Fri Jul 7, 2023 – 6:11 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — French President Emmanuel Macron has suggested cutting off access to social media as a response to the riots in France.
“We need to think about how young people use social networks, in the family, at school, the interdictions there should be… and when things get out of hand we may have to regulate them or cut them off,” Macron said in a meeting with over 250 mayors on July 4, the Guardian reported.
“Above all, we shouldn’t do this in the heat of the moment, and I’m pleased we didn’t have to. But I think it’s a real debate that we need to have in the cold light of day,” he continued.
After facing immense backlash from his political opposition, officials of the French government tried to backtrack Macron’s comments, saying that the president did not mean a “general blackout” of social media platforms but rather an “occasional and temporary” suspension of online networks.
Olivier Faure, head of the French Socialist Party wrote on Twitter that “The country of the rights of man and citizens cannot align itself with those great democracies of China, Russia, and
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