Video games? What decade are we in?
Shoutout to the french who are actually willing to protest when their government doesn’t address relevant matters.
Unfortunately, reclaimthenet.org has become more and more click-baity in their headlines…
This is what he said (from the reclaimthenet.org article):
“We’ve seen them; Snapchat, TikTok and several others, serve as places where violent gatherings have been organized, but there’s also a form of mimicry of the violence which for some young people leads them to lose touch with reality.
“You get the impression that for some of them they are experiencing on the street the video games that have intoxicated them,” he added.
(This is the source in French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHpqbo7p38Y )
The ministers have been complaining about a “gamification” of the riots, where protesters push each other to destroy more stuff through social media. And that’s what he was condemning.
I’m not aware of him having requested deletions of riot content. That would, indeed, by worrying for a western democracy… But France civil liberties have been on the downward-trend since the 2015 Paris attacks. So I could see this happening. But data to social media companies have been requested, which is IMHO not alarming, but always makes me uneasy…
Ah, life in the garden of free speech and democracy.
