“Hate speech”: the perennial problem is political, not legal - UK Column News - 2nd December 2022

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-2nd-december-2022

- EU foreign affairs supremo Josep Borrell reports to G20 on his “diplomatic speed-dating” on the “global battle of narratives”: “For now, we are not winning”
- Tech HQ: Twitter will be banned in Europe unless it abides by EU’s Digital Services Act
This tendency has already started voluntarily, with Rumble removing itself from France rather than submit to censorship
- In the event of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war or a pandemic, the Commission will be empowered to require Big Tech firms to quickly adapt their services to deal with potential disinformation.
- European Digital Media Observatory: The EDMO network expands to all EU Member States through six new hubs—no EU country must be beyond the reach of punitive anti-dissidence measures such as freezing bank accounts
- Mike Robinson commentary: We must be building a much better type of society with all this control of narratives(!)
- Daily Telegraph: Britain is sleepwalking into censorship and we're running out of time to stop it— opinion piece warning that Britain will become one of the world’s most draconian countries by dint of the “disinformation terrorism” label
- Mike Robinson commentary: The Bill will still affect even people running a small online forum, and the Government is insisting on pushier platforms
- Patrick Henningsen commentary: Twitter has just stopped policing “Covid misinformation” but certain buzzphrases, like “preventing homophobic speech”, are so broad-brush as to allow anything to be construed as offensive—and Musk’s new management has only removed the Covid straitjacket, not the others
- New section after Section 135 requires Ofcom to publish a report on the impact of the regulatory framework—thus requiring platforms to protect the “right” news sources from being too bothered
- New section after Section 152, ensuring that holders of certain licences are exempt from charges of false communications—that would be approved sources as long as they stay within the trammels set for them
- And just for the laughs: Centre for Information Resilience, a yah-boo narrative tank
- Fox News: White House’s former ‘disinformation czar’ Nina Jankowicz registers as a foreign agent—the Centre for Information Resilience is the British NGO for whom Jankowicz (Biden's Mary Poppins) now works