I've been done with this guy for years. WTF!?!
Elected leaders worldwide call on Brazil to back off censorship as global elite call for more
Brazil's actions "could set a dangerous precedent that quickly spreads," EU, U.K., Mexico, South America leaders warn. Bill Gates floats real-time AI censorship, Robert Reich wants Musk arrested worldwide for "disseminating lies and hate."
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Elected leaders worldwide call on Brazil to back off censorship as global elite call for more
Brazil's actions "could set a dangerous precedent that quickly spreads," EU, U.K., Mexico, South America leaders warn. Bill Gates floats real-time AI censorship, Robert Reich wants Musk arrested worldwide for "disseminating lies and hate."
With U.S. authorities' silence on Brazil's Supreme Court upholding a nationwide ban on X and $9,000 fines for users who circumvent technical blocks – and the Democratic vice presidential nominee claiming the First Amendment doesn't protect "hate speech" or "misinformation" – foreign leaders elsewhere are stepping up to defend free speech in Latin America and globally.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss, three members of its House of Lords, Chilean presidential runner-up José Antonio Kast, current and former lawmakers from Mexico to South America and the European Parliament, five Republican state attorneys general and prominent journalists and academics joined an open letter organized by Alliance Defending Freedom International.
"This situation extends far beyond Brazil, serving as a striking example of a growing trend of censorship by government officials, who are becoming increasingly aggressive in suppressing speech they find objectionable," the 100-plus signatories told Brazil's Federal Senate and Chamber of Deputies. Brazil's actions "could set a dangerous precedent that quickly spreads."
American and European elites, from philanthropist Bill Gates and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich to Truss's predecessor Tony Blair, are increasingly speaking favorably of suppressing challenges to official government narratives, even preemptively.
Reich may have gone the furthest, laying out a six-point roadmap in the U.K Guardianto "rein in" X owner Elon Musk through economic boycotts, canceled government contracts and arrest for "disseminating lies and hate" wherever the Donald Trump-endorsing billionaire travels, approvingly citing France's arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov.
"I certainly see a position where the world's going to have to come together and agree to some rules around social media platforms," Blair told "Leading Britain's Conversation" last week when asked directly if the U.K. "may have to follow Brazil's lead" on punishing platforms for disinformation in light of the country's own recent protests against unchecked immigration.
As for "what the answer is and what the right system of regulation is, I'm not sure," but "there's got to be" something because "people can provoke, you know, hostility and hatred," Blair said. . . .
STORY CONTINUES AT LINK but it is a damn shame to see Americans joining in to call for censorship considering that we have a 1st Amendment to our Constitution that GUARANTEES freedom of speech