German President Thinks X Is A Threat To Democracy

Posted • December 29, 2024: Europe is a weird place. We've heard about a rightward shift in European governments, but we've also heard horror stories about freedom of speech being under attack. Hungary isn't allowing unfettered immigration of migrants from Muslim countries and that's bad; other countries are making it hate speech to "criticize migrants" while they print up pamphlets letting their newcomers know that just because a woman isn't covered from head to toe in a burqa that she should be raped. Freedom of speech is something we don't appreciate enough in the United States. Well, maybe we do — we have been fighting for it, even if Democrats have given up on the First Amendment. Germany's president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the Social Democrat Party of Germany, is worried about the influence of free speech on X and considers it a danger to democracy.

🚨 German president Steinmeier (SPD) on the upcoming election: "External influence is a danger to democracy, whether it is covert… or open and blatant, as is currently being practiced particularly intensively on the platform X." —— If AfD wins they will say it's because of Russia and cancel it. According to Reuters, a newspaper editor just resigned after her paper posted an op-ed by Elon Musk supporting the "far-right-wing" Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Party. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/elon-musk-backs-afd-party-german-newspaper-opinion-piece-2024-12-28/ -- Let's strengthen Democracy by taking away from the people a social media platform that lets them freely discuss politics. -- Germany needs to address the elephant in the room (the country has become a dumpster fire). It's time to stop focusing so much on Musk, Ukraine, and Russia, and prioritize getting its own house in order first. Their people deserve that. (…)

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