A small example of censorship, yet another one
For some time now, we've been seeing “age verification” for various websites, not necessarily pornographic ones, under the pretext of “protecting children” (from what nobody knows, given that Reddit is full of porn and isn't subject to this verification, just to give a massive and well-known example), and we're starting to see it being used for mere censorship.
Meanwhile, we see how Reddit, for those who use it Meta etc, massively censor users who publish things unwelcome to whichever GAFAM company is involved, essentially the nazi international, because this is what stems from the anglophone kleptocracy and those who follow it worldwide.
So, a short post to suggest thinking about it, remembering that this isn't the first attempt to take the mickey under the guise of protection. Think of the controversies over “scanning everyone's files” in search of child porn and photos of one's own toddler having a bath being flagged, while sites that actually sell real child porn proliferate happily. Think of ChatControl, the subsequent EU implementation of the same trend, and so on.
You know the principle; it's Chomsky's Boiling Frog metaphor. It proceeds in tiny steps that seem innocent to the average person, distracted by the suffocating and fast-paced life they have, submerged in social media content from the giants, empty content designed to generate dopamine and PR to persuade, which added together lead to formal dictatorship. Today, sites are blocked “by age”; tomorrow, the identity of an unwelcome journalist will prevent access to the sites that 99% of people use to communicate, de facto cutting them out of society.
Now think of the individuals sanctioned by the EU, having their bank accounts frozen, making their lives impossible, without having committed crimes or being put on trial and condemned for them. So far, I've gathered: Xavier Moreau, Frédéric Baldan, Jacques Baud, Nathalie Yamb, Alina Lipp, Hüseyin Dogru, Thomas Röper, and Nathalie Yamb, but I don't know how many others there are. What I do know is that if someone were to become a PR for an opposing regime, as they are said to be (a thing anyway formally perfectly legal, as free speech BTW), we should have seen their manifestos widely circulated. Because these are the voices that the EU nazi-Commission push. Instead, most people know nothing about these people. Censorship works; here, it's just the same as in China. Here, as in China, most people don't see it.
Think about it, because in the end, it will be your turn too.
PS meanwhile the same Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters...