EUROPE: MP warns ‘EU does not want free speech’ after Elon Musk Twitter takeover

Agenda-driven globalists and Leftists who want control over the public are apoplectic over Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover; so now the gloves are coming off.

Flemish Member of European Parliament Tom Vandendriessche notes: “The EU does not want free speech…That is dangerous for their system.” And threats are in order. Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market, warned Elon Musk to “make sure the platform continues censoring content or face the wrath of Brussels.”

Yet Twitter’s agenda-driven proponents of cancel culture continue to pretend to care about public “harm” and “responsibility“….

Regardless of ownership, all social media platforms must be responsible,” said a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “That includes protecting users from harm on their sites….

An example of how glaringly dishonest and activist Twitter (and its supporters) had become was its banning of Donald Trump while permitting the Taliban.

Elon Musk Twitter Takeover: ‘EU Does Not Want Free Speech’ Warns Euro MP

by Peter Caddle, Breitbart, May 1, 2022:

A Member of the European Parliament has warned the EU “does not want free speech” after a European Commission official threatened Elon Musk over his takeover of Twitter.

Tom Vandendriessche, an EU-level representative for the Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang party, has said that the European Union “does not want free speech”, accusing the supranational bloc of wanting to “outsource” censorship to Big Tech corporations.

Vandendriessche’s comments come shortly after one of the European Union’s unelected commissioners, Thierry Breton, issued threats to Elon Musk regarding his Twitter takeover, telling the pro-free speech entrepreneur that he must make sure the platform continues censoring content or face the wrath of Brussels.

In a statement provided by the MEP to Breitbart, Vandendriessche argued that Musk’s publicly-expressed goals for the Twitter microblogging platform are positive and in line with what he has argued for personally in the past — and that the European Union is threatening democracy through its harsh regime of outsourced censorship.

“The EU does not want free speech,” the Flemish MEP said. “That is dangerous for their system.”

“They therefore want to ‘outsource’ censorship to private players,” he continued. “They call that ‘taking responsibility’, but it is nothing less than flat censorship.”…

Vandendriessche’s statement on the Elon Musk takeover runs contrary to the views expressed by Europe’s ruling technocrats, with the bloc’s tsar for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, demanding that Musk keeps Twitter’s regime of censorship in place.

“Elon, there are rules,” the EU bigwig said, before referencing issues around so-called “hate speech” and moderation. “You are welcome but these are our rules. It’s not your rules which will apply here,” he warned.

“If [Twitter] does not comply with our law, there are sanctions — 6 per cent of the revenue and, if they continue, banned from operating in Europe,” he went on to threaten….

“Regardless of ownership, all social media platforms must be responsible,” said a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“That includes protecting users from harm on their sites,” the spokesman continued. “It is too early to say what — if any — changes will be made to how Twitter operates.”…

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