Before Corona, I would have really welcomed this announcement. But to be honest, when someone says that the project will be "based on European values," I think it's stillborn.
Who is defining those "European values"? Is it the European Commission?
As a liberal person who still dreams of mature citizens who form their own opinions well-informed from a rich debate, I now see the "European values" quite critically.
In Germany - if you criticize the Corona measures you are called a Nazi, if you criticize the Ukraine war you are a Russian troll. Are those then the "European values"?
The European Commission has already established some projects to weight the information according to its will (SocialTruth, PROVENANCE, EUNOMIA, etc.).
When a government agency talks about truth, then all the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
When governments speak of disinformation, it is usually only in the sense that the information does not correspond to their interests. I had to learn that the so-called fact checkers don't check facts, they just sell a counter opinion as a "fact".
So for a European search engine, a filter is then placed upstream that filters out all disinformation?
In the past, that was called censorship. Today, it's more like citizen service.
Who is defining those "European values"? Is it the European Commission?
As a liberal person who still dreams of mature citizens who form their own opinions well-informed from a rich debate, I now see the "European values" quite critically.
In Germany - if you criticize the Corona measures you are called a Nazi, if you criticize the Ukraine war you are a Russian troll. Are those then the "European values"?
The European Commission has already established some projects to weight the information according to its will (SocialTruth, PROVENANCE, EUNOMIA, etc.).
When a government agency talks about truth, then all the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
When governments speak of disinformation, it is usually only in the sense that the information does not correspond to their interests. I had to learn that the so-called fact checkers don't check facts, they just sell a counter opinion as a "fact".
So for a European search engine, a filter is then placed upstream that filters out all disinformation?
In the past, that was called censorship. Today, it's more like citizen service.