by Will Jones, Daily Sceptic:
G20 ministers met in Brazil last week to discuss “misinformation”, just as the country ramps up the censorship in an escalating ‘war’ with Elon Musk’s X. Reclaim the Net has the story.
It took no time for G20 to show which side it’s taking in the battle between a Government given to online censorship and in clear need of controlling the political and media narratives, versus a major social platform that has broken ranks with its peers as an obedient executioner of censorship, including on behalf of various governments.
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G20 ministers who converged on Maceio in northern Brazil late last week didn’t quite spell all this out (does anybody speak clearly anymore? The higher, the fewer, as they say).
But, the writing is clearly on the wall: a statement issued on Friday is chock-full of words such as “misinformation,” AI (and coming up with new regulation around this) and digital platforms’ “accountability”.
There is even talk of the need for online platforms to place themselves “in line with relevant policies and applicable legal frameworks”.
Was this written by Brazil’s Government, or by G20, some might wonder, half-amused? However, the story is not amusing – one of the persistent arguments coming out of X is that the seemingly incessant flow of censorship demands is in fact breaking Brazil’s own Constitution and applicable law.
