Not a fan of the band, but this captures the moment in its finest cynicism:
Posted on 11/25/2025 10:58:57 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The EU’s new plan to regulate speech, media, and elections.
The European Union has just unveiled the so-called European Democracy Shield. The name, while promising, claims to “protect” democracy on the basis of two pillars which, on principle, should raise concerns: combating “disinformation” and “foreign interference.”
To that end, the EU will create a new European Centre for Democratic Resilience, intended to collect data from Member States on information manipulation; foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI); and phenomena classified as disinformation. The same package also includes a European network of independent fact-checkers and a European Digital Media Observatory, which will be endowed with monitoring and analytical capacities during elections or moments of crisis.
Regarding free elections and the risk of foreign interference, the Commission additionally proposes to finance “independent journalism.” The irony that journalism financed by political institutions can never be genuinely independent seems lost on the Commission.
The European Democracy Shield is framed as an initiative to “reinforce” democracy at a time when the Union fears a rise in external hostilities. Yet, when examined closely, it reveals deeply troubling signs for the very democracy it claims to defend, beginning with the fact that it relies not on objective, legally defined threats, but on inherently subjective categories such as “disinformation,” “foreign interference,” or “information crises.” The subjectivity of these concepts allows such a wide margin of interpretation that it does not just risk turning into an instrument of political control; it seems almost designed as one.
The European Union is, after all, a supranational entity about which most Europeans do not feel fully informed, governed by a Commission that is not directly elected by the people. It therefore lacks the democratic, and moral, legitimacy to dictate how national democracies should function.
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Just call it the Ministry of Truth and have done withe the bull crap.
It is so very Orwellian. The Euros must see that, and but for some reason are still okay with it.
Or they could go full Soviet. The USSR had a Department of Agitation and Propaganda. They were more honest about their dishonesty.
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Not a fan of the band, but this captures the moment in its finest cynicism:
Of course I say it facetiously. The whole charade began with the Marshall plan, mobilized in 1948 to deconstruct the nation-state.
Now you will read on Wiki, that France in 1792, took to war against Europe. What an anachromism, all to keep from saying "Holy Roman Empire."
There was and never has been a Europe as a political entity. So AI declares the gospel truth: "Europe has never existed as a single, unified political entity named "Europe" throughout history."
I see that: anachronism.
Flags are dangerous!
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