Free speech is good, and Europe should probably be developing their own platforms. Make small tech great again.
What about that hot-topic in the GOP tent? Electoral interference?
//Irish and EU regulators aggressively “censored” social media coverage of Ireland’s 2024 general election and the recent presidential election, a panel of US politicians has claimed in a report.
//The report by the staff on the judiciary committee of the Republican-controlled US Congress alleges “harassment” against tech groups to undermine conservative and populist parties.
//It claims the European Commission and Irish media regulators in Coimisiún na Meán worked with “biased fact-checkers” and “left-wing” non-governmental organisations before the last two Irish elections.
Of course when European regulators do the bare minimum to prevent electoral interference, misinformation, and straight up electoral malfeasance to be propagated in opposition to our media and balance laws, it constitutes bigotry at the expense of the private American interests trying to control them!
Of course this is all a particular coincidence given its the week that French authorities raid X offices in Paris, summoning Musk in a cybercrime probe to determine his complicity in crimes including Holocaust denial and CSAM hosting, generation and distribution.
Tbh Linehan was very lucky he was he was cleared of assaulting a teenage trans activist at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in September, instead getting away with a minor conviction for damaging her phone.
This activist was at the event getting in everyone's faces looking for a reaction, and Linehan was, as usual, hot-headed enough to provide such a reaction.
//"He said ‘go away groomer’, ‘go away you disgusting incel’. He called her a ‘sissy porn-watching scumbag’ … He deliberately whacked the phone out of Ms Brooks’s hand.”
https://bsky.app/profile/alandriscoll.com/post/3lxzkxh6ols26...
To be clear, long before his event, Linehan had persistently called Brooks a "sociopath", "psycho", "domestic terrorist" and "groomer" on X, posting about her dozens of times since at least March of last year. Other claims he makes about the teenage girl include deriding her as “a sociopathic misogynist who harasses women,” and a “dangerous sadist,” and talks about “[sticking] cameras up [her] arse.”
These comments were all made about Brooks when she was underage. Linehan also assaulted her and destroyed her property when she was a minor. Replace the trans component and any reasonable 3rd party would be up in arms, not hiding behind a green account to white-wash their bigotry.
