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Excellent analysis to read and share! Under the pretext of fighting against foreign interference and misinformation, Macron's government wants to transform information regulation into control of public speech. In a democracy, to convince, to debate, to mobilize, to contest the (translated)

Germany warns US against election interference after it announces $3 million grants to Europeans who "address national sovereignty, migration, censorship, lawfare challenges, with shared political philosophy, law, common western civilizational heritage” https://t.co/iluwCMFso1 #ElectionInterference #Sovereignty #WesternValues #DE #US

WITNESS TO HISTORY Mike Walsh. All major book publishers, including Amazon, banned this ultimate truth-telling illustrated book. Despite censorship, this is the most widely read modernising true history of Adolf Hitler and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. https://barnesreview.org/product/witness-to-history-the-reich-legend-uncensored/

WITNESS TO HISTORY Mike Walsh. All major book publishers, including Amazon, banned this ultimate truth-telling illustrated book. Despite censorship, this is the most widely read modernising true history of Adolf Hitler and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. https://barnesreview.org/product/witness-to-history-the-reich-legend-uncensored/

In a few years, Europe will be governed by right wing governments, and they will read your encrypted messages, prevent you from posting and reading ideas they disagree with and even jail you for wrongthink, and the current governments create the laws making that possible #RightWing #Censorship #FreeSpeech #EU

Tätähän näemme jo nyt. Puheenaihe-podcastin jakso, joka arvosteli EU:n komission Chat Control -ehdotusta, on estetty koko EU:n alueella. Jaksossa ei ole mitään sellaista sisältöä, jonka vuoksi sensuroinnille olisi pienintäkään perustetta – paitsi että se on EU:n poliittiselle eliitille epämieluisa. Jos vaihtaa VPN-asetuksen EU:n ulkopuolelle, jakson pääsee katsomaan. #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech #EU

"It’s true that there is an anonymous mob with practically unlimited power on the platform. But this is only one dimension of Wikipedia’s problems. Let me explain." Read the truth behind the founder's ban: #Wikipedia #Censorship #AnonymousPower #Nospecificcountrycodesfoundinthetweet.

The restriction of VPNs, which are one of the ways you can access the world wide web even if your government tries to stop you, is the hallmark of authoritarian regimes like China, Russia and Iran. U.K. is now on course to join them. #VPN #Censorship #Authoritarianism #CN #RU #IR #GB

Our first interview from our trip to Israel & Palestine: Legendary reporter Anat Saragusti (Union of Journalists in Israel) on censorship, freedom of the press, and the coverage of the war in Gaza https://t.co/SFFfWjD4IY https://t.co/3OeQy6ZBgZ #PressFreedom #GazaConflict #Journalism #IL #PS

Germany just passed a law that can land regular people in prison for liking, sharing, or commenting on stuff from media outlets banned in Europe. Like Russia Today, for example. Pretty soon it could be Xinhua, or X itself, or American conservative outlets — the pro-MAGA, #FreeSpeech #Censorship #GermanyLaw #DE #RU #US #CN

Ο Ελον Μασκ ξεφτίλισε τον ελεεινό Μερτς και το γερμανικό κράτος!! DIE WELT: Ο Elon Musk ανέβασε ολόκληρη την ταινία «Citizen Vigilante» του σκηνοθέτη Uwe Boll στην πλατφόρμα X (πρώην Twitter). Η ταινία, με πρωταγωνιστή τον Armie Hammer, αφηγείται την ιστορία ενός πρώην στρατιώτη που παίρνει τον νόμο στα χέρια του και εκδικείται εγκληματίες μετανάστες και διεφθαρμένους αξιωματούχους. Στη Γερμανία η ταινία δεν έλαβε έγκριση από το FSK (το γερμανικό συμβούλιο κινηματογραφικής αυτοελέγχου) και ουσιαστικά απαγορεύτηκε για προβολή σε κινηματογράφους και streaming υπηρεσίες, λόγω της προώθησης της αυτοδικίας. Ο Boll χαρακτήρισε την απόφαση λογοκρισία. Ο Musk έκανε την ταινία διαθέσιμη δωρεάν για 48 ώρες, με εκατομμύρια προβολές ήδη. Η κίνηση προκάλεσε έντονες αντιδράσεις στη Γερμανία για θέματα ελευθερίας έκφρασης και λογοκρισίας. #ElonMusk #Censorship #FreedomOfExpression

Thousands of Europeans are on the Russian blacklists, some are increasingly operational. A blacklist only has to be read once. After that it lives inside every official who trims a sentence before Moscow can object. Russia does not silence us. We silence ourselves and call it #Russia #Blacklists #Censorship #EU #RU

Silencing @CNEWS is the only obsession of the government, which reproaches the channel, via @Arcom_fr, for not polishing the presidential boots. This liberticidal regime is supported by "labeled" media that see nothing of the threatened freedom of expression. Read @maxsaada (translated)

For decades, a conservative physician and his socialist neighbour disagreed about almost everything in Finnish politics. They argued, played tennis, shared meals, and remained close friends until the end of their lives. That sounds unremarkable. In the current political climate across the Western world, it feels almost radical. In my new Nordic Ledger column, I write about what has changed — and why the missing ingredient is not better fact-checking, stronger institutions or smarter politicians. It is something the French Revolutionaries understood well enough to carve in stone alongside liberty and equality, but that contemporary democracies have quietly abandoned in practice. The column covers the mechanics of democratic erosion: how political identity replaced political disagreement; how online harassment achieves what censorship cannot; how the war against institutions matters more than any individual lie; and why Brexit was not really about Europe. The underlying argument is simple, though not comforting: democracies are not primarily threatened by their enemies. They are threatened by the habit of treating opponents as enemies. https://open.substack.com/pub/nordicledger/p/the-missing-word-in-democracy?r=mwsn6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true