on July 3, 2016 in World News
Anti-Free Speech Laws Force Right-wing Activists Into Hiding Abroad
by Virginia Hale Right wing activists are being forced into hiding abroad as a result of France’s oppressive laws against free speech. Le Monde reports that a number of right wingers have been pressured to flee France to avoid arrest for “hate” speech. The newspaper notes that many of these are administrators of websites in the “fachosphere”. ‘Facho’ is slang, in France, for ‘fascist’. It describes the “fachosphere” as a “cloud of very active websites, blogs and forums which do their best to preach the ‘patriotic’ word on the web”. Le Monde says such websites “are hosted abroad, with the… View Article
click here for more