The EU, online censorship, and cancelling the presumption of innocence

 

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The EU, online censorship, and cancelling the presumption of innocence

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“The EU’s Digital Services Act has recently come into effect.

“It requires internet platforms to remove what the EU calls ‘illegal content’ proactively or immedately after it has been flagged, or face dire financial consequences …

“This is, in fact, the largest and most far-reaching online censorship program ever implemented.

“Of course, the EU maintains that … only ‘illegal’ content is to be removed.

“… [But the] rules that only ‘illegal’ content will be removed can be swept aside at a moment’s notice …



“… [Having] witnessed the world’s reaction to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we now know how easy it is to manufacture the appearance of a crisis.

“One just has to get the Press … and everything else falls into place …

“… [The] EU wants to enable the people in power in its bureaucratic apparatus — and those of its member states — to silence any information that is inconvenient to them.

“They aren’t simply fighting thoughtcrime.

“They are fighting thought-precrime …

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What Is ‘Illegal Content” Anyway?

“In a democratic state, under the rule of law, there is but one institution that decides if an act — whether it be by hand, by mouth or by keyboard does not matter — is illegal: 

THE COURTS …

“If the rule of law still holds, how can a ‘trusted flagger’ report someone for ‘illegal content’?

“If we still adhere to the presumption of innocence, would not a court have to decide if the act of speech that produced that content was illegal in the first place?

“Either the content they are talking about is in fact not illegal at all, or they are trying to eliminate the presumption of innocence …”

https://privatecitizen.press/episode/161/