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MELTDOWN IN MUNICH JD VANCE VS CENSORSHIP

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Germany has become a hotbed for censorship in recent months in a response to the rise of the far right party, by criminalizing such commonplace actions as insults and reposting false statements. Hear newly elected Vice President JD Vance’s remarks during the Munich Security Conference declaring censorship is one of the biggest threats to democracy in the EU, setting off a political firestorm, including here in the US where journalist Margaret Brennan of CBS implied that free speech is what led to the uprising of the Nazi party.

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0:00.0

Last week I started to touch on this, but it's really broke into runaway speeds at this point.

0:04.9

So there's a global fight right now.

0:06.7

There's two factions forming for pro-speech and anti-speech, speech censorship,

0:11.4

or basically the free, the ability for people to speak anything they want no matter what their government thinks.

0:20.5

And right now in

0:21.6

Germany, they are going to the opposite side of that coin. They are the country of censorship,

0:28.4

and they are also heading out this kind of coalition with the UK, their Online Safety Act,

0:34.9

also Australia is in there fighting for fighting for for for for

0:38.5

speech but we have Germany there they have a political party which is a FD that's an

0:44.0

alternative for Germany and this political party is really surging in the polls and on

0:49.7

February 23rd will be the election so this is the headline out of Politico Germany's

0:53.6

far right AFD is soaring can a it ban stop it? So there's actually a legitimate conversation if this can be,

0:59.8

if this party can be banned in Germany. But that's not all because the party talks about things

1:04.3

that a lot of the government doesn't like there, like ending the Ukraine war or maybe slowing

1:09.7

down immigration and basically things that are conversations

1:12.9

in almost every country. And Germany also is as pushing these ideas towards X. This is a conversation

1:21.3

that was put out by X, their community standards. It says Germany submits the highest number

1:26.9

of legal demands for user data to X within the European Union,

1:31.0

with 87% of these requests targeting speech-related offenses.

1:34.9

And then it goes on to say that the X believes these are not legal demands.

1:38.9

They will not do that.

1:39.9

It's, you know, it is an overreach.

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