Twitter’s shutdown of Trump‘s account has been widely criticized in French politics. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said today, January 11, in an interview with the public radio station “France Inter” that it is appropriate to regulate the digital space, but not by the Internet giants. He said that the digital oligarchy has become one of the threats hanging over all countries and democracies.
French Finance Minister Le Maire said I was shocked that Twitter itself shut down this account. And the regulation of digital giants should not be done by the digital oligarchs themselves. He noted that “the digital oligarchy is one of the threats hanging over the heads of all countries and democracies.”
French Finance Minister Le Maire said that monitoring the digital space should be done, but it should not be done by the digital oligarchs, but by the sovereign people, the state and justice.
France was one of the first countries to arrange for a tax on digital giants for their marketing in France. For his part, French Finance Minister Le Maire has often criticized Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (Gafa) for wielding excessive power.
Trump’s White House Twitter account had more than 88 million subscribers before it was shut down. The decision to shut down President Trump’s account came two days after the storming of the U.S. Congress and was justified by “the risk of inciting violence again. Facebook and several other similar services (such as Instagram, Snapchat or Twitch) have also suspended Trump’s account indefinitely.
Twitter’s decision to shut down Trump’s account has sparked widespread discussion and criticism in French political circles, not only from Macron’s Finance Minister Le Maire, who sees it as one of the threats hanging over countries and democracy, but according to AFP today, French political circles from Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the far-left “Unbowed France”, to Marine Le Pen, president of the far-right “Union Nationale” have been critical of the digital oligarchy’s control of public discourse. Melenchon said that “Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon cannot be allowed to use Trump’s actions as an excuse to arrogate to themselves the power to control public debate. Marine Le Pen, on the other hand, said it was “a power grab from democracy by a large private corporation.”
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