News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Is Elon Musk a hypocrite for publicly challenging the EU’s new online censorship regime while quietly removing tweets that fall foul of the EU’s Digital Services Act? No, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
The husband of a dissident MEP, who opposed vaccine passports, the Digital Services Act and Western support for Ukraine, was found dead on Saturday, apparently murdered.
Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court case challenging Government censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a distraction from the real threat to Americans' freedom of speech, says Robert Kogon.
The European Union has been accused of creating Orwellian "ministries of truth" that will ensure wrong thoughts are not allowed in a bid to tackle disinformation online.
Large platforms like X and Facebook are now required to be compliant with the EU's draconian Digital Services Act, which appears set to become the global standard and enable the European Commission to censor the internet.
The Digital Services Act comes into force today, empowering the EU to force social media companies to take down 'disinformation', including "gender and sexuality" content that's "part of a wider 'anti-woke' narrative".
As the August 25th deadline for the new EU online speech regulations approaches, Commissioner Thierry Breton warns social media companies to turn up the dial on censorship, or else.
According to investigative reporter Robert Kogon, Elon Musk's claim that Twitter has withdrawn from the EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation is an empty boast. In reality, it is still complying.
Many have been wondering why the announced Twitter 'amnesty' has not occurred. But the answer is obvious: the European Union vetoed it. The EU now presumes to censor social media 'misinformation' for the whole world.
Elon Musk has formally taken over Twitter, triumphantly posting "the bird is freed" and immediately firing several top executives as he is set to overturn lifetime Twitter bans and restore freer speech to the platform.
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