On August 25th and August 26, Sentinel reported that the EU passed the Digital Services Act that applies censorship to any platforms Europeans might see. Nineteen platforms have to conform or be fined a great deal of money or find themselves banned. Google, Facebook, Apple, Instagram, Bing, Google searches, and Twitter are among the mostly US platforms named.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the EU Commission, said it will bring European values to the digital world. The values include censorship. This unelected bureaucrat is authoritarian and claims she is protecting children, society, and democracies. No one would consider this an example of democracy.
Elon Musk wants Twitter to be the platform of the people. It will be hard for him to do.

The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a new set of regulations that would force major internet platforms to tackle the spread of illegal content and other societal risks on their services in the EU—or else risk billions of Euros in fines.
Unfortunately, Joe Biden is president and he will gladly abide by the European dictatorship.
THE UN SPEECH REGULATOR SAID HATE SPEECH LAWS ARE COMING TO THE US
The rules include the broad and vague term, “hate speech,” which the UN regulator – the EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency – Vera Jourova said at the World Economic Forum the US will obey.
Hate speech can mean disagreeing with mutilating children for “gender-affirming care.”
The EU speech regulator recently said the US would soon have hate speech laws.
Only in January did a European Union official predict that the United States would soon institute “illegal hate speech” laws. She made her comments at a Davos “disinformation” panel Tuesday raised some eyebrows online.
Věra Jourová, the vice president for “values and transparency” at the EU’s executive European Commission, indicated to a fellow panelist at the World Economic Forum that such policies were about to cross the ocean.
“What qualifies as hate speech, as illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S.,” she said, directing her comments to fellow panelist Seth Moulton, a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts. “I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law; we need the platforms to simply work with the language and to identify such cases.”
BACK TO THE DIGITAL SERVICES ACT
Hundreds of unelected EU bureaucrats will decide what constitutes disinformation and instruct Big Tech firms to censor it, reports Zero Hedge.
They will appoint “trusted flaggers” to decide what people are allowed to see and say. If you think any of these people are democratic, you’d be misinformed. These are authoritarians and the majority of people in Europe probably don’t want this any more than we do.
Canada recently passed an act forcing media companies to pay off and collude with big media companies. It shuts down free speech. Canada said America will have the same law soon. Indeed, Democrats do have a nearly identical law sitting on a shelf. They could be waiting for a complete takeover of power to implement it.
They’re superceding the US Constitution. It’s a crutch so Facebook and the other totalitarians pretend they have no choice but to censor.
RESIST!
The internet is a WHITE, Christian, AMERICAN invention, you damn WELL know what that means worldwide….
Normally SCOTUS would stop this dead, but who knows these days. One ray of hope is the judge in the Maryland case who cited the 1st Amendment noting “Congress shall make No law….”. That is pretty damn explicit.
The goal is to reduce to almost nothing what conservatives can say.
Pardon my arrogance but over 10 years ago I began saying that eventually the left would make it pretty much illegal to be a conservative or not be a leftist.
And everything indicates we are heading in that direction.
Big tech, to an extent, did that already
Matt Taibi and that other journalist who s name I cannot remember now both proved, evidence in hand, that Twitter helped by the ( democrat controlled ) FBI censored MILLIONS of people who leaned right.
Hell! Twitter even closed down The President of the USA’s twitter account !!!
If they did not hesitate to do that to Trump, to the President of the most powerful nation on earth, you think they will hesitate to censor little unimportant powerless us ?
And other people have proved that other giants such as Youtube or Google have demonetized many right wing sites. ( they are still doing it right now )
Give them a few years ( and few more stolen elections both in the USA and Canada) and it will be almost illegal to be right wing.
There is a reason they are doing all those things while repeating a million times a day ( politicians or the media ) that being a conservative and being a white supremacist are the same thing…and is a hair trigger from being the same thing as domestic terrorist.
They are brainwashing the gullible masses into associating right wing with bad very very bad…
and since it is normal to make bad things illegal, the brainwashed public will find it normal that “evil” conservatives who are also white supremacists who might also be terrorists are no longer able to post on the internet.
We do not allow Nazis to post anti semitic material right ?
We conservatives will soon be like Nazis ; not welcome anywhere, not allowed to speak, illegal in many places.
The left are more and more authoritarian and tyrannical everyday.
Leftism and the tyrannical authoritarianism that comes with it are spreading like a virus, it has infected almost every important institution both in North America and Europe,
They all agree on the same diabolical things.
They may fail, we will see, but it is obvious their goal is to make non-leftist opinions, or conservative opinions something as unacceptable as anti semitism , as unacceptable as admiring Hitler.
We are entering an age that will soon be ( 10 years at most ? ) not that different from the Third Reich;
— Censoring dissenting opinions,
— Closing the businesses of those who disagree with the government
—firing or refusing to hire people based on their race ( whites get fired regularly for their non liberal opinions ) while handing jobs, positions to certain races ( many universities favor colored students even if they are less qualified )
— Imprisoning political opponents.
Et cetera, et cetera …
History is full of examples of authoritarian tyrants, they are not rare, they keep popping up.
We are entering an age of tyranny…it may fail, it may change but I am not very optimistic.
Minutes after I posted my long comment I saw this,
The Lesbian Marxist who runs the American Library Association ( Emily Drabinsky ) said of parents who disagree with her wanting to fill shelves with gay books for CHILDREN full of gay images, that they are, and I quote,
“far right, white supremacist, fascist,” “angry white mob,”
POP QUIZ!
Sit down/be quiet!
One question:
WHAT book titles were being burned in the old Weimar republic?
You should have seen us get bum rushed OUT of corporate enterprise IT after 9/11, “for our safety”….obama sold ICANN and cheney sold blackrock….overseas.
here we are.
Censorship of the internet was tried in the 90’s when I first moved to a city in Queensland. It did not work. The responsible elected officials were voted out of office.
There are many bad things on the net, but the responsibility to censor is individual and for parents of minor children. A public library should only have available in the children’s sections material that the parents of the community deem appropriate.
I think that the way the supreme court has handled the matter in the past was usually fairly well done.
The problem is when government does not want to let adult people have the information the people desire.
We lived in Chicagoland from 1976-1995. There was a Chinese Communist book store in Chicago. It was not censored. In 1986 my son was working on a paper in a high school history class regarding the Korean war. The proprietor was most helpful and pointed us to resources that were not in most history references.
The information was accurate and truthful and it helped my son get an A both because of documented references and giving understanding as to why the Chinese, in a sense unexpectedly entered the war.
Understanding those things makes it clear why there is war in the Ukraine today and that Russia feels a buffer state is critical to its survival (remember the Nazi invasion of of WW2, now known by the Russians as the Great Patriotic War.
Those who do not study historical truths are condemned to repeat historical errors.