Greenwald: Since glorious “free speech” march, France has opened 54 criminal cases for “condoning terrorism.”

French comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, also known as just ”Dieudonne”, attends a news conference at the ”Theatre de la Main d’or” in Paris January 11, 2014.
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“Since that glorious ‘free speech’ march, France has reportedly opened 54 criminal cases for “condoning terrorism,” writes Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept.

The Associated Press today reported “France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism.”

“As pernicious as this arrest and related ‘crackdown’ on some speech obviously is,” writes Greenwald, “it provides a critical value: namely, it underscores the utter scam that was this week’s celebration of free speech in the west.”