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The honourable thing? More importantly this is the smart choice, the only thing, to do: Shake the dust from your sandals, walk away, don't look back. This is
by metadope 11mo ago
The honourable thing?
More importantly this is the smart choice, the only thing, to do: Shake the dust from your sandals, walk away, don't look back.
This is the ongoing horror of the overbearing state, which wants to rule efficiently by knowing everything that everybody is doing all the time. Those who focus on and value law enforcement before freedom.
- mmooss 11mo ago> This What? What is the French state doing in this case?
- betaby 11mo agoOwners of those newspapers are or were politicians. I would call that a politically motivated action against GrapheneOS.
- mmooss 11mo agoThat doesn't follow: It's not their only motivation, nor are the author and editor drones who follow this one motivation. People can write politically motivated things on HN too. That is very different than a law enforcement action of the government.
- betaby 11mo agoThen the law enforcement knocks the door it's already too late. Those articles is the intimidation tactics for now. > People can write politically motivated things on HN too. Sure, and that would be a problem if that was 1) targeted and 2) originated from the people with connections.
- mmooss 11mo agoDo you have evidence of this conspiracy between these French newspaper owners, editors, and writers, and the French government?
- hirako2000 11mo agoSeveral advocacy groups spoke up about it, even explain how that works, yes. Here are a few: https://eu.boell.org/en/2024/04/25/press-freedom-france https://eu.boell.org/en/2024/04/25/press-freedom-france https://ipi.media/france-media-freedom-threats-capture/ https://ipi.media/france-media-freedom-threats-capture/