The French government fears unrest. Protests in France are not peaceful, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a highly sensitive subject.
I have been on the Palestine side since the beginning of its violent colonisation, but the Hamas attacked civilians, not warriors. It was an act of pure terrorism. Very reminiscent of the events in France on November 13, 2015, when terrorists attacked concert-goers at the Bataclan.
If it were truly about “unrest”, they’d ban demonstrations in support of Israel also. This is just the government telling people what opinions they’re allowed to express.
Demonstrations in support of Israel have not (yet) ended up in burning stuff in the street.
France doesn’t have a “free speech” clause before the “be civil” clause. In the US you can be an ass in the name of free speech, in France you can be civil or shut up.
Regardless of where you stand on the Israel/Hammas situation, the state shouldn’t have this kind of power.
France does this because of Charlie Hebdo.
The US didn’t even do this over 9/11.
Tbf there weren’t a lot of pro-Al Qaeda protests in the US after 9/11 (and btw there were a lot more islamist terror attacks in France than just Charlie Hebdo)
The French government fears unrest. Protests in France are not peaceful, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a highly sensitive subject.
I have been on the Palestine side since the beginning of its violent colonisation, but the Hamas attacked civilians, not warriors. It was an act of pure terrorism. Very reminiscent of the events in France on November 13, 2015, when terrorists attacked concert-goers at the Bataclan.
If it were truly about “unrest”, they’d ban demonstrations in support of Israel also. This is just the government telling people what opinions they’re allowed to express.
Demonstrations in support of Israel have not (yet) ended up in burning stuff in the street.
France doesn’t have a “free speech” clause before the “be civil” clause. In the US you can be an ass in the name of free speech, in France you can be civil or shut up.
Europeans don’t believe in free speech.
you can tell because this decision by the french government is currently seeing universal fucking praise
Europeans believe in being civil first.
We just wish you’d man the fuck up and stop saying you do have free speech. Shits annoying.
Because we believe in freedom of expression.
We do indeed do not follow US laws. Strange how the world works, right?
That’s also not true, as evidenced by this ban on expression.