DEATH OF FREE SPEECH: EU blasted for ‘Orwellian’ crackdown on online criticism…”UKIP MEP Janice Atkinson blasted: “It’s Orwellian. Anyone who has read 1984 sees it’s very re-enactment live.”

Tuesday, May 31, 2016
By Paul Martin

EUROPE’S elite have announced a sweeping crackdown on freedom of speech online which has been branded “lamentable and Orwellian” by pro-democracy campaigners.

By NICK GUTTERIDGE
Express.co.uk
Tue, May 31, 2016

Brussels bureaucrats are launching a flagship blitz on what they term ‘hate speech’ on social networks such as Facebook – but critics warn it includes anything deemed contrary to the federalist project’s aims.

It is to draft in an army of pro-EU censors who will have draconian powers to remove any social media postings transgressing the “current societal developments” promoted by the 28-nation bloc.

Today the EU has signed a deal with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft designed to curb the use of hate speech online that has been blasted as “ill considered” by the very people who helped draw it up.

Democracy campaigners have warned that the definition of ‘hate speech’ is so vague the EU could end up with the power to get postings critical of the Brussels project removed from the Internet forever in what constitutes a “frightening path to totalitarianism”.

UKIP MEP Janice Atkinson blasted: “It’s Orwellian. Anyone who has read 1984 sees it’s very re-enactment live.”

Under the terms of the deal, cooked up by unelected bureaucrats at Jean-Claude Juncker’s EU Commission, the web giants are required to crack down on what Brussels deems to be ‘hate speech’ by “promoting independent counter-narratives” set by EU chiefs.

The internet firms must work with Commission officials to build a “network” of “trusted reporters” who can flag up instances of ‘hate speech’ to be removed within 24 hours.

They have also pledged to “support educational programs”, the content of which is likely to be determined by Brussels chiefs, which will be aimed at those accused of posting hate speech online.

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