{"id":6541,"date":"2016-06-03T06:16:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2016-06-13T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T05:20:00","slug":"european-union-declares-war-internet-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/06\/03\/european-union-declares-war-internet-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union Declares War on Internet Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/06\/03\/european-union-declares-war-internet-free-speech\/eu_free_speech\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6542\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6542\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/eu_free_speech.jpg\" alt=\"eu_free_speech\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/eu_free_speech.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/eu_free_speech-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The European Union, in partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft, has unveiled a \u201ccode of conduct\u201d to combat the spread of \u201cillegal hate speech\u201d online in Europe.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>European Union Declares War on Internet Free Speech<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8189\/social-media-censorship\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | June 3, 2016<\/p>\n<p>The European Union, in partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft, has unveiled a \u201ccode of conduct\u201d to combat the spread of \u201cillegal hate speech\u201d online in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of the initiative argue that in the aftermath of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, a crackdown on hate speech is necessary to counter jihadist propaganda online.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents counter that the initiative amounts to an assault on free speech in Europe. They say that the EU\u2019s definition of \u201chate speech\u201d and \u201cincitement to violence\u201d is so vague that it could include virtually anything deemed politically incorrect by European authorities, including criticism of mass migration, Islam or even the European Union itself.<\/p>\n<p>Some Members of the European Parliament have characterized the EU\u2019s code of online conduct \u2014 which requires \u201coffensive\u201d material to be removed from the Internet within 24 hours, and replaced with \u201ccounter-narratives\u201d \u2014 as \u201cOrwellian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8189\/social-media-censorship\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union, in partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft, has unveiled a \u201ccode of conduct\u201d to combat the spread of \u201cillegal hate speech\u201d online in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[129,61],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-union-european-union","tag-european-union-2","tag-free-speech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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