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As journalists appeared before the Loni Border Police Station (Uttar Pradeshâs Ghaziabad district) to make statements over whether or not they were guilty of a communally motivated crime by reporting/tweeting on that ugly assault on a 72-year-old Muslim, two aspects jumped out of the page for me.
First, the Ghaziabad Police themselves do not seem to have made any credible effort to establish whether this was a hate crime or not. As far as I know, we only have the statements of the miscreants that deny the charge. Two, and more important, the promises Union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar made while introducing the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, in February this year â that the government welcomes criticism a
https://www.afinalwarning.com/495217.html (Natural News) A leading Hungarian politician in the ruling conservative and nationalist Fidesz Party wants to confront big tech’s censorship by proposing a law that will rein in the power of social media giants like Facebook and Twitter.
Hungarian Minister of Justice Judit Varga said Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who also serves as the leader of Fidesz, does not tolerate the attacks made by big tech companies against free speech.
To this end, Varga announced that the country will follow neighboring Poland in punishing social media companies that would try to censor conservative voices on the internet.
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Hungary follows Poland in taking on Big Tech ‘censors’
Viktor Orban’s ministers fight social media platforms over ‘limits on Christian, conservative, rightwing opinions’
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3 Feb 2021 • 3 min read
Hungary and Poland intend to take measures against social media companies to fight what they believe is bias against conservatives.
Judit Varga, Hungary’s justice minister, announced last week in the wake of former US president Donald Trump’s permanent expulsion from Facebook and Twitter that the hardline government of premier Viktor Orban would not tolerate intrusions on free speech. Earlier in January, Poland’s conservative-nationalist administration proposed legislation that would make it possible for social media companies to be fined for removing posts that do not break Polish law.