Europeans regularly insist that their countries protect free speech, but it is always a lie. Free speech does not exist in Europe, including in France, because free speech does not truly exist outside of the United States and its First Amendment protections.

France proved this point again on Monday when 10 people were found guilty of “cyberbullying” France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron. Specifically, those people were found to have posted “particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious” comments that “have had cumulative harmful effects.” One was sentenced to six months in prison.