You gotta love the French- they just don't give a shit. I wanna move there NOW.

They have invited Musk to turn up to answer some questions.

I can't help but think they're secretly hoping that the reply will be a poop emoji or some mindless blathering about freedom of speech...

I'm guessing you aren't French, so that makes you a foreigner, and nobody wants foreigners to move to their country any more. You may be an agent of a foreign power or an economic migrant, and your presence may dilute the Frenchness of France. Like it or not, you would be as foreign as Musk and consequently about as welcome.

Always amused when Brexit supporters hit roadblocks when they try to retire to Spain. These things work both ways.

> hit roadblocks when they try to retire to Spain

Or Malta.

If you hit Malta when trying to retire to Spain then something has gone wrong with your satnav.

Someone holding Elmo to account?

How long until "WaR aGaInSt FrEe SpEeCh!!!" arguments?

How long until a 5000000% tariff on French goods because they are picking on a poor little US business?

How long until Xitter just goes away?

Pavel Durov ofnttat well known moderate service Telegram, has already come out saying France isn't a free country.

Twitter has ignored requests for comment, not even a poop emoji, which is surprising because they must be replete with those

Twitter has ignored requests for comment, not even a poop emoji, which is surprising because they must be replete with those

They're currently needed for the Donald's (tame) press conferences.

Re: "Pavel Durov ofnttat well known moderate service Telegram, has already come out saying France isn't a free country."

Well, he would say that, wouldn't he, considering he was [1]arrested in Paris, after being indicted on twelve charges, including complicity in the distribution of child exploitation material and drug trafficking.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/30/french_telegram_ceo/

Oh Xit!

"Parquet de Paris also confirmed it will close its social media account on X, and anyone wishing to follow its updates can do so instead via LinkedIn or Instagram."

Sigh......how about something not requiring a data harvesting account with a US megacorp?

You've spotted a Parquet flaw!

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!

ROFL

" how about something not requiring a data harvesting account with a US megacorp? "

Such as?

(aside from the obvious "why isn't this on your website" question)

I've said essentially this for awhile. If someone wants to follow a gov org, they should do so on the gov org direct website. Twatter was very good at getting gov org's to disseminate info via twatter making it the defacto source of info. Which is what musk really purchased. So kudos to this org for walking from twatter. Now if we could just get the thousands of others to do so as well.

It's a big problem - the centralisation of the internet. The days of the myriad small web sites are in the past. Sure, they still exist. But the mega-hosters are where most eyeballs are now.

There is no reason why anyone who wanted to follow what Parquet de Paris is doing could not go to their web site. But it's another bookmark, another click away. For some reason somebody at Parquet de Paris thinks it is easier and more convenient to update a page on LinkedIn rather than update a self-hosted page.

Mastodon?

Beat me to it.

European development, no mega-corp (USAian or otherwise) and you can run your own server!

Or RSS.

I wonder why the RSS button disappeared from social networks and the software written by big US corporations in the early-mid 2010s.

I can only presume that Telegram no longer wishes for the Govt to be any part of their service.

The French cancelled Rumble , now it's back. They can cancel Twitter but I am sure that it wont be long before they are back too.

Enough of this charade. It's patently obvious these coordinated attacks on Twitter are a politically driven assault on free speech. It is curious that no other social media has been subject to such onerous investigations. But then again, the Feds did sit down once a week with Twitter and Facebook to decide who was going to be banned and give them access to people's direct messages.

That's because no other social media actively facilitiates the production of child sex abuse material

As I was reading this, I thought "I bet Musk will say something about how this is woke anti-free speech".

Then I read this: "In a July statement, X described the French probe as an attack on free speech that distorted domestic law to "serve a political agenda."#

Ha! Free speech only applies to right-wingers, don't you know?

Musk bans people who post things he doesn't agree with, Elisons tik-tok bans accounts or removes posts against those critical of Israels genocide or ICE murders, and Trump has arrested people for doing similar, or for daring to film ICE.

But of course, if you get investigated for encouraging a low-IQ mob to attack and burn immigrants, then according to JD Vance and Musk, you're the victim.

P.S. Anyone who downvotes this post without attempting to refute it is just a fascist trump cuck moron. History will remember you as "Mitläufer". There, I said it.

" History will remember you as "Mitläufer". "

Don't make me laugh. There's so much shit flowing on the internet, and so many ill informed "opinions", that unless you're somebody who matters (or at the very least, somebody who other people think matters), history won't remember you at all . In a hundred years you'll be a name on a grave that nobody visits. Me too. Most of us, in fact.

Just how insecure are the French about their culture and identity that they worry about this?

Quite a lot. They have been heavily exposed to us-ian propaganda for eighty years, and now they feel a little bit tired.

Well, given that a lot of political parties and organisations use the dead blue bird, a very real manipulation could be to bury stuff posted by liberal parties and promote that by right wing parties [*], which is directly meddling with the democracy of a sovereign country (and of course next to impossible to actually prove).

* - Do note that this is now an actual stated part of the United States foreign policy. Yes, they were dumb enough to put the bit that's supposed to remain unsaid in writing...

I enjoyed the first news announcement this morning:

“The French cybercrime unit is conducting a search at the Paris offices of social media network X, according to a post by the Paris prosecutor’s office on X.”

I am mildly amused at either of the two conclusions from this story.

The first is that the French authorities believe there is something on French soil that can be seized.

The second is that one of the supposedly most advanced tech companies on the planet still uses hard copies that can be seized.