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 on the public radio station “France Inter” that it is right to regulate the digital space, but it should not be done by the Internet giants. He said that the digital oligarchy has become one of the threats hanging over all countries and democracies.
I’m shocked that Twitter itself shut down this account, said French Finance Minister Le Maire. 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 not by the digital oligarchs; it should be left to 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 defended by Twitter as “a danger of inciting violence again. Facebook and several other similar services (such as Instagram, Snapchat or Twitch) have also suspended Trump’s account indefinitely.
The decision by Twitter to shut down Trump’s account has sparked widespread debate and criticism in French politics, not only from Macron’s Finance Minister Le Maire, who sees it as one of the threats hanging over countries and democracy, but also from Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the far-left “Unbowed France”, to Marine Le Pen, the president of the far-right “Union Nationale”, who, according to AFP today, is critical of The digital oligarchy is critical of the control of public discourse. Melenchon said, “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 said that this is a “power grab by private corporations to democracy”.
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