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European Commission VP Věra Jourová at the WEF:
"Illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S. I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law." pic.twitter.com/iLR1MePTYT
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) January 17, 2023
Does she know something we don’t know? Vera Jourova, who holds the fanciful title of vice president of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, said Tuesday at a World Economic Forum (WEF) panel that “soon” the United States will have “illegal hate speech laws.” Certainly the Left is making a hard push for such laws, but such initiatives always run into a buzzsaw known as the First Amendment. Does Vera Jourova have some insider knowledge about how the Left plans to eliminate that obstacle?
The Daily Caller reported Tuesday that Jourova “participated in Tuesday’s WEF panel on ‘the clear and present danger of disinformation,’ alongside former CNN Host Brian Stelter, Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and media executive Jeanne Bourgault.”
Ah yes, “disinformation.” This has become the authoritarian Left’s favored euphemism for its efforts to stamp out dissent and seal up the public discourse so that only its viewpoint can ever be heard. These totalitarian efforts are just attempts to combat “disinformation,” you see, so that the public doesn’t get confused by fake news and can have free and unfettered access to the limpid and unvarnished truth. We are still enduring the administration that tried to institute a “Disinformation Governance Board,” only to back down in the face of a public outcry, but be assured they will try again to destroy the freedom of speech.
It’s a cannily chosen word. Nobody is going to come out in favor of the dissemination of “disinformation.” But before you nod enthusiastically and say yes, you want benign, kindhearted, and scrupulously impartial government officials to protect you from this sinister “disinformation,” remember that 51 top U.S. intelligence agency officials declared that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation, even while at least one of them (and probably more as well) knew that it was real. The “disinformation” of two years ago is now accepted everywhere as accurate; if the instruments for the suppression of “disinformation” that the Left wants to impose today had been in place when the Hunter laptop story broke, we would never have learned the truth about it.
Jourova said (although the video has intriguingly been made private since the Daily Caller’s story broke): “For hate speech, well, we need the people who understand the language and the case law in the country, because what qualifies as, as hate speech, as illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S.,” and she laughed at the thought of totalitarianism descending upon the Land of the Free, “I think that, we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law, uh, we, uh, we need the platforms to simply work with the language and identify such cases. The AI [artificial intelligence] would be too dangerous.”
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wpm says
An unelected wonk who 95 percent of the world never heard of , one of the “special people who were touched to save the world” in John Easter Island head Kerry own words and Mr. Potato head on stage together marvel comic book heros of 2023 in their own minds. Any honor, trust , the public has had with the MSM has been lost with their childish behavior towards anyone that goes against the agenda Tech giants push lock step with government authorities in power in the western world at this time.
somehistory says
If the “select few” as j kerry calls them (including himself, of course) have their way, it will be as she said.
I watched an old movie, “The Hiding Place,” a few days ago. It begins with a statement from the queen of Holland, if I’m remembering the country correctly.
In the statement, she says that “two weeks ago,” the nation had “freedom of speech,” and now the people are no longer free.
The country was overtaken by the nazis and the freedom to speak, to decide things for themselves…who they could help or befriend, how much they could eat, Whom they could worship, etc…was taken from them in that two weeks.
kerry, schwab, this creepy female, and all of the others who consider themselves a “select few” believe they have the right…by reason of having money and power and influence…to decide things for all the rest of us humans. They decided a long time ago that they could make decisions about what Rights and Authority God has; they decided that He has none. All “rights and authority” belong to them and they will cut our freedoms and then our lives. And since they are cutting our right to speak about these things, we will be forced into silence.
somehistory says
https://ussanews.com/2023/01/19/here-are-5-ridiculous-moments-from-the-davos-summit/#:~:
somehistory says
https://www.rebelnews.com/caught_him_rebel_news_pummels_pfizer_ceo_with_questions_at_world_economic_forum
Scotsman48 says
The current Status of the EU is NOT what the origins of that body was created for as today they are nothing more than an authorization outfit of control over anybody and everything that Europe stands for, basically they are the new fascists.