{"id":202847,"date":"2020-02-22T07:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T07:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202847"},"modified":"2020-02-25T08:36:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T08:36:05","slug":"zuckerberg-asks-german-government-for-instructions-on-what-discourse-should-be-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202847","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Asks German Government for Instructions on ‘What Discourse Should Be Allowed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Death of Free Speech?<\/h1>\n

Jonathan Turley \u2013 Russia Insider Feb 22, 2020<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with Angela Merkel. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

I have written for years on the effort of European countries<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to expand their crackdown on free speech globally through restrictions on social media and Internet speech. It appears that Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has relented in what may prove the death knell for free speech in the West. Zuckerberg seems to relent<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in asking governments for regulations stipulating what speech will be permitted on Facebook and other platforms. It is the ultimate victory of France<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Germany<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and England<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in their continuing attack on free expression though hate speech laws and speech regulation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zuckerberg told an assembly of Western leaders Saturday at the Munich Security Conference that \u201cThere should be more guidance and regulation from the states on basically \u2014 take political advertising as an example \u2014 what discourse should be allowed?\u201d He did add: \u201cOr, on the balance of free expression and some things that people call harmful expression, where do you draw the line?\u201d The problem is that his comments were received as accepting that government will now dictate the range of free speech. What is missing is the bright line rule long maintained by the free speech community.<\/span><\/p>\n

As tragically demonstrated in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, speech regulations inevitably expand with time. The desire to silence one\u2019s critics becomes insatiable for both governments and individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zuckerberg is facing great pressure, including from Democratic leaders in the United States, to regulate political speech and he seems to be moving away from the bright-line position against such regulation as a principle. Instead, he is accepting the fluid concept of \u201cbalanced\u201d regulations that has always preceded expanding speech codes and criminalization:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of decisions in these areas that are really just balances between different social values. It\u2019s about coming up with an answer that society feels is legitimate and that they can get behind and understand that you drew the line here on the balance of free expression and safety. It\u2019s not just that there\u2019s one right answer. People need to feel like, \u2018OK, enough people weighed in, and that\u2019s why the answer should be this, and we can get behind that.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Original source Jonathan Turley<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does Zuckerberg\u2019s compliance foreshadow a further crackdown on free discourse on the net?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202849,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202847\/revisions\/202849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}