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Posted on 11/19/2025 5:57:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
Digital censorship has been underway in the E.U. for nearly a decade, but last week Brussels took it to a new level. The European Commission unveiled the latest weapon in its arsenal — the European Democracy Shield and accompanying E.U. Strategy for Civil Society — billed as a plan to “protect democracy,” a descriptor that usually means anything but that. The Shield is justified largely as a response to Russia’s information operations and, increasingly, to China’s Gray-Zone warfare. One of its premises is that member-states cannot handle the threats on their own.
E.U. leaders say the initiative is designed to “enhance democratic resilience across the Union,” safeguarding elections, media, and “civil society” from hybrid threats, deepfakes, and foreign interference. Yet in practice, the program’s stated goal to “ensure that the right information reaches citizens” sounds more like a system of control than one of protection. Initiatives like these may mean that those who challenge approved narratives on climate, health, food security, or immigration may be branded as “risk sources.”
The centerpiece is a new European Center for Democratic Resilience in Brussels, branded by some as a kind of “European Ministry of Truth.” The Center will act as a hub linking E.U. institutions, member-states, and candidate countries, pooling expertise and building early-warning systems to detect “destabilization operations” and almost undetectable (at least for the average consumer), coordinated disinformation campaigns. The framework stitches together existing and forthcoming laws, notably the Digital Services Act (DSA), the A.I. Act, and the European Media Freedom Act, all spotlighted in the “political guidelines and this year’s State of the Union address by President von der Leyen.”
It is worth recalling that the DSA, adopted in 2022, gave Brussels sweeping powers over online activity. That same year, the Commission updated the Code of Practice on Disinformation
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The democRATs here had their own “unofficial” Ministry of Truth.
“The democRATs here had their own “unofficial” Ministry of Truth.”
They still do - it’s called THE MEDIA.
If Trump lost the election, we’d have these types of agencies in the US too. And the Dems would be pushing for laws to make misinformation illegal so they could jail their opponents. And they will do it again when they take power back.
This is a very old problem.
The Pharaohs considered it disinformation if you did not believe they were gods.
They had very low tolerance for such “disinformation”.
Bkmk
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
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