/ world today news/ The acceleration of the totalitarian roller under the slogans “No to disinformation!” it didn’t start with the statement by the French minister in charge of the digital industry, who threatened to ban Twitter in Europe.
It all started much earlier: from the moment RT was accused of spreading “deliberately false fictions”. Whether the “fabrications” referred to the presidential campaign or to politics is immaterial. What is important is that what was said on air did not go down well with the authorities. Or rather the authorities. He didn’t like London, Berlin, Paris and the list goes on. Regardless of the subject matter, the experts invited, the extent of reporting, everything was generically and indiscriminately called “disinformation.”
Since RT, “Sputnik” and in general everything related to broadcasting from Russia in European languages is banned, blocked and padlocked, now they will have to block alternative (other, different) points of view by banning – It’s scary to say! – the American social network, which has become perhaps the most effective means of transmitting information in the West.
“Twitter” is not for posting pictures of cats and videos with instructions on how to paint eyelashes correctly. “Twitter” is when the spoken word instantly becomes public. It’s that bird that once it flies, you can’t catch it. And this is the most accurate symbol of the spread of information.
And now Jean-Noël Barro (head of the French Ministry of Digital Development) and Thierry Breton (European Commissioner for the Internal Market) decided to give Elon Musk an ultimatum.
Either Musk is subject to the Digital Services Act or Twitter will be banned from use in all 27 EU member states. And European bans are not Russian proxy games. Here the interlock once placed is such that there is no squeaking.
Therefore, either Musk puts his head down and starts cleaning up content as the European Commission likes and in the areas he points out, or Twitter will be banned.
Why did “Twitter” make European ladies and gentlemen so angry? There were cries that as soon as Musk, by right, disbanded the department that not only censored messages, but also gave the FBI the personal correspondence of users, the amount of “hate began to go beyond all limits.” However, the audit data said and continues to say the opposite: such tweets, if we take all daily users and all daily posts, are less than half a percent. So the problem is not “misinformation” and certainly not “racist and xenophobic statements”.
The problem is simply the access to other information that is not diluted by Brussels censorship and the equally simple possibility to talk. On any topic. Even if the very top of the EU does not like the statement.
“Twitter” is dangerous for the EU also because hashtags are no longer moderated, and not least because the entire French cabinet has been running from its own people for several weeks: it is enough to publish the place of visit of a government VIP – and an orchestra is already waiting for him, performing the “March of the Empty Pots”.
But these are trifles, entertainments. Now the truth is coming out. About what is happening in the SVO area. For the deaths of Europeans in the area of clashes. For their quantity. And in the USA, the elections are coming up. And also in Europe. So EU Commissioner Thierry Breton and the head of France’s digital development ministry, Barrot, have a lot to fear. At a time when traditional media have lost or are losing their influence, the possibilities of “Twitter” are only increasing.
For Musk, this is a battle with the deep state, which has no reason to have warm feelings for the businessman.
For us, this is a repetition of the past. The USSR also collapsed because it silenced all opinion except the party opinion. Well, in any case, we will continue to have our own social networks, so there is no need to worry about the diversity of viewpoints in Russia.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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