From Main Street to the heads of state of US allies like Germany and Mexico, massive condemnation has erupted towards Silicon Valley. 

The French parliament has voted to approve a controversial law that will ban the publication of pictures of on-duty police officers exercising their duties.

The secretary-general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement condemns the French president's Islamophobic remarks, saying the freedom of expression is based on double standards there.

Instagram blocks the French account of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, following his message about Islamophobic campaign in France.

Following the beheading of a “History” teacher many in France contend freedom of speech should hold no bars and not be curtailed in any way, others opine that offensive and abusive language, or acts, breach propriety, hence the widening societal division.