The EU Ministry of Truth (Narrative Control & Tyranny)
โThe EU loves talking about freedom.
Just look at one of its recent press releases, launching something called the European Democracy Shield, which promises to protect everything from โfree peopleโ to โfree electionsโ to โ this being Brussels โ โa vibrant civil societyโ.
All admirable stuff, perhaps, at least on paper.
In reality, though, the Democracy Shield is just the latest vision inย unfreedom: suppressing dissent and policing speech under the pretext of defending democracy from foreign interference and fake news.โ
โSeen in this context, the Democracy Shield appears like nothing more than a tool to further institutionalise a regime of managed speech and narrative control. Its goal is to police online speech according to vague, politically charged definitions of โdisinformationโ; to compel platforms, journalists, academics and citizens alike to conform to a narrow, Commission-approved worldview; and to silence dissent in the name of โfighting foreign interferenceโ. Yet it is becoming increasingly clear that the real war on democracy isnโt being waged by Moscow or Beijing; it is being waged from within, by the very institutions claiming to defend it.โ
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eus-new-censorship-machine