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Twitter: EU Warns Musk Not to Restore Free Speech Protections After Calls from Clinton and Other Democratic Leaders
jonathanturley.org ^ | Nov 2, 2022 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 11/02/2022 12:14:30 PM PDT by monkeyshine

We have been discussing how Democratic leaders like Hillary Clinton called on foreign companies to pass censorship laws to prevent Elon Musk from restoring free speech protections on Twitter. The EU has responded aggressively to warn Musk not to allow greater free speech or face crippling fines and even potential criminal enforcement. After years of using censorship-by-surrogates in social media companies, Democratic leaders seem to have rediscovered good old-fashioned state censorship.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) declared Musk’s pledge to restore free speech values on social media as threatening Democracy itself. She has promised that “there are going to be rules” to block such changes. She is not alone. Former President Obama has declared “regulation has to be part of the answer” to disinformation.

For her part, Hillary Clinton is looking to Europe to fill the vacuum and called upon her European counterparts to pass a massive censorship law to “bolster global democracy before it’s too late.”...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; elizabethwarren; elonmusk; eu; eufascism; europeanunion; fourthreich; loganact; massachusetts; musk; speech; technofascism; truthsocial; twitter
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To: monkeyshine

The puppet heads have the EU right where we want them, oblivious, stupidly happy, and delussional


81 posted on 11/02/2022 3:41:33 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Deplorable American1776

Rising above the fray, Musk can just ignore them and thereby carry the day


82 posted on 11/02/2022 3:42:36 PM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: monkeyshine

Lizard Warren, Hitlery Rotten Criminal, Bronco Bama, and the EU fairies can all ESAD!


83 posted on 11/02/2022 4:14:50 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Striperman

How so?


84 posted on 11/02/2022 4:15:53 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Flick Lives

Run Twitter “headers” in th EU:

As of >date to be determined< you may have Twitter, OR you may have the Twits who run your country. You may not have both; one or the other WILL GO AWAY. Choose wisely.


85 posted on 11/02/2022 4:22:42 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: monkeyshine

They are scared that they can not control the narrative.


86 posted on 11/02/2022 5:26:04 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Striperman

How so? He hadn’t caved. From the beginning he said his first action was to remove bots. Then he would work on restoring accounts. He just got there.


87 posted on 11/02/2022 5:28:08 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: monkeyshine

Can’t wait to see how Elon tells the EU to pound sand.
He really has a great sense of humor. :)


88 posted on 11/02/2022 7:16:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: monkeyshine

Come Musk, sue her ass for restraint of trade damages.


89 posted on 11/02/2022 10:38:58 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Marxmarvelous

“There’s no value for them.”

You clearly have no understanding of the human ego.


90 posted on 11/03/2022 4:41:48 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
Wouldn't that be counterproductive as the EU can't block Starlink, so they are going to get twittered at whether they like it or not.

You are probably right, as I am not very Social Media Technology aware.

I don't use or hold Social Media accounts except Free Republic.

91 posted on 11/03/2022 6:59:20 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: dforest
Western countries have become more like commies than the people they accuse of being commie.

Funny, I noticed that, too.

92 posted on 11/03/2022 7:02:46 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: monkeyshine
Twitter Fact Checked Biden's Claim about how he increased The Largest Gain in Social Security Checks since the 70s and the White House deleted the Tweet in embarrassment and now the left has to clamp down on Musk because he just turned the kitchen lights on and the roaches had to scurry away into the dark corners.

You've got to give Elon credit. He has upset the apple cart even more than what President Trump did. Too bad he is not native born. (Maybe we could get him one of those Hawaii Birth Certificates!)

93 posted on 11/03/2022 9:27:17 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd...)
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To: BenLurkin

Great quote my friend, thank you.


94 posted on 11/04/2022 6:12:46 AM PDT by Syncro (Netanyahu Is The Leader of The Free World! : > )
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To: HollyB

Exactly Holly!

They are losing their grip on the narrative and it’s scaring them to death!


95 posted on 11/04/2022 6:15:26 AM PDT by Syncro (Netanyahu Is The Leader of The Free World! : > )
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To: HKMk23

France told Rumble to censor some stuff.

Rumble pulled their platform out of France.

Excellent move!


96 posted on 11/04/2022 6:18:32 AM PDT by Syncro (Netanyahu Is The Leader of The Free World! : > )
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To: HKMk23

Check this out down this thread:

France told Rumble to censor some stuff.

Rumble pulled their platform out of France.

Excellent move!

96 posted on 11/4/2022, 6:18:32 AM by Syncro


97 posted on 11/04/2022 6:21:57 AM PDT by Syncro (Netanyahu Is The Leader of The Free World! : > )
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To: Syncro

EXCELLENT move.

I had Cantor Fitzgerald stock that converted to Rumble shares, so I’m vested in this deal.


98 posted on 11/04/2022 1:19:04 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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