Comment by DocTomoe
14 days ago
... and all the social media posts having been pre-approved by Minitrue. What a glorious world we shall live in.
This is no longer just rhetoric. Meanwhile, the EU’s polite, tea-drinking cousin, the UK has quietly deployed a “social media surveillance unit.” Not to fight trolls or bots, of course - but to ensure His Majesty’s Subjects think correctly in public. Doubleplusgood, wouldn’t you say? [1]
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-socia...
„monitoring social media for anti-immigrant posts” amounts to banning wrongthink? Get outta here dude.
Politicians who simultaneously increase immigration and stir up hatred against immigrants will inevitably cause a tragedy.
One does not have to be anti-immigrant to not be happy about immigration policies. It is known at this point that the Kremlin is actively helping migrants to come to Europe. If an enemy knows that this will be to the detriment of Europe, maybe Europeans themselves should also acknowledge that?
Yes but (risky absolute statement) criticizing the policies themselves, in isolation from the immigrants who are already here, never got anyone in trouble with the law.
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There is a human trafficking business fuelled by huge amounts of public money given to NGOs and related, within Europe, by the hands of politicians that are lining their own pockets with this public money. And their political parties are silent about it... (maybe because they distribute part of it within the party contributions latter or who knows). We are talking about thousands of millions of euros annually.
Why are not the "journalists" in Europe investigating this? Je!
I mean, the Kremlin doesn't have such a wide area of influence over all the European borders; they only have influence over part of those borders, in a typical mob-like way (their way, their mob oligarchy). They could not be doing all what is happening alone without help from within Europe. It's all about public money and some politicians pockets within their respective countries - it is an inside job... , cut that money to those NGOs and related, process those corrupts, and see what will happen.
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Because we all know that an instrument given to law enforcement, once installed, is never used for other things later. All the things we set up to combat terrorism or protect children turned out to be used for those exact use-cases.
The problem is the instrument in itself, and the message it sends - not the officially intended use.
Turns out that sending death threats is actually a crime.
If the UK was only arresting people for posting death threats, you might have a point.
That’s not what’s happening, and not the kind of speech suppression that people are worried about.
Some of it is less extreme, but there’s no suppression of normal critique of policy.
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