[metadope]

The honourable thing?

More importantly this is the smart choice, the only thing, to do: Shake the dust from your sandals, walk away, don't look back.

This is the ongoing horror of the overbearing state, which wants to rule efficiently by knowing everything that everybody is doing all the time. Those who focus on and value law enforcement before freedom.

[mmooss]

> This

What? What is the French state doing in this case?

[betaby]

Owners of those newspapers are or were politicians. I would call that a politically motivated action against GrapheneOS.

[mmooss]

That doesn't follow: It's not their only motivation, nor are the author and editor drones who follow this one motivation.

People can write politically motivated things on HN too. That is very different than a law enforcement action of the government.

[betaby]

Then the law enforcement knocks the door it's already too late. Those articles is the intimidation tactics for now.

> People can write politically motivated things on HN too.

Sure, and that would be a problem if that was 1) targeted and 2) originated from the people with connections.

[mmooss]

Do you have evidence of this conspiracy between these French newspaper owners, editors, and writers, and the French government?

[hirako2000]

Several advocacy groups spoke up about it, even explain how that works, yes. Here are a few:

https://eu.boell.org/en/2024/04/25/press-freedom-france

https://ipi.media/france-media-freedom-threats-capture/