Here we are: the EU creates a network of censors. Freedom of opinion is in danger!
Source: Marcello Foa
The European Union and the United States have been preparing the ground for a year and a half. And now here we are: Soon we will have a network of fact-checkers, naturally independent, naturally abiding by a rigorous code of ethics and naturally dedicated to the supreme cause: the fight against fake news or the monster that shakes the establishment's sleep.
All this, actually, as I have been saying for some time, it has only one purpose: legitimize the introduction of censorship, limit the impact and spread of non-mainstream ideas, naturally denying that it is censorship. But so it will be: there is no true democracy when someone claims the right to decide what is true and what is false, and making it inviolable and sacred, what is actually a very dangerous form of strabismus, because it only points to part of the problem, fake news spread by social media, and the real scandal is ignored, which is represented by the manipulation of news created within governments, whose impact is infinitely greater. Any lie about Syria, on Ukraine, on Greece remains rigorously unpunished, as long as it originates within an institution, precisely those institutions that now demand, for our good, to limit the boundaries of freedom of expression.
The European Union yesterday took another fateful step, announcing measures, “preparatory”, waiting for further "fine-tuning", already announced for December. The setting is soft, so as not to alarm the masses and in fact few media talked about it; the outcome, but, it's a given. It cannot be otherwise when it is announced, as did the EU Security Commissioner Julian King who
The manipulation of public opinion through fake news is a real threat to the stability and cohesion of our European societies
announcing
the creation before the summer of an independent European network of fact-checkers and in September of a European platform on disinformation to help them in their work. Furthermore, Brussels will launch a new call this year for the production and dissemination of quality information on the EU through data-driven news..
Already, but what checks? What data? Those certified by Macron or the US State Department who decided to bomb Syria without evidence, only on the basis of news reported by the media and social media? Those issued by NGOs which, although presenting themselves as non-governmental, are actually financed by Western governments, becoming a disguised but very effective tool in the context of modern asymmetric wars?
King also launched social media measures from Facebook and Twitter, just as Zuckerberg, to the European Parliament, he announced the creation of a small army of twenty thousand guardians to guarantee the fairness of the "2019 European elections" that is, to take away the lifeblood and visibility of sovereignist ideas and movements that are critical of the EU. Therefore to limit freedom of opinion from above, as happens only in authoritarian regimes.
Unfortunately, the scenario we outlined by Alberto Bagnai is confirmed, Vladimiro Giacché and myself, during the very crowded conference which took place last Saturday in Rome, organized by The dissident intellectual and by the association a/symmetries. A conference that aroused the enthusiasm of those present and which you can follow thanks to Byoblu by Claudio Messora, who filmed it.
The looming battle for truly free information will be tough, very hard. And we will need it, like never before, of your support.
Here is the video, good vision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPakayBRjac