Agenda-driven globalists and Leftists who want control over the public are apoplectic over Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover; so now the gloves are coming off.
Flemish Member of European Parliament Tom Vandendriessche notes: “The EU does not want free speech…That is dangerous for their system.” And threats are in order. Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market, warned Elon Musk to “make sure the platform continues censoring content or face the wrath of Brussels.”
Yet Twitter’s agenda-driven proponents of cancel culture continue to pretend to care about public “harm” and “responsibility“….
Regardless of ownership, all social media platforms must be responsible,” said a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “That includes protecting users from harm on their sites….
An example of how glaringly dishonest and activist Twitter (and its supporters) had become was its banning of Donald Trump while permitting the Taliban.
“Elon Musk Twitter Takeover: ‘EU Does Not Want Free Speech’ Warns Euro MP”, by Peter Caddle, Breitbart, May 1, 2022:
A Member of the European Parliament has warned the EU “does not want free speech” after a European Commission official threatened Elon Musk over his takeover of Twitter.
Tom Vandendriessche, an EU-level representative for the Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang party, has said that the European Union “does not want free speech”, accusing the supranational bloc of wanting to “outsource” censorship to Big Tech corporations.
Vandendriessche’s comments come shortly after one of the European Union’s unelected commissioners, Thierry Breton, issued threats to Elon Musk regarding his Twitter takeover, telling the pro-free speech entrepreneur that he must make sure the platform continues censoring content or face the wrath of Brussels.
In a statement provided by the MEP to Breitbart, Vandendriessche argued that Musk’s publicly-expressed goals for the Twitter microblogging platform are positive and in line with what he has argued for personally in the past — and that the European Union is threatening democracy through its harsh regime of outsourced censorship.
“The EU does not want free speech,” the Flemish MEP said. “That is dangerous for their system.”
“They therefore want to ‘outsource’ censorship to private players,” he continued. “They call that ‘taking responsibility’, but it is nothing less than flat censorship.”…
Vandendriessche’s statement on the Elon Musk takeover runs contrary to the views expressed by Europe’s ruling technocrats, with the bloc’s tsar for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, demanding that Musk keeps Twitter’s regime of censorship in place.
“Elon, there are rules,” the EU bigwig said, before referencing issues around so-called “hate speech” and moderation. “You are welcome but these are our rules. It’s not your rules which will apply here,” he warned.
“If [Twitter] does not comply with our law, there are sanctions — 6 per cent of the revenue and, if they continue, banned from operating in Europe,” he went on to threaten….
“Regardless of ownership, all social media platforms must be responsible,” said a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“That includes protecting users from harm on their sites,” the spokesman continued. “It is too early to say what — if any — changes will be made to how Twitter operates.”…
CogitoErgoSum says
Maybe if people are worried about being harmed by using Twitter they should not use Twitter. Just a crazy idea of mine.
Jon Sobieski says
The left does not know about the block button. That is the censorship that is total and complete but sadly only covers one person, when the left wants to push the block button for you.
CogitoErgoSum says
Even if they do know how to use the block button they think everybody else to too stupid to know how to use it so they have to protect all the stupid people they imagine to be out there. I think if a person is smart enough to use the internet and to get onto Twitter that person is not all that stupid.
born saturday says
have no doupt that the authoritarian neo marxist leaders of europe regardless of party, that have led us to the world war and soon after to a new authoritarean new world order, have had a part to play in the corona virus outbreak as well, and on rigged elections all over the west and many other things that we cannot even imagine… the magnitute of their treason in everything, just like the import of islam, is beyond the known limits of the known history….. they are true satans servants who sold everyone to the devil…..
Infidel says
Maybe Twitter should just block itself out of the EU?
gravenimage says
Euro MP warns ‘EU does not want free speech’ after Elon Musk Twitter takeover
Flemish Member of European Parliament Tom Vandendriessche notes: “The EU does not want free speech…That is dangerous for their system.”
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I *think* Tom Vandendriessche is being critical of the stance of the EU here–but it is hard to tell, and I haven’t been able to find any solid information. Any Europeans here who are familiar with his politics?
Kepha says
Poor Europe! No wonder it found itself caught between Fascism and Communism, and now is threatened with inundation by Islam.
Hank says
+10
“European Union’s unelected commissioners”
Scary stuff – and it usually ends up igniting either a civil war or a world war.
Jim Austin says
Such civilized existence that Europeans have is entirely due to the United States. Europeans are much too docile, compliant and submissive to maintain any civilized order themselves. They’re just too eager to bow down, suck up, wimp out, roll over, cave in, knuckle under to bloodthirsty tyrants.
Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. has had to lean on its European allies to put up some sort of defense when Europeans yearned to follow the Finnish policy of complete submission.
Thus any threat of new freedom triggers a crisis among Europeans.
Kepha says
Were I wealthy, there are uncles I’d dig up and ship home from Europe. And, as a [mostly] white American who’s been accused of racism…
Suppose [God forbid] both Europe and West Africa are overrun by Muslim fanatics. Shiploads of refugees are headed towards the US, braving frigid Atlantic waters. Some are African Christians; some are European cultural elites. Uncle Kepha is the President of the USA. He orders the Navy to sink the EUropean elites in mid-Ocean, and help the African Christians to port to start the vetting and processing for refugee status. Sorry, Pat Buchanan. My experience with ESOL kids and traveling has given me a rather positive view of a certain kind of West African immigrant when compared to some of what I’ve seen in Europe. Also, the Weimar cultural figures of an earlier generation who found refuge among us often had a deleterious effect.
BTW, I’d urge all of us to write our honorable [and dishonorable] Congressmen and Senators, urging them that if any nominee to the federal bench appears who’s in the least sympathetic to “hate speech” laws, vote the clown down, then impeach, then remove, and disbar the jerk for life. One Kagan is too much. As for the lady Biden proposed, it is beyond ridiculous that she claims not to know what a woman is. She’s just waiting for the next edition of the Party Line.