Posted on 09/01/2023 9:00:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
The European Union has been accused of creating Orwellian “ministries of truth” that will ensure wrong thoughts are not allowed in a bid to tackle disinformation online. The Mail has the story.
It is expected that those in charge of the platforms that must comply with the regulation will prioritise advice given by EU-approved “trusted flaggers” and fact-checkers monitoring information posted online.
Cristian Terhes, a Romanian MP and Member of the European Parliament, argued the bloc’s Digital Services Act provides it with enough power to rule on what content is true and false when it appears on the websites of some of the world’s biggest providers.
He told the Telegraph: “The European Commission has taken a page out of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and demanded that EU member states set up Government-sponsored ministries of truth to ensure that wrong thoughts and banned words are not allowed into the digital space.
“Surely in a democratic society, it’s the public, who hear or have access to all arguments, who are the ones to make up their mind on the truth or attractiveness of certain facts, ideas or parties.
“Surely it is for the people to hear and decide what they hold as true or desirable rather than Government bodies.”
The Digital Services Act aims to protect European users when it comes to privacy, transparency and removal of harmful or illegal content.
The regulation, which was put into effect on August 25th, outlines the need for the EU’s 27 member states to set up a network of “trusted flaggers”, with expertise in monitoring illegal or harmful content.
The rules aim to set new standards for policing hate speech, disinformation and counterfeits on the web, and all large digital platforms must follow them.
The new standards were implemented to tackle how tech giants such as Google and Facebook operate in Europe, but websites and online platforms bringing in 45 million monthly users will also be included.
Instagram and TikTok are among the 19 platforms that must comply with the special obligations under the regulation.
It’s by now obvious to most people that so-called ‘trusted flaggers’ are just organs for enforcing a politically-approved version of events. We’ve seen this repeatedly during the pandemic, where anything which contradicts the constantly shifting official narrative is labelled ‘misinformation’ and subject to suppression and censorship online.
The growing trend towards totalitarian European speech policing – where EU institutions grant themselves power to dictate what is true and false and censor all they deem false – somehow needs to be stopped.
Worth reading in full.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12469157/EU-accused-taking-page-Orwells-1984-creation-ministries-truth-ensure-wrong-thoughts-not-allowed-bid-tackle-disinformation-online.html
Make Orwell fiction again!
That store only looks like it was looted.
That Koran quote is just one of many sentences in the Koran.
They aren’t subtle.
We know what they’re doing.
They know that we know.
They are doing it anyway.
They are daring people to stop them.
As soon as anyone does try to stop them, then that’s when the gloves come off and they get to do what they really want to do.
We are here.......................
The EU should never have been created. It relinquished the sovereignty of all the nations that joined to an unelected body of insane globalists.
Not ‘insane’, EVIL.....................
This is where we are heading.
I need a TShirt!!
South Africa has no crime.
The African National Congress has been 100% peaceful throughout its entire existence.
Biden has not shown signs of dementia.
White defendants in the USA are never railroaded.
What are the “fact checkers” going to do?
From my POV, the chains will also come off of ourselves and we’ll also get to do what we really want to do.
We’re doing the same thing here.
And this allows any criminality on the part of the government, to be covered up by the "trusted flaggers".
Boogaloo time!
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Link to Daily Mail article (at end of posted text above) as an actual active link
I have one.
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