… The European Union’s digital regulations were adopted following a democratic and sovereign process by the European Parliament and the Council.France condemns the visa restriction measures taken by the United States against Thierry Breton and four other European figures.
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 24, 2025
These measures amount to intimidation and coercion aimed at undermining European digital sovereignty.…
They apply within Europe to ensure fair competition among platforms, without targeting any third country, and to ensure that what is illegal offline is also illegal online.
The rules governing the European Union’s digital space are not meant to be determined outside Europe.
Together with the European Commission and our European partners, we will continue to defend our digital sovereignty and our regulatory autonomy.
DataRepublican (small r)
I'm continually impressed by how quickly language evolves in the hands of "Our Democracy" propagandists.
You're not censoring social media, of course. You're merely exercising "digital sovereignty."
"Digital sovereignty." Read that again. Censorship is "digital sovereignty." Criticizing censorship becomes "undermining European digital sovereignty." Goebbels himself couldn't have come up with anything better.
If half your ingenuity were spent on improving France rather than laundering authoritarian impulses through euphemism, Paris might be less of a trash heap, and possibly worth visiting again.
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