Riots recently consumed France amid mass public uprising after the police shot and killed a 17-year-old boy. The French government has deployed more than 45,000 law enforcement officers and arrested more than 1,300 French citizens in the aftermath of the riots. This isn’t that unusual, as the French love a good riot, but one disturbing, Orwellian response was floated in these riots that’s making waves: shutting down social media.

“We need to think about how young people use social networks, in the family, at school, the interdictions there should be … and when things get out of hand we may have to regulate them or cut them off,” French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly said. “Above all, we shouldn’t do this in the heat of the moment and I’m pleased we didn’t have to. But I think it’s a real debate that we need to have in the cold light of day.”

This extreme suggestion was met with harsh criticism from across the French political spectrum.