A day to be marked with a white stone. On January 9, the show C this eveningon France 5organized what appears to be its first adversarial debate in several years. It was about time… Digital entrepreneur and social media specialist, Fabrice Epelboin was present on set to discuss the “ new empire » founded by Elon Musk and the dangers that social network X would pose to democracy. He took the opportunity to remind – in front of an audience of speechless speakers – that Twitter had become a “ object of censorship » well before its takeover by Elon Musk, under the action of a left determined to silence its opponents. “ We need to dive back into the Twitter Fileshe declared. The administration and the FBI were exploiting the RussiaGate conspiracy theory to point the finger at people designated as Russian agents […] This resulted in the eradication of Republicans on social media. It is the Democrats who exploited the FBI and this represents a violation of 1is amendment, which is something extremely serious for the Americans. »
A little stunned by this counter-current speech, Nathan Devers, Thomas Snégaroff and Karim Rissouli, present on the set, did not know what to object to the specialist at the time. It took two days for the True Truth camp to counterattack. Professor at Sciences Po and self-declared specialist in “ anti fake news », Thomas Huchon went to LCI to completely deny all of Fabrice Epelboin’s comments. “ That's not true! », he exclaimed, adding that the entrepreneur had said “ lots of things that weren't up to par ». « We have a huge problem with Mr. Epelboin, really, I tell you. Everything he said this week on a public service broadcast… I don't understand why we let him say things like that. »
The “democrat” camp’s thirst for censorship
Mr. Huchon is a perfect representative of this moralizing left which demands censorship of its opponents. If we listened to him, all those who deviate from the authorized media narrative should be accused of “hate” or “conspiracy” and, consequently, evacuated from the spaces of debate, or even prosecuted in court.
The remarks made in C this evening by Fabrice Epelboin are nevertheless indisputable. The mass closure of Twitter accounts associated with the right – including that of Donald Trump himself! – is proven. As for the murky role played by the American administration on certain sensitive subjects, it is widely documented and is only denied by a few far-left zozos. In August 2024, Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook, revealed in a letter sent to a committee of the American Congress that the Joe Biden administration had “ puts pressure on [ses] teams for months to censor certain content related to Covid-19 » in 2021. He also admitted to having covered up, at the request of the FBI, a dark affair compromising Hunter Biden, the son of the Democratic President of the United States.
« The facts, just the facts », as journalist Patrick Cohen would say. But these are precisely the “ facts » that the left wants to censor when they contradict its ready-to-think ideas. Those who demonstrate that the totalitarian temptation is no longer on the right, those who prove that lies have been told by the covidist camp and, above all, those who reveal the dangers of immigration.
Attacks on Elon Musk have never been more violent than since he supported the AfD and denounced mass rapes committed in Britain by Pakistani gangs. But, unable to put forward the slightest idea, the left is reduced to two behaviors: desertion – like Sandrine Rousseau, who has just announced her departure from social network X for the fifth time – or the call for censorship. In the space of a short week, the removal of Elon Musk's platform was in fact considered, even requested, by the socialist deputy for Essonne Jérôme Guedj, the National Secretary of Environmentalists Marine Tondelier or even former European Commissioner Thierry Breton. “ If I notice that public debate has been disrupted, then I can impose very heavy sanctions on these platforms, I can even go as far as banning “, also declared our Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, very incisive against Elon Musk, but much gentler when it comes to asking Algeria for the release of Boualem Sansal. You have to believe that some fights are more important than others.
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