🇬🇧🇪🇺🇫🇷 France and the EU set a precedent last year during a wave of race riots after the death of an Algerian criminal at the hands of French cops. | CIG #commentary

French politician and EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, pushed for and spearheaded the Digital Services Act (DSA), the EU's "groundbreaking" social media regulations. He argued at the time that social media was allowing migrants and French nationalists to organise and cause more trouble for France and the EU and actively threated social media companies with fines if they do not take down posts from their websites.

Breton even launched a probe into X (Twitter) for allowing "illegal content" and "misinformation" on its platform. In the end, the French government did indeed begin to heavily censor both Twitter and Snapchat, widely used by rioters and nationalists alike, which led to fewer videos and images coming from France but the return to the uneasy peace was credited by most observers and some police officers not to the efforts of the French authorities but to the migrants themselves who decided to stop rioting because their drug trafficking and selling operations were beginning to hurt and they were losing an important revenue stream.

The appetite of the EU for censorship is not satisfied. In May of 2024, the EU Commissioner for Values & Transparency was seething at the fact that Telegram is under the threshold of the DSA, because, Telegram, in the EU, has 42 million users while the DSA sets a limit of 45 million users for the app to fall under its dispositions. A month later, the EU received a massive blow to its draconian censorship plans when EU members couldn't agree how far this censorship should go and the plan was scrapped.

The UK being smaller in size than the EU means it has less leverage and power to censor social media and salvage its image and this state of affairs has sent its government into a frenzy, scrambling to punish anyone it can under every possible pretext as its credibility and trust in its institutions collapse with two tier policing becoming ever more clearer.

Germany too has been employing heavy censorship on social media for a few years already, which became very apparent with the "Auslander Raus" (Foreigners out!) music videos from last May-June and promised to prosecute anyone that was caught singing.

Now it seems it will become standard practice for countries in the Western world to shut down social media sites and prosecute those users that post "illegal content" in the name of "keeping communities safe" when, in reality, liberal politicians are making last ditch efforts to keep race relations manageable and friendly enough so that their multicultural societies don't collapse in full fledged civil war and anarchy.

The instability and violence seen rising across Europe will not end until every non-white individual is kicked out of this continent. Governments, politicians, judges, policemen, journalists will not step in to protect Europeans in their own countries so it remains up to the people to fight for their interests and lives.

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