Michael Schellenberger

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Reactions during Vice President JD Vance's @MunSecConf speech, where he launched a plethora of attacks on European governments, via POLITICO's @DashaBurns.

Our full takeaways on the speech: https://www.politico.eu/article/…
2/14/2025, 3:17:54 PM
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Michael Shellenberger
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@ThierryBreton @vonderleyen @EmmanuelMacron In both the EU and US, it's the military-industrial complex that is behind the Censorship Industrial Complex. They are basically the same thing:
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The European Commission says it wants to protect free speech but admits it will decide what Google, Facebook, and X censor. And now, Public has discovered that the EU's top censorship official is a former French defense contractor specializing in mass spying and censorship.
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@ThierryBreton European Commission President @vonderleyen, with the permission of @EmmanuelMacron, fired @ThierryBreton after he did this.
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European Commissioner @ThierryBreton is threatening to censor users on Twitter & other platforms. "I am the enforcer," he says. "I represent the law, which is the will of the state and the people." In truth, he is an unelected bureaucrat hell-bent on silencing disfavored voices.
Michael Shellenberger
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JD Vance was referring to remarks made by @ThierryBreton — the same French military contractor who threatened to interfere in US elections after Elon interviewed Trump!
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"I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don't go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany, too.

"These cavalier…
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"To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' who simply don't like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a…
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JD Vance drops this bombshell: "The organizers of this very conference have banned lawmakers representing populist parties on both the left and the right from participating in these conversations." (!)

Europe has lost its mind.

The statement '😂' is a lighthearted, non-substantive response to a serious discussion about censorship and political influence. It does not engage with the issues being discussed and instead uses humor or sarcasm.

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