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To: monkeyshine

Thanks posting this reality check re liberals here and in the EU!

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 11/2/2022, 12:14:30 PM 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.”...

(Excerpt) Read more at jonathanturley.org ...


32 posted on 11/02/2022 12:41:20 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdeities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: Grampa Dave

HRC’s idea of “democracy” is no different from that of the CCP!


46 posted on 11/02/2022 12:56:00 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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