Posted on 03/14/2018 3:41:13 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
On March 1, The European Commission -- the unelected executive branch of the European Union -- told social media companies to remove illegal online terrorist content within an hour, or risk facing EU-wide legislation on the topic. The ultimatum was part of a new set of recommendations that will apply to all forms of "illegal content" online, "from terrorist content, incitement to hatred and violence, child sexual abuse material, counterfeit products and copyright infringement."
The European Commission said, "Considering that terrorist content is most harmful in the first hours of its appearance online, all companies should remove such content within one hour from its referral as a general rule".
While the one-hour ultimatum is ostensibly only about terrorist content, this is how the European Commission motivated the new recommendations:
"The Juncker Commission made security a top priority from day one. It is the most basic and universal of rights to feel safe in your own home or when walking down the street. Europeans rightly expect their Union to provide that security for them – online and offline. The Commission has taken a number of actions to protect Europeans online – be it from terrorist content, illegal hate speech or fake news... we are continuously looking into ways we can improve our fight against illegal content online. Illegal content means any information which is not in compliance with Union law or the law of a Member State, such as content inciting people to terrorism, racist or xenophobic, illegal hate speech, child sexual exploitation... What is illegal offline is also illegal online".
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But then, the "social media" companies are in cahoots with same elected and unelected bureaucrats in monitoring and controlling the masses.
See nothing, say nothing. Eventually you’ll get to think nothing.
A Great Wall of Europe in cyberspace! It would suit them, genetic fascists that they are!
Maybe they could buy the technology from the ChiComs.
A big, beautiful cyber-wall!! LOL!!!
Just as long as it doesn’t interfere with the Sodomite/Mohammadan agenda.
Benjamin Franklin once said:
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Then you can be nothing, eat nothing-burgers, stand for nothing, and fall for anything.
So now they have no liberty or safety. Speaking out against Islamofascism is now “hate speech”. Anti-Semitism? Well, identifying the source as Islamofascists would be “hate speech”.
the object is to stop reporting of Islamic
terrorism, Islamic crime, and all rapes by
EU officials and EU judges of children.
Trump needs to address this fascist turn in Europe.
And all talk of following England’s example and leaving the EU.
Ee youu ee youu
uber alles uber ales
in der welt...
Send the antifas there. Fill a hole with a hill.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
The EU policy is “We’re going to “protect you” by preventing you from saying what you think.”
The EU claims it is representing ‘western civilization’ in the best traditions of the freedoms and rights the west has adopted since the days of the enlightenment.
At the very beginning of that process, and with a voice that resonated throughout the enlightenment and long after, was the philosopher Voltaire, to whom the following words have been attributed: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”.
[While it has been shown that there is no written quote left from Voltaire that matches those words (it comes from one of his biographers), historians agree it is keeping with the philosophy Voltaire espoused.]
The EU and many nations in the EU lie about what they are up to when it comes to speech. Their’s is not about the enlightenment inspired “western civilization” but the dark night of civilization the author George Orwell anticipated in Animal Farm and 1984.
We have those who celebrate the anti-western civilization the EU is descending into, and try to impose it here in the U.S. as well.
And, despite Brexit, Facebook is already taking action.
Facebook bans right-wing British group
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/413101
Facebook banned the right-wing ‘Britain First’ group from using its platform. Facebook said that its decision was made after determining that Britain First was publishing anti-Islamic material. “We do not do this lightly, but they have repeatedly posted content designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority groups, which disqualifies the pages from our service,” Facebook said...
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
I use a variety of online bible study tools. I’ve come to the conclusion that they won’t be available for long.
The Bible is racist. Calls for genocide of Canaanites and Amalek, discrimination against Amonites, Moabites, Egyptians. Homophobic. They’re bound to ban it. Will they also ban the Koran and the Tawhid? Misogynistic, anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, anti-heathen. Homophobic, too, I’m sure. What about the New Testament and the Baghavad Gita? Will they ban them, too?
...be it from terrorist content, illegal hate speech or fake news... we are continuously looking into ways we can improve our fight against illegal content online. Illegal content means any information which is not in compliance with Union law or the law of a Member State, such as content inciting people to terrorism, racist or xenophobic, illegal hate speech, child sexual exploitation... What is illegal offline is also illegal online".
Thanks Eleutheria5. IOW, the EU's EC will continue to use force against banned opinions, unless it's in support of jihad and terror -- while making sure the tap is opened even wider to admit jihadists as citizens.
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