{"id":64844,"date":"2023-01-24T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64844"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:53:15","slug":"eu-technocrat-threatens-musk-with-sanctions-unless-he-stamps-out-free-speech-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64844","title":{"rendered":"EU Technocrat Threatens Musk With &#8220;Sanctions&#8221; Unless He Stamps Out Free Speech On Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__Eyn7V\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__MEgbb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/davos-eu-commisioner-warns-sanctions-against-twitter-unless-musk-complies-eu\">EU Technocrat Threatens Musk With &#8220;Sanctions&#8221; Unless He Stamps Out Free Speech On Twitter<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__t4rGu\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__6iJOI NodeBody_container__hI8PI\">\n<p>The battle over Twitter is often made to appear complex and chaotic, but it can all be boiled down to a simple dichotomy &#8211;\u00a0<em><strong>It&#8217;s about the people who demand censorship in favor of the establishment narrative vs. the people who want free speech and fair rules applied to everyone equally.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everything else is noise and distraction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The complications arise when we try to define free speech when it comes to social media.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Private companies are not subject to many legal boundaries related to free speech rights.\u00a0 This is an argument that the political left and government representatives made constantly during the massive purge of conservative and liberty oriented accounts by Big Tech companies since 2016.\u00a0 And, as we saw with Twitter previous to Elon Musk&#8217;s takeover, governments took full advantage of this legal loophole in order to silence people using social media websites as middlemen.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing release of the Twitter Files proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that collusion between Big Tech and governments for the sake of censorship is a reality.\u00a0 In America, at least, this is a constitutional no-no.\u00a0 The fact that politicians and agencies like the FBI were actively seeking out and targeting ideological opponents and having them silenced on Twitter is a direct violation of the 1st Amendment and these people should be subject to prosecution (the FBI even shelled out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/elon-musk-fbi-overreached-online-censorship\">at least $3 million<\/a>\u00a0to Twitter for services rendered).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prosecution might never happen, but at least the evidence is undeniable today after years of the public being lied to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reality that Twitter was acting as an enforcement agent for government censorship around the world tells us exactly why so many establishment officials have been up in arms over Musk&#8217;s purchase of the platform&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU Technocrat Threatens Musk With &#8220;Sanctions&#8221; Unless He Stamps Out Free Speech On Twitter The battle over Twitter is often made to appear complex and chaotic, but it can all be boiled down to a simple dichotomy &#8211;\u00a0It&#8217;s about the people who demand censorship in favor of the establishment narrative vs. the people who want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5096,279,284,2703,1109,819,4318],"class_list":["post-64844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-elon-musk","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-free-speech","tag-sanctions","tag-twitter","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64845,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64844\/revisions\/64845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}