The founder of the social network Telegram, Pawel Durov, was arrested in France because he defied the EU’s censorship orders. He is accused of encouraging drug trafficking, terrorism and child abuse by refusing to censor. “Measured by these bizarre standards, the responsible politicians who have allowed millions of people from Afghanistan, Syria and other Islamist strongholds into Europe unchecked since 2015 should have long since been imprisoned for abetting terrorism,” reacted the EU spokeswoman for the Freedom Parliamentary Club and EU MP Petra Steger on the recent escalation of censorship.
“After the EU Commission is said to have offered Elon Musk a dirty deal – voluntary censorship or high fines for his social media X – France is apparently going even further. The ‘deal’ there is: censorship or prison,” said Steger. After Durov left Russia in 2014 to escape the surveillance fantasies of the Putin regime, the surveillance and censorship madness of the self-proclaimed democrats in Macron’s France is now his downfall.
“The events clearly follow the mandate of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, where she described the fight against alleged disinformation as the greatest challenge of our time. Of course, this means any kind of information that contradicts the agenda of those in power,” said Steger. This is intended to ensure that the population continues to acknowledge without objection the catastrophic consequences of the misguided policies of the last few years and decades, which are particularly evident in migrant violence and terrorism.
“What happens when that is no longer the case is what we are currently seeing in Great Britain, where hundreds of people are being fast-tracked to prison for ridiculous offenses – mostly on social media – because they are protesting against increasingly deadly migrant violence. This is so important to the British government that it wants to release criminals already in custody earlier and postpone trials that could result in prison sentences. So the prisons are increasingly filling up with political prisoners instead of criminals. “We only know this from totalitarian states,” warned Steger.
“Fabulous terms like ‘disinformation’ or ‘hate speech’ are the instruments used to establish brutal surveillance of the Internet, including censorship of unpleasant opinions. The ‘Fortress of Freedom’ conceived by the FPÖ in its election program is, however, the guarantee for the preservation of freedom of expression and the fight against any form of censorship. “Under Herbert Kickl as People’s Chancellor, Austria will put up massive resistance at the EU level against both the existing censorship laws such as the ‘Digital Services Act’ and against their tightening,” promised the EU MP.
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