Thursday 8 August 2019
Killing Free Speech
The decline of free speech in Europe.
Why did our forefathers fight in those two wars?
They had some vague idea perhaps that they were fighting for our freedoms.
But now we who owe so much to so few appear to have lost our collective memory. And it seems to be getting worse by the day.
You'd think the French of all people would be grateful that their nation was twice saved by the unholy alliance of Britain, the Commonwealth and the United States of America and would make sure that there was no possibility of the same thing happening again.
But you'd be wrong.
A takeover is in progress.
The days of Dixon of Dock Green are a dim and distant memory.
There is no turning back the clock.
The internet giants and their lackeys will now decide our futures.
A friend of mine recently attended a peaceful protest on behalf of free speech. It turned out to be not so peaceful and my friend was injured.
This was in Britain I'm ashamed to say.
Britain, a country which prided itself on important values such as free speech is also on the slippery slope, whatever the BBC might think or believe.
God Save the Queen.
Killing Free Speech in France, Germany and on the Internet: In early July, France's National Assembly adopted a draft bill designed to curtail online hate speech. The draft bill gives social media platforms 24 hours to remove 'hateful content' or risk fines of up to 4% percent of their global revenue. The bill
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It surely will be a harder fight back this time. May they be up to it.
ReplyDeleteThe Internet is destroying civilization as we, our generation know it.
DeleteWow!!!! You believe whats written by the Gatestone Institute?
ReplyDeleteI believe what my own life experience tells me. I know that busybodies are prying into every aspect of people's lives under some pretext or other, usually it's for our protection they say. But I say that people who give up their freedoms for security will end up with no freedom and no security. This is always the case.
DeleteThe French are once again trying to stop the use of English in advertising etc. Some hope; it seems to be getting worse by the day.
ReplyDeleteDenglisch is what we are getting here. When Austria was ruled by Herrenvolk they printed news in minute difficult to read gothic script and the adverts in larger Times or similar typeface in the same newspaper.
DeleteFrance will be following in the footsteps of Germany.
ReplyDeleteOui. I mean Ja. Italy is in crisis. Austria has no elected government. In Belgium they are demolishing a 700 year old bridge, so bigger ships can get through. Many people know not their own histories. They only know what they find on their smartphones. The only book many of them read is Facebook.
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