French Prosecutor Rules That Social Media Platform X Is an ‘Organized Crime Group’

If you have any doubt that the European Union is devolving into a soft totalitarian state, think again.

I have been sounding the alarm bells about the developments in Europe for as long as I have been writing at Hot Air, and some of you may have thought me an alarmist engaged in hyperbole. I am alarmed, of course, but by real threats to freedom.

The latest assault on freedom–not just in Europe, because the EU and Great Britain are using their criminal and regulatory powers to suppress speech in the US as well as other countries–comes with the breaking news that the French authorities are classifying Elon Musk’s X platform as an ‘organized crime group’ and is vigorously investigating the company (and presumably its management and owners) in a criminal case.

I learned of this development from, of all places, the US State Department, which blasted France for its abuse of prosecutorial power to censor speech.

As part of a criminal investigation, an activist French prosecutor is requesting information on X’s proprietary algorithm and has classified X as an “organized crime group.” Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard, not silence speech they dislike. The United States will defend the free speech of all Americans against acts of foreign censorship.

Apparently, this all began earlier in July, when the prosecutor opened an investigation at the request of a French MP. I hadn’t seen much reporting about this, despite the fact that it should have been big news. But adding the designation “organized crime group” moves things up a notch or 10.

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