoy ideas for their own sake and have no problem with letting a concept stay as it is – conceptual.”
American academics, however, got hold of “French theory” and decided to apply theoretical ideas to the real world through activism, giving birth to gender theory, and “[t]hen, Americans threw it back at us.”
As a result, “transphobia” is being prioritized in the nation’s political conversation, with women in France facing the same threats to their safety as those in the United States and Britain. Women are facing abuse if they attend pro-biological women’s marches, and are being “blacklisted” if they dare reassert their rights, Moutot explains.
Aggression towarsd of so-called ‘TERFs’ – a pejorative acronym which stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminists” – is also becoming more prevalent, after the walls of Paris were graffitied with “Kill the Terfs” on International Women’s Day earlier this year.
A growing number of French women are standing up to the movement and “daring to fight back,” Moutot asserts, adding: “We are fighting for freedom of expression and pluralism of ideas.”
French feminists have taken aim at American transgender ideology, which they claim is starting to infect France and even dominate the country's political discourse.
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The ‘Alternative for Deutschland’ (AfD) party has achieved a landmark victory in the German state of Thuringia, winning a district council election for the first time in a moment not dissimilar to the first UK Independence Party (UKIP) council win of 2015.
The AfD’s candidate, Robert Sesselman, ousted Jurgen Köpper of the leftist Christian Democrats (CDU) – the party of the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel – receiving 52.8 percent of the vote in Thuringia’s Sonneberg district.
The victory demonstrates the party’s recent momentum, argued Björn Höcke, leader of the AfD in Thuringia, adding, “[a]nd then we’ll prepare for the state elections in the east, where we can really create a political earthquake.”
The populist party is currently polling at 20 percent nationally, making it the second most popular party, and beating German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SDP).
The AfD is Germany’s only significant right-wing party, having been originally founded by a small group of disenfranchised CDU voters and academics in 2013. The party was first elected to the German parliament – the Bundestag – in 2017. It is is known for its Euroscepticism, anti-immigration, and anti-vaccine mandate policies, campaigning under the motto: “Germany. But normal.”
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The 'Alternative for Deutschland' (AfD) party has achieved a landmark victory in the German state of Thuringia, winning a district council election for the first time in a moment not dissimilar to the first UK Independence Party (UKIP) council win of 2015.
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A victory in a single district may not seem like a big deal, but you have to remember that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) took control of its first council in 2015
A victory in a single district may not seem like a big deal, but you have to remember that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) took control of its first council in 2015 show more
French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a global taxation system to raise money for green policies climate change mitigation. The call came at the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris this weekend, where the French leader told 1,500+ attendees:
“I’m in favor of an international taxation to finance efforts that we have to make to fight poverty and in terms of climate [action]… It doesn’t work when you do it alone, the [financial] flows go elsewhere.”
– President Emmanuel Macron
The tax could replicate existing schemes in France, Macron said. The country has already placed a higher tax burden on plane tickets and financial institutions, even banning short haul flights. The summit did not reach a final agreement as to what the taxes will look like, though Macron explained that the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) would be an appropriate framework for the negotiations as countries have already used the OECD “to reach a deal on reforming global taxation for large multinationals.”
“Whether it’s on financial transactions, maritime transport or certain other models, it will only work if it’s truly international, and so it presupposes an agreement, as we’ve been able to do on international taxation,” Macron added.
European nations have been making increasingly draconian and intrusive climate demands in recent years, such as the decision taken by the Irish government to cull up to 200,000 cows by 2025 to meet climate change targets.
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French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a global taxation system to raise money for green policies climate change mitigation. The call came at the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris this weekend, where the French leader told 1,500+ attendees:
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Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march on Moscow was ‘staged’ by Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, to boost his political power and reinforce support for the conflict, argues the Russian-born, former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Rebekah Koffler.
“What has changed… in the last few hours? All of a sudden, [Prigozhin] decided to turn his troopers around and made this deal? No, this is all staged,” Koffler claims.
The mutiny was also used to “demonstrate to President Biden that, no, Russia is not a threat. Russia is actually… involved in its own domestic turmoil. But this is all a classic distraction and classic Putin.”
US intelligence agencies believe Putin was aware of the Wagner rebellion before the event began on Friday but have been confused by Putin’s lack of action and willingness to accept a deal with the Wagner chief, brokered by Aleksandr Lukashenko, the President of Belarus.
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Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's march on Moscow was 'staged' by Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, to boost his political power and reinforce support for the conflict, argues the Russian-born, former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Rebekah Koffler.
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United States (US) intelligence officials learned that Yevgeniy Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wager Group, was planning an armed uprising against Vladimir Putin as early as mid-June.
US and Western officials observed enough signals that Prigozhin was preparing a move against the Russian government, such as his amassing weapons and ammunition. However, the exact timing remained unclear until shortly before his march on Moscow on Friday.
Prigozhin was prompted by the Russian Defense Ministry’s order that every volunteer detachment – including the Wagner Group – must sign contracts with the government on June 10, officials believe, signifying a government takeover of Prigozhin’s mercenaries – an action that was considered “out of the question” to Wagner’s chief.
US intelligence agencies also believe Putin was aware that Prigozhin was conspiring against him before the march began but have been left confused by Putin’s lack of action against the uprising, as well as his willingness to broker a deal with the Wagner chief through Aleksandr Lukashenko, the President of Belarus.
Several US officials said, “they fully expected that Mr. Putin would eventually say the uprising was the result of a foreign plot.”
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United States (US) intelligence officials learned that Yevgeniy Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wager Group, was planning an armed uprising against Vladimir Putin as early as mid-June.
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