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Monday, October 14, 2024

Commentary: Foreign Censorship Threatens American Free Speech

On the eve of a highly-anticipated live X “Spaces” conversation between Elon Musk and former president Donald Trump, the powerful European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton warned in August that authorities would be “monitoring” the conversation for “content that may incite violence, hate, and racism.”

While reminding Musk that the EU was already investigating X for alleged failures “to combat disinformation,” Breton said he and his colleagues “will not hesitate to make full use of our toolbox … to protect EU citizens from serious harm.”
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7 comments:

  1. The eu, like mexico, hate America and what's left of our freedoms. The crime ridden country to our south want to sue gun manufacturers due to their incompetence and political criminal structure and the faggots in europe hate free speech and self protection.. Fuck all of them bitches
    JD

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    1. "... sue gun manufacturers due to their incompetence and political criminal structure..." WTF?

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  2. Free speech is legal in the US (First Amendment to the Constitution). So...If you don't like what we're saying on the Internet, YOU find a way to block it in your country!

    Good luck with that BTW.
    juvat

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    1. It's already being done. I get several comments a week from European and British readers saying they can't access certain articles or posts.

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  3. Another example of the EUSSR's attitude to free speech: if they don't approve it, they want it censored.

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  4. There was a reason my family left Europe...

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  5. Odd that Musk, a supposed proponent of free speech just capitulated
    to the dictatorial Brazilian government though.
    - WDS

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