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Musk given 24 hours to address graphic images of Hamas attacks
(www.politico.eu)
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That's irking to limiting press freedom if gruesome photos and videos are forbidden. That ain't good, EU!
Edit: for all the dumb fucks downvoting me... Where the fuck did I say anything about fake news and propaganda?
Anyone has an idea what turned the American people against the Vietnam war? Exactly. Horrible videos and photos. That's how the world learns about immoral horrors. And Nazi concentrationi camp photos in all the Nazi German newspapers early on would have changed the course of ww2. But there weren't any published photos...
2nd Edit: important context I missed: from https://feddit.nl/comment/3638132
The gruesome images part is only said by Politico. Read the original open letter. The EU is not complaining about the images hurting their sensibilities by being too gruesome, but that they are either from different conflicts or straight up from video games.
The EU is not offended by the gruesomeness of the images, but by the fact that they are lies. Politico is reporting inaccurately at best on this.
Yes, indeed, thank you. I edited my reply to update that fact.
"removing my propaganda is against my freedumb of speech!!!"
The EU isn't saying that violent photos are to be removed. The letter is asking for removal of disinformation and transparency into what gets removed.
Politico seems to have made up the part you're complaining about.
Yes, thanks, by now I've been informed of that. The idea was weird to begin with 👍
We don't have a 'free press'. We have a 'private press'. We have all the news they want to print. Musk, for example, has suppressed and banned, and blocked all over ex-twitter.
Talking about spreading misinformation and media containing violence.
Yeah, clickbait headlines :(
No I did not
Let me just say this... A real man (or woman) admits when they're wrong.
You did so. My upvote is going to do nothing for the ratio, but I saw you.
Additional evidence changed your opinion, and that you didn't replace your post - you added additional information that changed your mind
That's the standards I hold myself to, and for that you have my respect
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Get out of here with your silly US-centric idea of "absolute free speech". Pretty much every civilized country in the world has boundaries to what is considered acceptable.
And even the US does (though they are fewer than elsewhere, granted).
But for some reason the US has produced this myth that absolute freedom of speech (which it doesn't have) somehow is the best possible choice (which it isn't).
The US isn't the world.
I'm not talking about the US....? 🙄