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Censorship in the EU: Hate Speech Laws Are Suffocating Free Speech

Europeans are increasingly afraid to speak their minds.

Germany's NetzDG was also the model for the EU's infamous Digital Services Act (DSA), adopted in 2022, which is the basis for pressuring X, Facebook and others to censor users in the form of 'content moderation'. Otherwise, heavy fines (of up to 6% of their global turnover) will be imposed on companies that refuse to censor content the EU doesn't like, such as criticism of power over migration, climate alarmism, health, 'minorities', etc. In his recent Davos statement, Spain's socialist Prime Minister P. Sanchez called for an end to anonymity on social media in order to combat "hate speech" more effectively:

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