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Avi Shamriz, the father of one of the three Israeli captives murdered by the Israeli military on Friday, says the sniper who killed him knew he was a captive.
“It was clear that he knew who he was dealing with."
Why would the IDF be killing their own people in Gaza?
“It was clear that he knew who he was dealing with."
Why would the IDF be killing their own people in Gaza?
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Despite being shirtless, wearing no masks and in a group of three men waving a white flag, highly trained IDF soldiers confused this man for a 'Hamas Terrorist' and killed him with 2 others....
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GAZA LIKE WARSAW GHETTO:
"In the name of “never again,” we have to ask if this [Gaza] is like a ghetto. And if what we’re witnessing now in this indiscriminate killing, in this — in an onslaught that has displaced almost all the people of Gaza, that has made them homeless, if that is substantially similar to what we saw in some places during the Holocaust, then what is the world going to do about it? What is the world going to do in the name of “never again”?" Masha Gessen
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/15/politics_of_memory_masha_gessens_hannah
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"In the name of “never again,” we have to ask if this [Gaza] is like a ghetto. And if what we’re witnessing now in this indiscriminate killing, in this — in an onslaught that has displaced almost all the people of Gaza, that has made them homeless, if that is substantially similar to what we saw in some places during the Holocaust, then what is the world going to do about it? What is the world going to do in the name of “never again”?" Masha Gessen
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/15/politics_of_memory_masha_gessens_hannah
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We speak with the acclaimed Russian American writer Masha Gessen, whose latest article for The New Yorker looks at the politics of Holocaust commemoration in Europe. Gessen was scheduled to receive the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize in Germany on December…
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Ai Wei Wei was a darling of the Western art world because he was critical of the Chinese government. As soon as he criticised Israel, cancelled. Masha Gessen a darling of the Western intelligentsia because she criticised the Russian government. Now that she criticised the Israeli government, her prize giving is "postponed".
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RIVER OF FREEDOM - NZ Box Office Success
- Mini-documentary released today!
People are very excited about [River of Freedom]. Excited to see it and buzzing when they get out.” 💬 🥰
- Katrina, cinema owner, Everybody’s Theatre, Ōpunakē
📺 Watch on YouTube NOW!
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- Mini-documentary released today!
People are very excited about [River of Freedom]. Excited to see it and buzzing when they get out.” 💬 🥰
- Katrina, cinema owner, Everybody’s Theatre, Ōpunakē
📺 Watch on YouTube NOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OH2ykx1_A4
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RIVER OF FREEDOM - NZ Box Office Success
FOR INFORMATION ON ALL ONLINE PLATFORMS: https://riveroffreedom.nz/
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Breaking news and analysis on day 74 of Gaza's Al-Aqsa Flood | The Electronic Intifada Podcast
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Our first review from the USA!
"The documentary River of Freedom is a filmic record of the protests in New Zealand against the COVID lockdown policies and the mandating of vaccines." 👍
"It shows how the New Zealand politicians, when confronted by the protestors, hid in the building..." 🧐😅
"...The film shows the protestors engaging in many “extreme” activities such as singing songs, having sausage sizzles, and talking about love a lot. When the politicians refused to meet them ... they doubled down by having more sausage sizzles, singing more songs, and passionately speaking of the need for people to treat each other well." 😍🥰😘
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https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/river-of-freedom-documentary-exposes-the-brutal-covid-tyranny-of-new-zealands-jacinda-ardern/?utm_source=most_recent
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"The documentary River of Freedom is a filmic record of the protests in New Zealand against the COVID lockdown policies and the mandating of vaccines." 👍
"It shows how the New Zealand politicians, when confronted by the protestors, hid in the building..." 🧐😅
"...The film shows the protestors engaging in many “extreme” activities such as singing songs, having sausage sizzles, and talking about love a lot. When the politicians refused to meet them ... they doubled down by having more sausage sizzles, singing more songs, and passionately speaking of the need for people to treat each other well." 😍🥰😘
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‘River of Freedom’ documentary exposes the brutal COVID tyranny of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern
'What emerges from the film is a political class without conscience. It turns out the Ardern government’s COVID advisory group knew early on about the vaccine side effects and advised the cabinet against the mandates. But the government went ahead anyway.'
"Tue Dec 19, 2023 - 1:16 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The documentary River of Freedom is a filmic record of the protests in New Zealand against the COVID lockdown policies and the mandating of vaccines. It has made its mark locally. Despite being ignored by the mainstream media, and only playing on a few screens, it reached number 10 in the box office.
In parliament Michael Wood, the minister for Workplace Relations and Safety said, after pretending to have some understanding of the protestors’ fears, that underneath it all was “a river of filth, a river of violence and menace, a river of anti-semitism, and … a river of Islamophobia”. What the latter two claims were about is anyone’s guess. Oh, and I nearly forgot. There was also a “river of genuine fascism”.
Enraged, the politicians unleashed the police who looked very much like the “river of violence and menace” that Wood mentioned. Except it was the state sending it, not the protestors. Even then, the reaction was mostly peaceful despite a number of the protestors being hurt.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/river-of-freedom-documentary-exposes-the-brutal-covid-tyranny-of-new-zealands-jacinda-ardern/
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'What emerges from the film is a political class without conscience. It turns out the Ardern government’s COVID advisory group knew early on about the vaccine side effects and advised the cabinet against the mandates. But the government went ahead anyway.'
"Tue Dec 19, 2023 - 1:16 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The documentary River of Freedom is a filmic record of the protests in New Zealand against the COVID lockdown policies and the mandating of vaccines. It has made its mark locally. Despite being ignored by the mainstream media, and only playing on a few screens, it reached number 10 in the box office.
In parliament Michael Wood, the minister for Workplace Relations and Safety said, after pretending to have some understanding of the protestors’ fears, that underneath it all was “a river of filth, a river of violence and menace, a river of anti-semitism, and … a river of Islamophobia”. What the latter two claims were about is anyone’s guess. Oh, and I nearly forgot. There was also a “river of genuine fascism”.
Enraged, the politicians unleashed the police who looked very much like the “river of violence and menace” that Wood mentioned. Except it was the state sending it, not the protestors. Even then, the reaction was mostly peaceful despite a number of the protestors being hurt.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/river-of-freedom-documentary-exposes-the-brutal-covid-tyranny-of-new-zealands-jacinda-ardern/
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‘River of Freedom’ documentary exposes the brutal COVID tyranny of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern
What emerges from the film is a political class without conscience. It turns out the Ardern government’s COVID advisory group knew early on about the vaccine side effects and advised the cabinet against the mandates. But the government went ahead anyway.
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For Palestinians, "October 7th" started in 1948, & never ended:
"Six Basic Facts About the Nakba Everyone Should Know"
"Palestinians do not think of the Nakba just as a historic event, but as a type of ongoing existence. It is reaffirmed in every encounter with a soldier at a checkpoint, every land expropriation and restriction on movement, or war on Gaza.
When the Partition Plan was voted on, most of the land in the proposed Jewish state was not under Jewish ownership and was home to 350,000 Arab Palestinians. The Jewish state was to include the city of Haifa and its port, the country’s main economic asset; the coastal plain that was the home of most of the Palestinian citrus industry; the roads traversing the length of the country; and the fertile lands of the valleys. The entire Negev was designated for the Jewish state despite extremely limited Jewish land ownership there, on the assumption that Jews had a greater potential to develop it in the future rather than existing ownership or land rights.
5. Why don’t Palestinians put the past behind them?
For Palestinians, the Nakba is not the past. It is the present. The process that began in 1948 has essentially never ended. After the war, Israel expropriated Palestinian lands and imposed a military administration on its Palestinian citizens which lasted until 1966. Then, in 1967, Israel imposed military rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The military government and the settlement project continue to appropriate more and more Palestinian lands, overrunning Palestinians’ individual liberties, human rights, and basic dignity, practically destroying the possibility of Palestinians establishing an independent state in the future.
The removal of the Palestinian population is what enabled Israel’s formation as a democratic country with a clear Jewish majority. The erasure of Palestinian culture and history is what enabled the modern State of Israel to draw a direct connection between itself and the biblical era, while ignoring the long and rich Arab history of the land.
Without the Nakba, Israel as we know it could not have come into being. This places a considerable responsibility on Jewish Israelis to recognize the loss upon which their country is built." Dotan Halevy, Maayan Hillel, and the Editors of the Social History Workshop. Haaretz. Israel.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/six-basic-facts-about-the-nakba-everyone-should-know/00000188-2e5d-d6e4-ab9d-eefdb0fe0000
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"Six Basic Facts About the Nakba Everyone Should Know"
"Palestinians do not think of the Nakba just as a historic event, but as a type of ongoing existence. It is reaffirmed in every encounter with a soldier at a checkpoint, every land expropriation and restriction on movement, or war on Gaza.
When the Partition Plan was voted on, most of the land in the proposed Jewish state was not under Jewish ownership and was home to 350,000 Arab Palestinians. The Jewish state was to include the city of Haifa and its port, the country’s main economic asset; the coastal plain that was the home of most of the Palestinian citrus industry; the roads traversing the length of the country; and the fertile lands of the valleys. The entire Negev was designated for the Jewish state despite extremely limited Jewish land ownership there, on the assumption that Jews had a greater potential to develop it in the future rather than existing ownership or land rights.
5. Why don’t Palestinians put the past behind them?
For Palestinians, the Nakba is not the past. It is the present. The process that began in 1948 has essentially never ended. After the war, Israel expropriated Palestinian lands and imposed a military administration on its Palestinian citizens which lasted until 1966. Then, in 1967, Israel imposed military rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The military government and the settlement project continue to appropriate more and more Palestinian lands, overrunning Palestinians’ individual liberties, human rights, and basic dignity, practically destroying the possibility of Palestinians establishing an independent state in the future.
The removal of the Palestinian population is what enabled Israel’s formation as a democratic country with a clear Jewish majority. The erasure of Palestinian culture and history is what enabled the modern State of Israel to draw a direct connection between itself and the biblical era, while ignoring the long and rich Arab history of the land.
Without the Nakba, Israel as we know it could not have come into being. This places a considerable responsibility on Jewish Israelis to recognize the loss upon which their country is built." Dotan Halevy, Maayan Hillel, and the Editors of the Social History Workshop. Haaretz. Israel.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/six-basic-facts-about-the-nakba-everyone-should-know/00000188-2e5d-d6e4-ab9d-eefdb0fe0000
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A statement by Andrew Bridgen MP:
"This morning, I have made the incredibly difficult decision to resign from the Reclaim Party.
I would first of all like to thank Laurence and all of the team at Reclaim who have been excellent and supported me wholeheartedly for the last 9 months.
I have come to this decision purely because of a difference in the direction of the Party, I will still wholeheartedly support the policies and values of the Reclaim Party and wish them all of the best in their future endeavours
However, I need to make a very important decision with a general election pending in the first half of next year. I need to put North West Leicestershire first, above any Party allegiance. I will continue standing up and fighting for the people of North West Leicestershire and delivering what is best for them.
I have consistently campaigned against HS2 since my first election in 2010, I have been at the forefront of exposing scandals such as the modern day slavery cover up in Leicester and the Post Office Horizon scandal which was debated in the House of Commons yesterday.
I have been standing up for those who have been injured by vaccines and exposing the worrying cover up of Trends in Excess Deaths on a national and indeed global scale"
ENDS
"This morning, I have made the incredibly difficult decision to resign from the Reclaim Party.
I would first of all like to thank Laurence and all of the team at Reclaim who have been excellent and supported me wholeheartedly for the last 9 months.
I have come to this decision purely because of a difference in the direction of the Party, I will still wholeheartedly support the policies and values of the Reclaim Party and wish them all of the best in their future endeavours
However, I need to make a very important decision with a general election pending in the first half of next year. I need to put North West Leicestershire first, above any Party allegiance. I will continue standing up and fighting for the people of North West Leicestershire and delivering what is best for them.
I have consistently campaigned against HS2 since my first election in 2010, I have been at the forefront of exposing scandals such as the modern day slavery cover up in Leicester and the Post Office Horizon scandal which was debated in the House of Commons yesterday.
I have been standing up for those who have been injured by vaccines and exposing the worrying cover up of Trends in Excess Deaths on a national and indeed global scale"
ENDS
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UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR:
"The genocidal trip many Israelis [and Americans, British, Europeans] are on" - a form of collective madness, a mass formation psychosis, a collective hypnosis geared towards genocide & its denial:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737112308672016760.html?s=09
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737112308672016760.html?s=09
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UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR:
"The genocidal trip many Israelis [and Americans, British, Europeans] are on" - a form of collective madness, a mass formation psychosis, a collective hypnosis geared towards genocide & its denial:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737112308672016760.html?s=09
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"The genocidal trip many Israelis [and Americans, British, Europeans] are on" - a form of collective madness, a mass formation psychosis, a collective hypnosis geared towards genocide & its denial:
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@YehudaShaul: [1] Incitement, Racism, & Extremist Politics have spread amongst the rank and file of IDF units. Artists were invited to perform for the troops and are emboldening these trends and especially the call ...…
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NBC NEWS:
Fears mount for Gaza’s tiny Christian community after mom and daughter shot dead
'The mother and her adult daughter were shot dead while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said in a statement.'
"TEL AVIV — The fatal shooting of a mother and daughter in Gaza’s only Catholic church over the weekend highlights the pressure Christians in the enclave are under, with fears mounting that their tiny population could be wiped out during the war.
In the weeks since Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack, many members of the enclave’s ancient Christian community of some 1,000 sought refuge in two church complexes in the north: the St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church and the nearby Catholic Holy Family Church.
On Saturday, a mother and her adult daughter were shot dead while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Catholic regional body whose territory formally includes Cyprus, Jordan, Israel and Palestinian territories, said in a statement.
“They were shot in cold blood,” the patriarchate said of Nahida Anton and her daughter, Samar Anton, blaming an Israel Defense Forces sniper. “One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety,” while at least seven others were shot and wounded as they tried to “protect others inside the church compound,” it said."
Chantal Da Silva, NBC London
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fears-mount-gazas-tiny-christian-community-mom-daughter-shot-dead-rcna130132
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Fears mount for Gaza’s tiny Christian community after mom and daughter shot dead
'The mother and her adult daughter were shot dead while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said in a statement.'
"TEL AVIV — The fatal shooting of a mother and daughter in Gaza’s only Catholic church over the weekend highlights the pressure Christians in the enclave are under, with fears mounting that their tiny population could be wiped out during the war.
In the weeks since Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack, many members of the enclave’s ancient Christian community of some 1,000 sought refuge in two church complexes in the north: the St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church and the nearby Catholic Holy Family Church.
On Saturday, a mother and her adult daughter were shot dead while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Catholic regional body whose territory formally includes Cyprus, Jordan, Israel and Palestinian territories, said in a statement.
“They were shot in cold blood,” the patriarchate said of Nahida Anton and her daughter, Samar Anton, blaming an Israel Defense Forces sniper. “One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety,” while at least seven others were shot and wounded as they tried to “protect others inside the church compound,” it said."
Chantal Da Silva, NBC London
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fears-mount-gazas-tiny-christian-community-mom-daughter-shot-dead-rcna130132
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Fears mount for Gaza’s tiny Christian community after mom and daughter shot dead
The mother and her adult daughter were shot dead while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said in a statement.
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Europe On Cusp Of Mass Secret Censorship
Corporate news media and governments applaud crackdown on free speech as EU censorship officials open office in San Francisco
by @shellenberger
French President Emmanuel Macron; Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
In Europe, as in the United States and other free nations, people are going about their business as normal. Christmas lights illuminate city centers, where people are shopping for gifts. Students are taking final examinations and preparing to come home from the university for the holidays. And people are having debates over social and political issues, in person and online, as though nothing has changed.
But something has changed: the European Commission, the executive branch of the 27-nation European Union, is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown on free speech. Its main target is X, formerly known as Twitter.
Unlike other large social media platforms, X has refused to comply with the secret censorship demands that Europe’s top censor, Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, has demanded.
In response, Breton opened “formal infringement proceedings” against the company owned by Elon Musk today. They include, according to Breton, “Suspected breach of obligations to counter #IllegalContent and#Disinformation.”
Breton has not yet imposed censorship or threatened punishment of X. There is still time for Breton to back off and allow free speech to flow freely on the social media platform.
But it doesn’t look good. It looks as though the EU and X are headed toward a head-on collision, with the EU demanding secret censorship by committees of “experts” to decide what is true and not true.
X pulled out of the “voluntary” EU censorship pact in May but today said it “remains committed to complying with the Digital Services Act and is cooperating with the regulatory process.”
Whether or not X complies with EU demands, the EU appears to be headed for mass secret censorship of its citizens. X may be forced to decide whether to comply or leave Europe.
Corporate news media celebrated Europe’s crackdown on free speech. “The inquiry is perhaps the most substantial regulatory move to date against X,” enthused the New York Times, “which has seen a rise in incendiary content on the platform, according to researchers.”
Reporting by Associated Press had the tone of a class tattletale. “The EU has called out X,” wrote the reporter, “as the worst place online for fake news, and officials have exhorted owner Musk to do more to clean it up.”
It’s unclear if these reporters realize that Europe is taking a big step toward becoming as closed of a society as China. If X leaves Europe, Europeans would need to use a VPN, or virtual private network, to illegally access the website, as people in China must do to evade government censors.
The mainstream news media organizations do not mention that they, and governments, have themselves been spreading false information, including about the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Many Americans may wonder why we should care. Europe is far away. Its leaders are doing what their citizens want. And we are still protected by the First Amendment.
We should care. Though Europe is backward on the free speech issue compared to the U.S., it has historically been allied with the United States in pushing for free speech worldwide.
What’s more, as Europe falls to totalitarian speech controls, the pressure will grow for social media to censor more in the U.S. Already, 7 out of 10 Democrats, up from 4 out of 10, want the government to help Big Tech censor wrongspeak.
And Europe’s ambitions are to censor us Americans, not just its own citizens. To make its intentions clear, the European Commission even opened an office near Twitter in downtown San Francisco.
Corporate news media and governments applaud crackdown on free speech as EU censorship officials open office in San Francisco
by @shellenberger
French President Emmanuel Macron; Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
In Europe, as in the United States and other free nations, people are going about their business as normal. Christmas lights illuminate city centers, where people are shopping for gifts. Students are taking final examinations and preparing to come home from the university for the holidays. And people are having debates over social and political issues, in person and online, as though nothing has changed.
But something has changed: the European Commission, the executive branch of the 27-nation European Union, is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown on free speech. Its main target is X, formerly known as Twitter.
Unlike other large social media platforms, X has refused to comply with the secret censorship demands that Europe’s top censor, Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, has demanded.
In response, Breton opened “formal infringement proceedings” against the company owned by Elon Musk today. They include, according to Breton, “Suspected breach of obligations to counter #IllegalContent and#Disinformation.”
Breton has not yet imposed censorship or threatened punishment of X. There is still time for Breton to back off and allow free speech to flow freely on the social media platform.
But it doesn’t look good. It looks as though the EU and X are headed toward a head-on collision, with the EU demanding secret censorship by committees of “experts” to decide what is true and not true.
X pulled out of the “voluntary” EU censorship pact in May but today said it “remains committed to complying with the Digital Services Act and is cooperating with the regulatory process.”
Whether or not X complies with EU demands, the EU appears to be headed for mass secret censorship of its citizens. X may be forced to decide whether to comply or leave Europe.
Corporate news media celebrated Europe’s crackdown on free speech. “The inquiry is perhaps the most substantial regulatory move to date against X,” enthused the New York Times, “which has seen a rise in incendiary content on the platform, according to researchers.”
Reporting by Associated Press had the tone of a class tattletale. “The EU has called out X,” wrote the reporter, “as the worst place online for fake news, and officials have exhorted owner Musk to do more to clean it up.”
It’s unclear if these reporters realize that Europe is taking a big step toward becoming as closed of a society as China. If X leaves Europe, Europeans would need to use a VPN, or virtual private network, to illegally access the website, as people in China must do to evade government censors.
The mainstream news media organizations do not mention that they, and governments, have themselves been spreading false information, including about the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Many Americans may wonder why we should care. Europe is far away. Its leaders are doing what their citizens want. And we are still protected by the First Amendment.
We should care. Though Europe is backward on the free speech issue compared to the U.S., it has historically been allied with the United States in pushing for free speech worldwide.
What’s more, as Europe falls to totalitarian speech controls, the pressure will grow for social media to censor more in the U.S. Already, 7 out of 10 Democrats, up from 4 out of 10, want the government to help Big Tech censor wrongspeak.
And Europe’s ambitions are to censor us Americans, not just its own citizens. To make its intentions clear, the European Commission even opened an office near Twitter in downtown San Francisco.
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Meanwhile, advertisers and the corporate news media are waging the mother of all economic wars on Musk’s X, demanding that it engage in more secret censorship and “cooperate” with “researchers” who want X’s data, so that they can tell the company not just who but also which whole narratives to censor, just as they already do at Facebook, Threads, Instagram, and Google.
Concerns that Facebook would censor on behalf of a foreign government grew earlier this year when reporter Lee Fang reported that the Ukrainian government routed censorship demands through the FBI to Facebook, and that the company acted on them.
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Concerns that Facebook would censor on behalf of a foreign government grew earlier this year when reporter Lee Fang reported that the Ukrainian government routed censorship demands through the FBI to Facebook, and that the company acted on them.
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