"The EU’s media crackdown: Why redfish is forced to close"
*The EU’s media crackdown: Why redfish is forced to close** * February 22, 2023 Since 2017, redfish has dedicated itself to reporting from the perspective of people around the world who are oppressed by the capitalist system in the Global North and South and all its features: racism, war, imperialism, patriarchy, ecocide and extreme inequality. Looking back, we are immensely proud of all we have accomplished over the past five years but the reality of developments around redfish this year has forced us to make a hard decision: redfish is closing. The relentless campaign of smears by mainstream media, academia and think tanks; social media censorship and now state-sanctioned harassment have made it impossible for us to continue. Here is what happened to us, how we have been used as one test case in the EU’s weaponization of “disinformation” to shut down critical voices, and why what we’ve been through is only the beginning of a crackdown that will impact everyone, including those who have encouraged and cheered the suppression of our work. The recent Twitter Files have rightly brought a lot of attention to how entrenched the US military and intelligence apparatus is at the executive level of social media giants like Twitter, who control the information we have access to. Completely under the radar, however, the political heart of the EU in close collaboration with allied military institutions and those same social media companies, has developed its own strategy complete with a chilling array of tools to crack down on voices critical of the status quo of Western capitalist imperialism. In EU policy circles the threat is described as “undermining the European project”, and questioning the “democratic legitimacy of the representatives of Member States”. That is, in the eyes of the EU’s decision-makers, voices that publicly question the current political and socio-economic order in the West are no longer entitled to international and EU legal protection which covers the right to freedom of expression. On the contrary, we are to be treated as a threat. [...] continua qui: https://redfish.media/blog/the-eus-media-crackdown-why-redfish-is-forced-to-...
Buongiorno, lo **stato di emergenza** è permanente, ciò rende necessario anche applicare la censura alla /disinformazione/, solo per il nostro bene, sia chiaro. Per non parlare, vero, del fatto che ci sono prove schiaccianti che redfish sia una diretta emanazione del governo russo, quindi propaganda comunista (ah no, quello era nel secolo scorso, come si dice adesso "statocanaglista"?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruptly "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it> writes:
*The EU’s media crackdown: Why redfish is forced to close** * February 22, 2023
aggungo alcuni passaggi salienti: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [...] the mainstream media is colluding in this repression by normalizing the use of the buzzword “disinformation” which the EU vaguely defines as “false or misleading information” that “may cause public harm”. The OHCHR [1] has warned that “disinformation” is an extraordinarily elusive concept to define in law, susceptible to providing executive authorities with excessive discretion to determine what is disinformation, what is a mistake, what is truth.” With that, a joint declaration [2] which was co-authored by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression declared that “general prohibitions” on disinformation “are incompatible with international standards for restrictions on freedom of expression…and should be abolished.” Despite these damning warnings, the EU is using disinformation as a pretext, and the Russian bogeyman as the perfect cover, to justify a quasi-militarized crackdown on voices critical of Western governments. [...] Openly colluding with the EU in this crackdown are the big social media companies which the EU calls Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs): Meta, Twitter, Tiktok and Google, as well as the mainstream media, an approved “fact-checking community” (which will be dissected below) and military bodies including the EEAS and NATO. [3] [...] Prominent players in the EU’s approved network of fact-checkers who are given the authority to decide whom we can and cannot access information from are organizations like Spanish state-owned RTVE, DPA which is partially financed by German state-owned media companies, largely French state-financed AFP, state-owned France TV, you get the gist. So, if you report what the mainstream likes, they certify you a journalist, if you report something they don’t like they designate you a threat. [...] Prominent players in the EU’s approved network of fact-checkers [4] who are given the authority to decide whom we can and cannot access information from are organizations like Spanish state-owned RTVE, DPA which is partially financed by German state-owned media companies, largely French state-financed AFP, state-owned France TV, you get the gist. So, if you report what the mainstream likes, they certify you a journalist, if you report something they don’t like they designate you a threat. [...] new laws which give the inherently undemocratic EU Commission the power to declare a “state of emergency”. A chunk of the EU’s gargantuan Digital Services Act which came into effect in October 2022, is dedicated to a “Crisis Response Mechanism” whereby the EU Commission can use crises like the war in Ukraine to impose a state of emergency across the bloc, giving it sweeping powers to repress critical media (si veda [5], n.d.r.). [...] It’s not just in the DSA where we see the militarization of the EU’s discourse around critical media. Apart from the fact that it relies on the EEAS and NATO in formulating its disinformation strategies, militarized language can be found throughout the bloc’s reports and action plans on disinformation, which speak of “information weapons” and disinformation as part of a “hybrid threat alongside radicalization and violent extremism” to European security. This approach to disinformation is analogous to the way the US government has become infamous for invoking “national security” to get away with all manner of crimes at home and abroad. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Per comprendere il nocciolo del bubbone occorre studiare e comparare il concetto di "disinformazione" secondo OHCHR [1] rispetto a quello EU External Action [3], che dice: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Disinformation is understood as verifiably false or misleading information that is created, presented and disseminated for economic gain or to intentionally deceive the public, and may cause public harm. Public harm includes threats to democratic processes as well as to public goods such as Union citizens' health, environment or security. Disinformation does not include inadvertent errors, satire and parody, or clearly identified partisan news and commentary --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Ovviamente tutto quello che ho scritto è una **parodia** Saluti, 380° [...] [1] https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Opinion/A_HRC_44_49_AdvanceEditedVers... [2] https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/6/8/302796.pdf [3] https://www.eeas.europa.eu/sites/default/files/action_plan_against_disinform... [4] https://edmo.eu/fact-checking-community/ [5] https://dsa-observatory.eu/2023/02/21/the-dsas-crisis-approach-crisis-respon... P.S.: era da decenni che non leggevo più il termine "capitalist imperialism", una volta era **di moda** anche in Italia :-O -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.
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