Many have been wondering why the announced Twitter 'amnesty' has not occurred. But the answer is obvious: the European Union vetoed it. The EU now presumes to censor social media 'misinformation' for the whole world.
In what must be an example of peak Twitter hysteria, a German TV channel has compared Elon Musk to Goebbels. Ironically, the channel was founded by Karl Holzamer, who served in Goebbels’s Ministry of Propaganda in WW2.
Could PayPal’s drive against ‘misinformation’ be prompted by pressure from the EU? PayPal isn't a signatory of the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation, but the EU has been lobbying for it to comply nonetheless.
The EU has quietly passed a law that directly subordinates online platforms like Twitter to the Commission’s agenda of "combatting COVID-19 disinformation" and requires them to implement it on pain of ruinous fines.
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