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Translation; I'm going to throw a temper tantrum because the you're being mean to me after, someone who totally is not me, ruined my plaything that I was, forced to, buy.
Also I am totally wearing clothes, you're just too poor to see them.
EU is starting to more heavily censor things. Social media that is "terrorist sympathizing", "misinformation", or "pro-hamas protests" when in reality what they're doing is cutting off access to information from the other side.
Even on Twitter we're seeing certain accounts get banned. I followed a guy who's part of Hezbollah that would give on the ground updates. He got banned. Many other accounts have too.
Is this what we want? An iron curtain around the internet? So we can't see the other side and they can't see us? It's a dangerous path we're walking towards.
I’m not so sure it’s a dangerous path. There should be limits on what people can say.
I’m saying this as someone who up until the pandemic was very much against limits in ANY speech. There should be consequences for spreading hate and misinformation.
I’m aware that it’s a VERY dangerous and slippery slope too.
have no idea what the right amount of limits even looks like. I’m not an expert by any stretch of the imagination. What I do know is that what we have now isn’t working.
Why isn't it working? What is the harm in people seeing beheadings? Reading the media of the opposite side? We start outlawing "misinformation" and the only information allowed is the official state narrative. People are so quick to forget that governments lie all the time. Weapons of mass destruction was an elaborate lie perpetuated by both governments and the media. When the US blew up a hospital in 2014~2015 in Afghanistan, they immediately denied it and blamed in on the Afghanis. There's multiple examples of Israel killing journalists or bombing civilians and then lying about it.
We live in a post-truth age. Outlawing one lie simply allows the other to proliferate more easily. It's dangerous and we're looking more and more like authoritarian China every passing day.
People should have the right to decide for themselves what sort of media they want to consume. They should be able to decide for themselves what lies they want to believe.