Free speech, Musk vomits his name [L’éditorial de CL]

Saying or relaying anything is so much freedom of expression that there is no longer any need to check the facts. People on X or Meta will contribute their “notes” and this will be enough for false information to become the truth of the global community and feed its very artificial intelligence.

Ten years ago, freedom was cherished, its name was written on walls like signs. We recalled the right to be impertinent, to blaspheme, to shock. From school, it is also taught that freedom ends where that of others begins. In 2025, the Musk-Trump duo cloaks itself in unlimited freedom of expression to carry a political project severely limited to the most extreme right. Freedom ends where the repression of minorities and differences begins. For his inauguration on January 20, Donald Trump invited only one French politician, Eric Zemmour, also on a crusade.

In this international, freedom stops at those who agree with them. And if you don’t want to be part of the project then you are the problem. It is enough to see in recent days the interference in all Western democracies which are already very weakened. It is not provocation when Trump publishes a map of the United States putting Canada under the stars and stripes. This is the affirmation of true American imperialism. We must enlarge our living space to be able to extend their way of conceiving the world to an entire empire. According to their rules and those of their business.

“Freedom of expression, a slogan we belch to silence others.”

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In the name of freedom of expression, brandished like a slogan that we belch to silence others, this reactionary empire seeks its support in every democracy and Musk pulls out all the stops to rally behind their very white panache. In Europe, some are already in power like Orban or Meloni. She defends the “genius” Musk to the point of calling him this Thursday and twice… Donald Trump. To defend the excesses and ultra-violent verbal attacks of the billionaire (other constants of this new American imperialism), the Italian brandishes freedom of expression. In a reversal of values ​​that History knows well, the exploitation of freedom of expression feeds the flame and the groups of the extreme right.

Liberty, I vomit your name could rewrite Paul Éluard in this period of occupation of minds, of networks by this empire which has come to largely replace democracies in agony.