[throwafrenchman]

> The government is even censoring comments on social media about the law when it's not going in their direction

Do you have a source for that? I'm genuinely curious.

[pikzen]

OP is going a bit far, but I believe he's referring to http://www.numerama.com/magazine/32780-loi-renseignement-qua...

Basically, our Defense Minister's twitter account posted a quote of Christiane Taubira (the Defense Minister) saying "It is obvious that the methods of retrieval [of data] are potentially endangering private life".

It was quickly removed.

[yann63]

Here it is (in French, but with screen captures): http://www.numerama.com/magazine/32802-loi-renseignement-le-...