Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Orwell's Europe - Part I: The European Commission's New, Chilling Censorship Initiative :: Gatestone Institute

In Europe, recently, it was found that a news outlet that had published a speech by US Vice President J.D. Vance has now been accused of journalistic misconduct. - Robert Williams
Revealingly, while Belgium's Press Ethics Council did not trust readers with Vance's speech on the factual lack of freedom of speech in Europe, the Belgian courts had no issues with a magazine column that incited violence against Belgian Jews.
  • On one hand, the public cannot be trusted with information that has not been chewed up and curated for them beforehand, including an unfiltered speech by Vance. 
  • On the other hand, screeds inciting violence against Jews are perfectly acceptable, and all at once, out of the blue -- poof! -- suddenly the Belgian judicial system cares about "freedom of speech" if it is spoken by people whose votes are regarded as "necessary."...
The European Commission, the EU's unelected, untransparent, unaccountable executive arm, with Ursula von der Leyen at its helm, is now repackaging this informal brainwashing into a more organized system to ensure that any dissenting opinions are rooted out...

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