flash on Nostr: ⚡️🇫🇷🤐 ALERT - The new bill on “combating interference” has just been ...
⚡️🇫🇷🤐 ALERT - The new bill on “combating interference” has just been introduced by Minister Laurent Nuñez.
And just as with identity verification on social media, the government has pulled out the fast-track procedure to ram it through at breakneck speed.
What this bill aims to establish is a veritable arsenal of controls over online speech:
1/ An emergency judicial procedure allowing a court to silence what the government deems to be a “disinformation” campaign on social media.
2/ The expansion of the “anti-information manipulation” framework already in place since 2018—a net that keeps getting wider.
3/ Harsher penalties, which would increase from 1 to 3 years in prison for “information manipulation,” and up to 6 years in cases of alleged ties to a foreign state.
Imprisoning people for what they post: that’s where we stand.
And that’s where the mask slips. The bill proudly presents itself as a defense against “foreign interference”… but the Council of State itself, in its opinion, notes that its scope is by no means limited to interference from abroad.
In other words: we’re being sold protection against an external enemy, when in fact the tool itself can easily be turned inward—against citizens, opponents, and dissenting voices!
Published at
2026-07-24 02:03:35 CESTEvent JSON
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