Posted on 05/07/2022 2:20:09 PM PDT by blam
I previously wrote about Hillary Clinton’s call on European countries to pass censorship laws to force social media companies like Twitter to regulate speech even after Elon Musk’s pledge to restore free speech to Twitter. Now the British Parliament has called on Musk to testify and to explain his alarming pledge to restore free speech.
The Biden Administration’s Disinformation Governance Board head, Nina Jankowisz, previously called upon Great Britain to impose state censorship rules. That call has grown since Musk’s purchase. Until now, a unified front of corporate censors was able to maintain an extensive system of censorship with the encouragement of politicians and pundits, including Joe Biden and Democratic members .
The head of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee in the House of Commons, Conservative MP Julian Knight has assured her countrymen that they can stay calm and censor on. She issued a letter for Musk to appear before the committee to answer for his terrifying suggestion of free speech:
“At a time when social media companies face the prospect of tighter regulations around the world, we’re keen to learn more about how Mr Musk will balance his clear commitment to free speech with new obligations to protect Twitter’s users from online harms.”
Like the EU’s censorship plans under the Digital Services Act, the proposed Online Safety Bill would introduce state censorship through the purview of Ofcom (The Office of Communications), the broadcasting regulator in Britain. It would allow the company to fine firms up to ten percent of their global revenue should they violate ill-defined “harm” standards.
If passed, Clinton and others hope that the Europeans can replace corporate censorship with good old-fashioned state censorship. This includes confiscatory fines for anything deemed “grossly offensive.“ The bill would allow countries like Great Britain to impose censorship on the rest of the world.
The decline of free speech in the United Kingdom has long been a concern for free speech advocates (here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here). Once you start as a government to criminalize speech, you end up on a slippery slope of censorship. What constitutes hate speech or “malicious communications” remains a highly subjective matter and we have seen a steady expansion of prohibited terms and words and gestures. Even having “toxic ideologies” is now a crime.
Great Britain would now make censorship one of its greatest exports. To do so, they first have to stomp out advocates for free speech like Musk by threatening to bankrupt his company if it tries to restore free speech to the Internet.
Name them.
To censor you must have control.
3 types: trolls, the admin moderators, the guys who post “Do Not Post To Me” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1888013/posts
IIRC I have challenged YOU to an ideological throwdown in frustration with actual rules being followed...
When people can’t win an argument with facts, censorship is their only alternative. When political speech can be censored, there is no freedom.
From the Twit-verse: ... to learn more about how Mr Musk will balance his clear commitment to free speech with new obligations to protect Twitter’s users from online harms.””
Simple. Anyone who barfs, screams, curses or clutches pearls because of another post gets banned. It’s called FREE speech.
The problem is, you don't know which "side" I'm on in the Russia Russia Russia Ukraine conflict. I've only commented on the arms industry's glee and the lock-step behavior I have witnessed. It is exactly like the hysteria over Trump/Russia, Covid, BLM, "Asian Hate", etc. Brain-dead zombies following the herd, turning on a dime.
Free Speech.
Saying or posting a similar or differing opinion.
The utter horror...
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If Britain or any other member of NATO attempt to censor U.S. citizens then Congress should end all funding and participation in the organization.
You didn’t name them, you categorized them.
***Those are their straightforward names.
The problem is, you don’t know which “side” I’m on
***It matters little. You aint a conservative.
in the Russia Russia Russia Ukraine conflict.
***There is a tell, right there.
I’ve only commented on the arms industry’s glee and the lock-step behavior I have witnessed.
***Then you have nothing to fear in a socon FR-definition-of-conservative throwdown.
It is exactly like the hysteria over Trump/Russia, Covid, BLM, “Asian Hate”, etc. Brain-dead zombies
***Again, another tell. You are not a conservative. Conservatives are far more clear-thinkers than that level of bullsnot.
following the herd,
***I have never followed the herd.
turning on a dime.
***Adding pablum, standard nonconservative maneuver. Accept the throwdown.
Musk should probably sell off the European business of Twitter.
The European governments will probably require him to do so.
“Summoned?” To Parliament?
How’d that happen?
The Ukrainian and Russian knockoffs of American high tech weapons will be sold broadly.
There is a reason we fought for independence from these dumbed down subjects, which is free speech makes for smarter people.
Twitter is not a diplomatic cabinet answering to world government and thus the Parliament can stuff it and mind its own business with its own troops of Muslims in London it cannot control, however
This is signature of weak governments. China is watching
Ukraine was INVADED, dipshiite.
Names or shut up.
case in point….
I think I would tell the Brits to get bent!
“I think I would tell the Brits to get bent!”
I already did so you don’t have to.
Well, bless your heart! (DO not post to me).
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