A European politician with an anti-free speech track record has new, scarier propaganda to justify crushing speech.
European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency Vera Jourová previously touted European Union (EU) censorship legislation at Davos 2023, and this year she doubled down on her anti-free speech stance. “Disinformation is a security threat,” Jourová announced during a panel at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Davos 2024 conference.
Jourová continued by trying to associate the so-called “threat” of disinformation — which has typically indicated any speech that offends leftists — with Russian propaganda. “Maybe not many noticed, but it was part of the Russian military doctrine, that they will start information war. And we are in it now, and disinformation is a very powerful tool,” she claimed.
She then explained how EU officials…
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