European Commission Wants To Censor Talk On The Great Reset
European Commission Wants To Censor Talk On The Great Reset
EU gives their opinion after an email fight
After much wrangling, The Daily Beagle managed to receive comment from “a European Commission Spokesperson” (their preference, not ours), on a series of questions we asked relating to freedom of speech online in the European Union.
One question we asked:
What examples of disinformation are the EU referring to?
The EC replied (bold emphasis theirs):
You will find examples of coordinated information manipulation effort by the Russian leadership, including disinformation, as documented and exposed since 2015 by the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force. These ranges various topics and forms. The EEAS Stratcom Task Forces will continue to analyse and expose influence operations and the spread of disinformation and continue reporting on the disinformation trends and narratives.
Regarding the DSA, on 16 November (2022) the Digital Services Act (DSA) entered into force. It sets out an unprecedented new standard for the accountability of online platforms regarding illegal content, disinformation and other societal risks. It defines a globally leading regulatory framework for the responsibility of online platforms such as social media services and online marketplaces, or for search engines.
Their so-called documentation leads, rather than to a detailed, serious analysis of “disinformation” making the case of suppression of EU citizens’ free speech, but instead leads to a rather 1980s tacky looking blogger-style website that talks about “pro-Kremlin disinformation” using vague, hyperbolic terms whilst begging the viewer to subscribe.
Apparently, the EU cannot cite any examples of EU-originating ‘disinformation’, and has to cite the examples of a country outside of their jurisdiction as the basis for censoring EU residents back at home.
The website remarks it has nothing to do with social media, but instead spying on what non-EU Russian media outlets are doing, with obvious out-of-bounds mission creep occurring in 2019 to monitor the ‘Southern’ part of the EU. Apparently the North is immune to this ‘disinformation’?
EUvsDisinfo identifies, compiles, and exposes disinformation cases originating in pro-Kremlin media that are spread across the EU and Eastern Partnership countries. As of 2019, our monitoring capabilities also uncover disinformation spread in the Western Balkans and the EU’s Southern neighbourhood.
Among the so-called “Russian” disinformation they’re policing includes Italian, Swiss and, oddly, American information. No doubt other non-Russian countries. Something the “EC Spokesperson” failed to mention.
It’s odd why a clearly military outfit’s work is being used to justify the suppression of EU residents speech. Will they also punish EU residents for any Russian crimes?
Here’s one of particular interest they claim is supposedly false:
“The World Economic Forum aims to reduce the human population”. Their insightful ‘rebuttal’? The regurgitation of the phrase “conspiracy theory” and the use of the phrase ‘so-called’.
They also literally lie through their teeth and falsely proclaim it is presented without evidence (despite not actually examining any real world claims and they’re the ones without evidence).
Their piece literally declares the line:
[…] a conspiracy theory about “the Great Reset”, the so-called global plan to change the world in interest of “economic elites” […]
Whilst in the same breath confirming the WEF is an economic forum. Thus full of “economic elites” they put in “scare quotes” (we’re using it to mean a literal quotation of their own garbage).
It’s not a “so-called” Reset plan that is “without evidence”, StratCom. You can literally find the WEF admitting to it publicly with an extremely easy search:
Either this means StratCom are extremely inept and should be all fired for being unable to do basic factual research (doubtful, given they seem to be able to find articles easy enough)…
…or they’re maliciously spreading lies, meaning the European Commission are the ones spreading disinformation and are literally trying to cover-up the WEF’s scheming, which thus shows the European Commission intend to suppress the free speech of EU citizens on malicious, selfish grounds.
No wonder they wanted to be identified just as a “European Commission Spokesperson”, probably out of a sense of shame.
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Also, they either think we're dumb or they're just laughing in our faces, since they know as well as we do that a single 5-second internet search will immediately turn up info on the WEF Grest Reset. So who do they think they are kidding?