British MPs belonging to the ruling Labour Party are leaving the X platform in protest of freedom of speech.
According to a report from The Guardian, which itself is waging an aggressive campaign against the free speech policy implemented by Elon Musk, have denounced the platform as “a megaphone for foreign adversaries and far-right fringe groups”.
The report stated:
Over the weekend, newly elected MPs took to WhatsApp groups to raise growing concerns about the role X played in the spread of misinformation amid the far-right-led riots in parts of England and Northern Ireland.
Two Labour MPs are known to have told colleagues they were leaving the platform. One of them, Noah Law, has disabled his account. Other MPs who still use X have begun examining alternatives, including Threads, which is owned by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and the open-source platform Bluesky.
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Over the weekend, Jess Phillips, a Home Office minister who has more than 700,000 followers on X, said she wanted to scale back her use of the platform it had become a “bit despotic” and was “a place of misery now”.
A government minister also told the Guardian they had reduced their posts on X over the summer and that Musk’s actions had made them “very reluctant to return”.
The low-scale boycott comes just days after widespread protests took place across the country, with leading politicians blaming Elon Musk for the unrest.
Musk, meanwhile, has responded with a series of criticisms against Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who he has accused of imposing a draconian crackdown on protesters who are concerned about mass immigration.
The billionaire businessman has also accused Starmer of overseeing a “two-tier” policing system in which native Brits are treated far more harshly than Muslims and other minority groups.
Shouldn’t you be concerned about attacks on *all* communities?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 5, 2024
Amid the chaos, Labour politicians and their friends in the left-wing media have repeatedly threatened to start censoring social media platforms and have even threatened to prosecute Elon Musk.
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‘Attack on our freedoms’: Government’s revised online misinformation bill slammed as ‘chilling assault’ on free speech
Labor’s new online misinformation bill has been slammed as a “chilling assault” on freedom of speech, with critics claiming the government’s definition of “serious harm” could capture “any difference of opinion”.
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New proposed laws targeting online misinformation have been slammed as a “chilling assault” on the freedom of speech of Australians, with critics claiming the laws could capture “any difference of opinion”.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland introduced the legislation to Parliament on Thursday, claiming misinformation and disinformation pose a “serious threat” to Australian’s “safety and wellbeing” as well as “our democracy, society and economy”.
The Albanese government was forced to abandon a previous draft version of the laws after they were widely condemned by everyone from media organisations and tech companies to civil liberties groups and even the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Minister Rowland said the government had listened to the feedback and the new legislation had been revised to “carefully balance the public interest in combatting seriously harmful misinformation and disinformation with the freedom of expression that is so fundamental to our democracy”.
But critics are already lining up to attack the bill, with the Institute of Public Affairs describing the legislation as “the single biggest attack on freedom of speech in Australia’s peacetime history”.
“Misinformation legislation introduced into federal parliament today represents a chilling assault on every Australian’s right to free speech. The new Bill broadens provisions to censor speech, which even the government’s fatally flawed first draft did not include,” said John Storey, the Director of Law and Policy at the IPA.
Free Speech Union of Australia also slammed the legislation, telling SkyNews.com.au the legislation was an “attack on our freedoms”.
“Despite the outpouring of public concern last time around, the Government has still failed to address the key issues with it,” Free Speech Union of Australia Co-Director Dr Reuben Kirkham said.
Like the previous draft, the new laws would empower the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to impose massive fines – up to 5 per cent of global revenue – on social media platforms that fail to adequately crack down on misinformation and disinformation on their platforms.
https://crazzfiles.com/attack-on-our-freedoms-governments-revised-online-misinformation-bill-slammed-as-chilling-assault-on-free-speech/
UPDATE >
Information on the many topics relevant in this corrupted world is what I’ve been posting on X – I had only been on 12 days and another user complained and I am banned.
OMG !!! That’s it ! 13 September, 2024.
Your account is suspended
After careful review, we determined your account broke the X Rules.
(how ? – because someone complained about my Information Posts !!! I don’t understand ! ).
Your account is permanently in read-only mode, which means you can’t post, Repost, or Like content.
(*NOTE > I can’t even read any posts, as I can only see ‘ Your account is suspended*)
You won’t be able to create new accounts.
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I HAVE APPEALED TWICE ALREADY ! Another User complained about my Information Posts and I am BANNED !
Aren’t we all supposed to be fighting against Censorship and Mr. Musk X leading the way ? !
This is worse than catastrophic for Freedom of Speech Globally when this happens as a result of complaint from another User ? Outrageous.
Same thing happened in April 2024 on Facebook – my page permanently disabled.
FURTHER INFORMATION ON DISGRACEFUL CENSORSHIP OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF OPINION AND INFORMATION SHARING AND THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD HAVING THEIR ‘VOICES STRANGLED BY CENSORSHIP’ – See >
2 May, 2023
Twitter fulfilling more government censorship requests under Musk
Twitter has complied at least partially with 98.8 percent of takedown requests under Elon Musk’s ownership, data shows.
Corynne McSherry, legal director of the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the development was cause for concern.
“As Twitter’s own previous reports and actions show, government takedown requests are frequently legally flawed or improper, and even lawful requests may conflict with international freedom of expression principles,” McSherry told Al Jazeera.
“And while many have abandoned Twitter, it remains a powerful and important platform internationally, particularly for journalists and human rights defenders,” she said. “Further, if Twitter is complying so quickly with takedown requests, one has to wonder what other government requests Twitter is fulfilling without protest.”
The rise in government takedowns follows a series of shakeups Musk has undertaken at Twitter, including slashing the workforce by 80 percent to around 1,500 employees and axing the company’s entire human rights team.
Twitter has also shuttered many of its regional offices, including in India, where the administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has introduced sweeping measures to regulate the internet and social media.
Twitter has not published an internal transparency report on government removal requests since July, and data has instead been collected through automatic submissions from Twitter to the Lumen database.
Jyoti Panday, a researcher at the Internet Governance Project at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said business concerns at Twitter appeared to be taking precedence over human rights.
“Elon came in and disbanded a lot of crucial teams that were spread out across the world,” Panday told Al Jazeera.
“Users have the right to be heard, and they are approaching the platform to say, ‘Can you put back our content? We can prove it’s not illegal and not unlawful content. I’m well within my rights,’ but those mechanisms that would be in place to judge … have been completely disbanded, and there’s no response she said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfilling-more-government-censorship-requests-under-musk