{"id":1440771,"date":"2022-04-15T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440771"},"modified":"2022-04-15T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T20:00:30","slug":"macron-vows-to-tackle-social-media-giants-calls-for-end-of-internet-anonymity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/macron-vows-to-tackle-social-media-giants-calls-for-end-of-internet-anonymity\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron Vows To Tackle Social Media Giants, Calls for End of Internet Anonymity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmacron-vows-to-tackle-social-media-giants-calls-for-end-of-internet-anonymity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440771&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-961734020-e1649954673832-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">French President Emmanuel Macron stated he is open to \u201cdismantling\u201d social media giants and proposed to end anonymity online as he campaigns in the second round of the French presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>President Macron stated this week that he was open to the idea of dismantling social media giants, claiming they can have a negative effect on society as a whole and that some may be deemed to be monopolies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, there is the subject of social networks. Many are now Americans. We must not hesitate to consider the dismantling of those who are in a monopoly situation and regulate,\u201d President Macron said, broadcaster BFMTV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfmtv.com\/tech\/presidentielle-emmanuel-macron-envisage-un-demantelement-de-facebook_AN-202204130240.html#xtor=CS9-144-%5Btwitter%5D-%5BBFMTV\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn social networks, we can kill reputations, spread fake news, push people to suicide,\u201d Macron said and added, \u201cWhen you read what Mark Zuckerberg thinks for example, or even Elon Musk, who has become a shareholder of Twitter and is a libertarian, you realize that they also have a vision of the world. But the society that emerges in this way is not always democratic.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New French Prime Minister Opposes Internet Anonymity, Compares Social Networks to Vichy France <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s1S1AGV6kj\">https:\/\/t.co\/s1S1AGV6kj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1284563336991068163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday Mr Musk, who refused to take a seat on the board of Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/04\/14\/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-100-percent-of-twitter-restore-free-speech\/\">offered to buy the entire company<\/a> at a valuation of\u00a0$54.20 a share, 18 per cent above the closing price of the stock from the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>President Macron went on to note his opposition to the idea of anonymity online as well, saying: \u201cIn a democratic society, there should be no anonymity. You can\u2019t walk around the street hooded. On the internet, people allow themselves, because they are hooded behind a nickname, to say the worst, objectionable statements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macron\u2019s current Prime Minister\u00a0Jean Castex has also spoken out about his opposition to anonymity online, stating in 2020 that anonymity distorts the political debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can call someone all kinds of names, accuse them of all kinds of vices, by hiding behind pseudonyms. In these conditions, social networks are the Vichy regime: nobody knows who it is!\u201d Castex <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/07\/18\/new-french-pm-against-internet-anonymity-compares-social-networks-vichy-france\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Macron: France Could Ban Hate Speech Convicts From All Social Media For Life <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/un58vANKpd\">https:\/\/t.co\/un58vANKpd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1099262593649332226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2019, President Macron took aim at those who post \u201chate\u201d on social media, floating the idea that people convicted of hate speech could be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/02\/22\/macron-france-could-ban-hate-speech-convicts-from-all-social-media-for-life\/\">banned from social media platforms<\/a> for life.<\/p>\n<p>President Macron is currently facing a tight re-election race against his rival, populist Marine Le Pen, in a repeat of the 2017 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Current polls put both candidates within<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuropeElects\/status\/1514628580185198603?s=20&#038;t=gVLbN0s3SDjkIZORmH-79w\">\u00a0just a few percentage points<\/a> of each other, with one shock poll putting Le Pen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/08\/shock-poll-puts-marine-le-pen-ahead-of-macron-in-french-presidential-second-round\/\">slightly ahead<\/a> of the incumbent French leader.<\/p>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron stated he is open to \u201cdismantling\u201d social media giants and proposed to end anonymity online as he campaigns in the second round of the French presidential<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}