{"id":4581,"date":"2015-01-15T07:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T12:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2015-01-15T07:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T12:09:15","slug":"french-authorities-accused-of-double-standards-over-hate-speech-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4581","title":{"rendered":"French authorities accused of double standards over hate speech crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/222835-france-crackdown-hate-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">French authorities accused of double standards over hate speech crackdown<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The arrest of a famous comedian and 54 more people for hate speech and pro-terror comments in the wake of the Charlie Hedbo attacks have sparked a fierce debate in France over whether the authorities are guilty of double standards on freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>At the center of the debate is controversial comedian Dieudonne M\u2019bala M\u2019bala, known by his stage name Dieudonne, who was arrested after posting \u201c<em>I feel like Charlie Coulibaly<\/em>\u201d on Facebook, putting together the name of the attacked satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and the terrorist who is accused of killing four people at a Jewish supermarket in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Racism, anti-Semitism, historical revisionism, and condoning terrorism are not opinions, they are crimes<\/em>,&#8221; French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said, condemning Dieudonne&#8217;s remark and vowing a crackdown on &#8220;<em>speech that kills<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French authorities accused of double standards over hate speech crackdown The arrest of a famous comedian and 54 more people for hate speech and pro-terror comments in the wake of the Charlie Hedbo attacks have sparked a fierce debate in France over whether the authorities are guilty of double standards on freedom of speech. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2704,333,2703,483,2510,793],"class_list":["post-4581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dieudonne-mbala","tag-france","tag-free-speech","tag-liberty-2","tag-paris","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}