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Mexican President Promises To Lead International Coalition Against Big Tech Censorship, Compares To ‘Spanish Inquisition’
National File ^ | 01/15/2021 | Tom Pappert

Posted on 01/14/2021 9:43:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the President of Mexico, plans to form a coalition with other national leaders to fight back against big tech censorship after the platform banned President Donald Trump and at least 70,000 of his supporters last week, comparing it to the Spanish Inquisition, a report from the Associated Press reveals.

“I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue,” López Obrador told the AP. “Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression.”

He added, “How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?”

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, said the country has already started to speak to likely allies in this new quest to end big tech censorship at the international level.

READ MORE: Mexico’s President Says COVID Lockdowns Are ‘Dictatorship’

“Given that Mexico, through our president, has spoken out, we immediately made contact with others who think the same,” Ebrard said, according to the AP. Ebrard claims the country has already received responses from officials in France, Germany, the European Union, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

This comes only hours after Project Veritas released a video recorded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, sent to them by a whistleblower. In the video, Dorsey indicates that banning President Trump’s account is only the first step, and that further purges will see far more accounts banned. Dorsey also said the purges will not end after Joe Biden’s inauguration.

“I don’t think this is going away anytime soon, and the moves that we’re making today around uh Qanon for instance, one such example of a much broader approach that we should be looking at and going deeper on,” said Dorsey. He adds, “our role is to protect the integrity of that conversation, and do what we can to make sure that no one is being harmed based off that.”



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amlo; bigtech; censorship; freedomofspeech; mexico
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1 posted on 01/14/2021 9:43:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

When Mexico is leading USA on censorship we have fallen far, far down


2 posted on 01/14/2021 9:44:24 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: SeekAndFind

Good for him for standing up to the Big Tech Hitlers. Things will be so bad under Illegitimate Biden there might be a human caravan heading into Mexico from the north.


3 posted on 01/14/2021 9:52:30 PM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: SeekAndFind
I quite Twitville the very same day Trump was banned. During the time I was there they were pushy with alternative subjects and people to follow but I stuck with Trump and a few Conservatives. Fortunately I had already signed up with Gab just after big brother tech shut down Gab and Gab recovered. Not a lot of folks there after recovering from the punch.
4 posted on 01/14/2021 9:53:04 PM PST by Nateman (Democracy dies with voted fraud darkness.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That wall is going to keep all the Americans who value Freedom out of Mexico. The left is going to make it a Berlin Wall.


5 posted on 01/14/2021 9:55:35 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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To: GOP Poet

Mexico’s President has actually stood with Donald Trump in challenging the Democrats’ corruption this election and now the influence and outright censorship by Big BOTHER/Big Tech.


6 posted on 01/14/2021 9:56:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: GOP Poet

“From San Diego on the Pacific to Brownsville on the Gulf of Mexico, a silicon curtain has descended across the Continent.”

Winston Churchill, updated.


7 posted on 01/14/2021 9:57:42 PM PST by Dagnabitt
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To: SeekAndFind

Its a national security issue. Many countries promote their own “national champions” in social-media, because otherwise, you are giving Silicon Valley control over the most modern and powerful propoganda network. Its been used to deadly effect in the “color revolutions” in Georgia and Ukraine and also the Arab-spring.

Many nations are tired of the US Deep State’s schemes, and now with Big Tech revealing themselves as puppets in these schemes - the world has the pretext they need to cut them off at the knees.


8 posted on 01/14/2021 9:58:22 PM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

When the Mexican Presdent is concerned of the implications of free speech and big tech censoring it than the left in the US who is celebrating it, you know you have a problem.


9 posted on 01/14/2021 10:31:56 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: GOP Poet

And he’s a socialist to boot!


10 posted on 01/14/2021 10:43:37 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I wasn’t expecting that.


11 posted on 01/14/2021 10:44:03 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dagnabitt

Nice!


12 posted on 01/14/2021 11:20:08 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: dfwgator

He delayed recognition of Beijing Biden as the next POTUS


13 posted on 01/14/2021 11:25:05 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: GOP Poet

He is protecting his own tail.
He is socialist himself so you can not trust him .


14 posted on 01/14/2021 11:32:56 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: aquila48

“And he’s a socialist to boot!”

Exactly . He is protecting his own tail . He can’t be trusted .


15 posted on 01/14/2021 11:34:44 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yes, he did. It’s so interesting that Mexico’s president and several other world leaders (including Angela Merkel, for crying out loud) are treating President Trump with a degree of fairness that is completely absent in our own Democrat-Media-Complex-run country.


16 posted on 01/14/2021 11:37:30 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, well, well. Looks like Pres. Obrador is beginning to see that Pres. Trump was right on a lot of issues. Hope he does unite what part of Latin American that is not socialist/Marxists, into a powerful coalition against Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Apple and related electronic dictatorships.

I wonder if they can legally ban those operations in their country unless they reform and stop the censorship.

Also, watch Brazil. The leader is a no-nonsense conservative who doesn’t mind taking out his countries enemies, politically and possibly otherwise.


17 posted on 01/14/2021 11:41:42 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

>>I wonder if they can legally ban those operations in their country unless they reform and stop the censorship.

Look to Uganda.

And Donald Trump tried to ban ChiComSpyAppTikTok and look at the blowback he got from popstar nurses and that-ho-on-twitter(THOTs).


18 posted on 01/14/2021 11:59:27 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: PGR88

I considered that possibility, that other countries might see this as a (legitimate) pretext for dismantling the US (and incidentally leftist, though that might not be such an issue) monopoly on social media. I’m interested to see how the Eastern European bloc reacts.


19 posted on 01/15/2021 12:28:04 AM PST by mrsmel (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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TRUMP HAS MANY OF THE WORLDS LEADERS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST
THE BIG TECH CENSORS.

AUSTRAILIA, GERMANY, INDIA , MEXICO ARE JUST A FEW WHO
SEE THIS AS POLITICAL INTERFERENCE.

MEANWHILE CCP POSTS ARE LEFT UP AND THE WORLD SEES THE DOUBLE STANDARD.


20 posted on 01/15/2021 2:12:19 AM PST by Zenjitsuman (whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTHtWUWfvpg)
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