Fascism returning to Europe, this time packaged as fairness, justice & equality.
The EU Commission and three large US technology companies (Facebook, Google and Microsoft) have just signed
an agreement on policing and eradicating so-called “hate speech” – under, you probably guessed it, the pretext of “fighting terrorism”.
Terrorism has become a catch-all very similar to “climate change”. Just as there is apparently no ill in this world that cannot somehow be traced to the latter (global warming is
responsible for such diverse evils as heroin addiction, the rise of ISIS, a lack of red-haired people, bear attacks in Japan, collapsing gingerbread houses in Sweden and even global
cooling) – there are seemingly no civil liberties that cannot be done away with at the stroke of a pen in order to “fight terrorism”.
You won’t be surprised to learn that there has been no public consultation, parliamentary debate or vote on this agreement. It has simply sprung into being overnight. After all, who could
possibly be against it? No-one is in favor of hate or terrorism, and since the “code of conduct” agreement is “voluntary” and doesn’t constitute legislation, the EU bureaucrats decided no debate was necessary.
To paraphrase Humpty Dumpty, hate speech means just what those in power choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”
Who Decides What Constitutes Hate Speech?
Brigitte Bardot – has five convictions for “hate speech” to her name by now !
http://www.economist.com/news/leade...rowing-tighter-it-time-speak-out-under-attack