Justice Min Varga met Thierry Breton, the EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, to discuss the Hungarian govt's work on the transparency of tech giants.
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It didnât take long for Big Tech to ban Donald Trump from Twitter and Facebook whilst Amazon completely shut down Parler, killing millions of Conservative voices.
Now Conservative, euro-sceptic Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is fearful that Big Tech will silence and censor him and his supporters in the run up to Hungaryâs general election next year.
According to the Dailymail, Orban is taking steps to protect free speech and democracy in Hungary. His Government has just announced a âdigital freedomâ fight against US tech giants.
We all have to be prepared for such a situation,’ Gabor Kubatov, a vice-chairman of Orban’s ruling party Fidesz, said referring to the Trump account bans.
The Hungarian government is the latest to call for US internet giants to face more regulation.
Hungary has launched a digital freedom fight against US tech giants like Facebook and Twitter, whom it accuses of censorship.
Hungary is also concerned about possible intervention
in next year s parliamentary election.
Facebook is Hungary s most popular site, with user numbers exceeding 5.4 million in 2020, out of a population of 9.8 million.
Hungary has launched a so-called digital freedom fight against US tech giants like Facebook and Twitter, who it accuses of censorship and suspects could intervene in next year s parliamentary election.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who will seek re-election, was a staunch supporter of former US president Donald Trump whose social media accounts were shut after the Capitol invasion in Washington January 6.
Vladimir Putin today sounded a warning about the influence of global tech giants which he said were competing with national governments, after Russia told internet firms to take down posts that had fuelled Alexei Navalny-inspired protests.
Putin told the virtual Davos summit that tech companies were not just economic giants. in some areas they are already de facto competing with the state . We just saw it all in the United States, he added, referring to the Capitol riot incited by Donald Trump which led to the then-president being banned from Twitter - a move which has caused disquiet in several European countries.