Media blackout as politicians in EU, US, UK, Brazil, Ireland, Canada, and Australia seek to outlaw wrongthink
The key area of action is the European Union. It is seeking sweeping new powers to regulate social media companies. And if it acts, it may change how social media companies operate worldwide, given the EU’s economic power and influence globally.
Officials have introduced these policies mostly in the dead of night with little publicity or outcry. There has been a virtual blackout of what’s happening by mainstream news media corporations, with many appearing to support the new laws. If we are to defeat it, we must understand it. Why are governments seeking to crack down on freedom of speech from New Zealand to the Netherlands and Brazil to Canada? Why now? And why are they getting away with it?{"mime_type":"image/jpeg","url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c3f01b6-e4f3-40a9-be75-76b22805084d_3000x2000.
And yet surveys show that people in western societies have been becoming more tolerant for decades. For example, the percentage of Americans who The Brazil law proposes censorship to protect institutions from violence and institutional delegitimation following last year’s attack on Congress, which was eerily similar to the January 6 security failure in Washington, D.C.Article content
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