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At some point you need to draw a hard line in sand when it comes to people trying to actively supress freedom of expression. Otherwise they just keep trying an
by NotGMan 10mo ago
At some point you need to draw a hard line in sand when it comes to people trying to actively supress freedom of expression.
Otherwise they just keep trying and trying. A bully won't stop until he gets punched in the face, and this is what the USA did to the EU bully bureaucrats pushing their will everywhere.
Shame that so few of us Europeans do the same.
- jauntywundrkind 10mo agoLand of the free looking like rank shitty low cowards, afraid of every shadow these days. Absolutely no tolerance, demanding subservience. It's totally up-side down, just madcap that any of this is OK with anyone. All Correct turning to All In-Correct, all wrong.
- drooopy 10mo agoIf you wanna operate in a market you have to follow said market's rules and regulations, full stop and period. The only ones actively trying to suppress freedom of expression are the bullies and borderline sociopaths currently in the US executive.
- cbeach 10mo agoIf you've ever read Thierry Breton's personal (and public) threats towards Elon Musk you'd understand who the real "bully and borderline sociopath" was. Breton once threatened Musk simply for hosting an interview with the democratically-elected President of the US on X: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-elon-musk-donald-trump-interview-thierry-breton-letter-social-media/ https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-elon-musk-donald-trump-in... EU bureaucrats have behaved terribly and deserve our contempt.
- 3D30497420 10mo agoWhile I don't love over-regulation, and there certainly are some parts of the DSA which are probably over-broad, it is astonishingly rich that the current US administration is targeting the EU for "suppressing freedom of expression".
- cbeach 10mo agoIn the UK we told the EU bully bureaucrats to go f*ck themselves in 2016. The same thing is possible in all EU nations - never give up hope. The EU bureaucracy stunts growth on the continent. It's undemocratic (only the executive can originate and repeal law - and they are appointed, not elected), protectionist, bullying, expensive and unnecessary. Successful nations like Switzerland and Norway (#3 and #4 highest GDP per capita in the European continent) show that you don't need to be an EU member state to prosper, maintain peaceful government and strong human rights protections.
- ykonstant 10mo ago>Successful nations like Switzerland and Norway I absolutely love the absence of the UK in your list.
- fragmede 10mo agoThey said successful.
- fakedang 10mo agoThe UK has a lower (and declining) GDP per capita than most countries in Western Europe.
- cbeach 10mo agoWhen, in 2029, we have our first decent government in decades, let’s have this conversation again. Both the Tories and Labour have squandered the opportunities afforded by Brexit. Both parties are weak globalist shills. Current polling suggests the situation in 2029 will be very different, and we will enjoy an administration that puts the national interest at the forefront of every policy decision. No more narrow-minded focus on the EU27, and much more focus on our service export to the dynamic English speaking economies of the world. No more growth-killing EU directives lingering on our statute books. No more deference to foreign human rights lawyers. The UK is perfectly capable of administering its own improved British Bill of Rights. No more unskilled immigration lowering our national productivity and hammering our limited infrastructure and public services. Targeted legal immigration at the volume we need and no more.
- derriz 10mo agoAlso banned: “Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the US-based Center for Countering Digital Hate; Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of the German non-profit HateAid; and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index” The bullies are anti-disinformation and anti-hate speech activists? The USA using its diplomatic power to become a defender of hate-speech and disinformation? I guess when JD Vance deliberately snubbed the democratically elected government of the country when visiting Germany and instead spent his time with a far-right neo-nazi party, it should have been clear which way the wind was blowing.
- NotGMan 10mo agoIf you still in 2025 don't understand that hate speech and anti-disinformation is a trick used by people who want to forcefully censor others who don't agree with them then I don't know what to tell you.