Emmanuel Macron: “There should be no anonymity on social networks. People allow themselves to say the worst abjections, because they are hooded behind a nickname”

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(…) During the same interview, Emmanuel Macron draws a rather negative assessment of the role of Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

“On social networks, we can kill reputations, spread false news, push people to suicide” regrets the candidate. “When you read what Mark Zuckerberg thinks, for example, or even Elon Musk, who became a shareholder of Twitter and who is a libertarian, you realize that they also have a vision of the world. However, the society that emerges in this way is not always democratic”, he adds.

“There should be no anonymity”

More surprisingly, Emmanuel Macron evokes a track yet criticized by his Secretary of State for Digital Cédric O: prohibit anonymity online.

“In a democratic society, there should be no anonymity. You can’t walk in the street wearing a hood. On the Internet, people allow themselves, because they are hooded behind a nickname, to say the worst abjections” analyzes Emmanuel Macron.

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