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US congresmen write Zuckerberg to act against Slovak users of facebook
                                         from Czech alternative web

US congressmen wrote Zuckerberg a letter to take action in Slovakia against supporters of Putin and Russia on Facebook
US Congress decides who should be deleted and blocked on social networks in Slovakia ?

Today, American congressmen are already writing public letters and intervening against the internal affairs of another "sovereign" country.

A total of 5 members of the US House of Representatives Intelligence committee, headed by committee chairman Adam B. Schiffem wrote an open letter  to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg to crack down on Slovak citizens who glorify Russia, Vladimir Putin and spread alleged Russian disinformation on his social network. It is said to pose a huge threat to the security of the US and its allies.

In the letter, five Democratic Party congressmen call on Zuckerberg to increase the number of Censors in Slovakia, that is, in their words, “fact checkers” for verifying and deleting Russian disinformation and posts that express sympathy for Russia, Russian officials, the Russian army, etc.and also to launch an investigation into who publishes this information on Facebook .
These congressmen are Adam B. Schiff
Mike Quigley
Peter Welch
Sean Patrick Maloney
Jason Crow

Slovakia is officially an American colony with everything ? The civil rights of Slovaks to opinions on Facebook are controlled by US congressmen…. And the prime minister of Slovakia Eduard Heger still thanks them? Is this normal?

Slovak prime minister Eduard Heger  already sent his thanks to US congressmen also saying that this is result of a common truth-seeking effort and wrote also "It is highest time for as many people as possible to be clear about the values and to be able to navigate correctly in the complexities of the contemporary world."

Member of Slovak parliament Luboš Blaha from political party SMER has already responded to the intervention and wrote  an open counter-letter to Zuckerberg. 

Yes, it is obvious that Americans are afraid of massive anti-American sentiments in Slovakia among the ordinary population. Anti-American signs are beginning to appear, according to our information, everywhere, in all cities, and the police do not have time to blur the letters " Z " appearing in hundreds of cases. It is something like a form of” Zorro Avenger " protest against censorship and against American aggression in Ukraine, against the American nationalization of political and media processes, against the deployment of American occupation forces in Slovakia with the assistance of the government, which part of the Slovak public and especially the opposition calls treasonous.
Facebook is powerful in Slovakia. It is the most used social media platform in the country, with approximately 2.7 million active members, which is approximately 49% of the Slovak population.

Slovakia is very important for the US Congress from the logistical point of view of supplying weapons to Ukraine. It is a country that shares a border with Ukraine, and this makes Slovakia an extremely important vassal for the United States, so important that the US Congress is straining to eliminate resistance and opposition in Slovakia, including the criminalization of representatives of the strongest opposition party.

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                                                     Margaret
 

Tim Moseley

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New rules for internet in Europe

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New rules for internet in Europe

Countries and EU members have agreed on new rules for internet content. Negotiators from the European Parliament and EU member states have agreed on new rules under which technology giants must more closely monitor the content on their platforms and pay fees to regulators monitoring their compliance. Thus, hate speech and other illegal content on the internet should be removed more quickly in the future.

The agreement has yet to be confirmed by the European Parliament and EU states, but this is considered a formality, wrote the agency DPA.

The digital services act (DSA) is the second point of the strategy of the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, which aims to limit the power of the technology giants. The agreement was concluded after more than 16 hours of negotiations.

"We have a DSA agreement: the Digital Services Act will ensure that what is illegal offline is also perceived and addressed as illegal online – not as a slogan, as a reality," Vestager wrote on Twitter.

According to the DSA, companies face fines of up to six percent of their global turnover for violating the rules. In the event of repeated infringements, they could be prohibited from doing business in the EU.

The aim of the DSA is, among other things, to ensure that illegal content such as hate speech is removed more quickly from the network, that harmful disinformation and war propaganda are shared less, and that counterfeit products are sold less on internet marketplaces.

DSA is part of a large digital package proposed by the European Commission in December 2020. The second part is the digital markets act (DMA), for which the agreement was concluded at the end of March. The DMA aims above all to limit the market power of technology giants such as Google and Facebook with stricter rules.

One of the points at issue was, for example, the legislation under which the illegality in question would be assessed.

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Many internet users comment on this as oppression of freedom of speech. "Still no one really knows what it is hateful content and what it is misinformation, it is not specified, so it can be anything and also it will still change, swearing at Putin is now allowed, but for exactly the same swearing at Ukrainians you can also go to prison, but the hateful content is exactly the same." Or another comment " And who will ensure that those who will carry out these "regulatory" interventions are so well versed in the law (they should actually be judges by profession, right?) to be able to evaluate the contributions immediately and to judge whether or not they comply with the law??? "

Governments are clearly eager to tighten their censorship measures. But we have this free platform – Markethive.

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                                                               Margaret

 

 

Tim Moseley