“Expansion of the Brussels censorship apparatus to WhatsApp is unacceptable attack on Achilles’ heel of our democracy!”

As “Bloomberg” reports and EU Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier confirms, an examination of the EU Commission is currently underway, according to which the “WhatsApp” trade fair service with its new classification as “very large online platform” (VLOP) will soon be on the stricter rules of the “Digital Services Act” (DSA) must hold. FPÖ European Member Petra Steger sees this as an unacceptable expansion of the Brussels censual apparatus: “Although the US Vice President JD Vance only read the Levites to the left-global EU elites a few days ago at the Munich Security Conference, Leyen and Co. Completely unimpressed as a moral thought police and are targeting more and more platforms. The oppression of unpleasant opinions under the guise of the fight against disinformation is heading to a new climax. The free word as an Achilles’ heel of our democracy must therefore be defended more than ever against the centralistic censors from Brussels. For example, by the ‘Fortress of Freedom’, which is designed by the FPÖ in its election program, which represents a guarantee for the preservation of freedom of expression! ”

“But also the letter to the EU Commission President of the Leyen, recently written off by the Green Vice Chancellor Kogler, provides the EU’s control and censor fantasies and even prick them. Because Kogler calls for the consistent implementation of the ‘Digital Services Act’ at all levels and thus seriously believes to make a contribution to Islamist terror. In truth, however, he only exposes himself as a compliant vicarious agent, which apparently has no idea about real security policy. Otherwise, he and his party had to support the liberal paradigm shift in asylum and migration policy, including a consistent immigration stop, instead of standing in the way of it by all means, ”said Steger.

“However, it must be emphasized that the ÖVP in the government negotiations was also not willing to resist the ‘Digital Services Act’ or even to implement a prohibition law for political Islam for years,” criticized the freedom of EU MPs Petra Steger also the ÖVP.