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Killing Free Speech in Canada
Killing Free Speech in Canada As has become standard in such cases, the charter contains no definition of what constitutes “hate”, making it a catchall for whatever the Canadian government deems politically inopportune. This is all exhaustingly familiar by now: Germany already has legislation that requires social media platforms to censor their users. France is […]
UN Launches All-out War on Free Speech
UN Launches All-out War on Free Speech In other words, forget everything about the free exchange of ideas: the UN feels that its ‘values’ are being threatened and those who criticize those values must therefore be shut down. Naturally, the UN assures everyone that, “Addressing hate speech does not mean limiting or prohibiting freedom of […]
EU: Telling Europeans What to Think
EU: Telling Europeans What to Think The above initiatives, of course, exist in addition to all the other measures that the EU has put in place to “guide” Europeans onto the path of proper thinking… which the untransparent and unaccountable online tech giants — Facebook, Google, Twitter and Mozilla — signed in October 2018, and […]
EU: Going Full Orwell
EU: Going Full Orwell The problem is that this professedly noble initiative comes from an organization that has already for several years been censoring free speech in Europe. The handbook guidelines state that journalists should “Take care not to further stigmatize terms such as ‘Muslim’ or ‘Islam’ by associating them with particular acts… Don’t allow […]
Europe: More Nifty Censorship from the EU
Europe: More Nifty Censorship from the EU Sadly, the main victims of many of the abuses that the European Commission seemingly wishes to silence are often Muslims, often women and children, and often too scared to speak out. One of the foremost tools used by the EU is its “Code of conduct on countering illegal […]
Big Tech Snuffing Free Speech; Google’s Poisonous ‘Dragonfly’
Big Tech Snuffing Free Speech; Google’s Poisonous ‘Dragonfly’ If the big social media companies choose what to publish and what not to publish, they should be subject to the same licensing and requirements as media organizations. Google has decided it will not renew a contract with the Pentagon for artificial intelligence work because Google employees […]
EU: Politicizing the Internet
EU: Politicizing the Internet Even before such EU-wide legislation, similar ostensible “anti-terror legislation” in France, for example, is being used as a political tool against political opponents and to limit unwanted free speech. In France, simply spreading information about ISIS atrocities is now considered “incitement to terrorism”. It is this kind of legislation, it seems, […]
EU: More Censorship to “Protect” You
EU: More Censorship to “Protect” You There appears to be a huge disconnect here between the EU’s professedconcern for keeping Europeans safe — as expressed in the one-hour rule — and the EU’s actual refusal to keep Europeans safe in the offline world. The result is that Europeans, manipulated by an untransparent, unaccountable body, will […]
Why Are European Governments So Terrified of ‘Fake News’?
Why Are European Governments So Terrified of ‘Fake News’? When Swedish authorities representing a Swedish left-wing government and media announce a project to prevent “fake news” from “decisively influencing” the 2018 elections, this ought to set off loud alarm bells among Swedes. Who determines what constitutes “fake news” anyway? Is it not the very essence […]
Sweden’s New Government Censorship
Sweden’s New Government Censorship In the report, placing the word “refugees” in quotation marks, as well as “unaccompanied children,” is supposedly an expression of “hate”. (Many, if not most, migrants classified as “unaccompanied children” have turned out to be grown men). Government agencies are going out of their way to protect the “integrity” of possible […]
Europe: Journalists Against Free Speech
Europe: Journalists Against Free Speech Gone is all pretense that journalism is about reporting the facts. These are the aims of a political actor. Being bought and paid for by the EU apparently counts as “press freedom” these days. According to the guidelines, journalists should, among other things, “Provide an appropriate range of opinions, including […]
Germany: Full Censorship Now Official
Germany: Full Censorship Now Official Courts Rewrite History Germany has made no secret of its desire to see its new law copied by the rest of the EU. When employees of social media companies are appointed as the state’s private thought police and given the power to shape the form of current political and cultural […]
European Parliament Censors Its Own Free Speech
European Parliament Censors Its Own Free Speech The rule strikes at the very center of free speech, namely that of elected politicians, which the European Court of Human Rights has deemed in its practice to be specially protected. Members of the European Parliament are people who have been elected to make the voices of their […]
