Macron Reveals True Colours—Calls Free Speech “Pure Bulls**t”

On his mission to enforce major restrictions on social media, Emmanuel Macron has finally admitted that he is unfazed by concerns about censorship.

Speaking in India on Wednesday, he dismissed the free speech defence of platforms as “pure bulls**t.” You can’t get much clearer than that.

The French president said “having no clue about how their algorithm is made, how it’s tested, trained and where it will guide you—the democratic consequences of this bias could be huge,” adding:

Some of them claim to be in favor of free speech—OK, we are in favor of free algorithms—totally transparent. Free speech is pure bulls**t if nobody knows how you are guided to this so-called free speech, especially when it is guided from one hate speech to another.

His comments come while French lawmakers mull banning social media for under-15s. The proposal is supported by Macron, who has called for an accelerated legislative process to have it introduced sooner

Conservative Malaysian commentator Ian Miles Cheong said the comment meant “Macron doesn’t believe in free speech unless he can control it. That would not make it very free would it?”

U.S. comedian Rob Schneider also described free speech as “ALL speech,” saying:

If the Government, and tyrants like French moron Macron, get to decide what ‘speech’ is allowed and not allowed, they will ALWAYS choose the ‘speech’ that supports government and silence the speech that questions government.

At least, said political commentator Mario Nawfal, “the masks are off.”

All this points to a likely clash between European governments seeking to clamp down on social media platforms, and Donald Trump’s administration, which has pushed back against what it calls the “global censorship-industrial complex.”

Clearly, figures around Brussels has not taken seriously U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s warning last year about Europe’s “enemy within.”