This is just too uncomfortable. After the EU pressured a reset of the Romanian elections, after the ban on LePen running, and so on, it feels like European democracies are set on creating certain outcomes while calling it a defense of democracy. If you’re focused on banning candidates or parties, or on eliminating speech / access to speech, you aren’t a democracy. But you’re also going to cause an escalation in response rather than actually suppressing the people you want to ban.
And given that France arrested Durov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_indictment_of_Pavel...) and is now allegedly offering “assistance” with his case in exchange for cooperation in censorship, this is all getting very messy and looks bad. Curious what the other side of the story is.
And given that France arrested Durov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_indictment_of_Pavel...) and is now allegedly offering “assistance” with his case in exchange for cooperation in censorship, this is all getting very messy and looks bad. Curious what the other side of the story is.