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"The
Washington Post just published a deeply reported story about the Trump
administration’s campaign to “expand free speech” in Europe. That headline
alone should tell you something about how the story is framed — it takes the
administration’s self-description at face value, as though we’re watching some
noble effort to export the First Amendment across the Atlantic.
But if you get past the incredibly misleading headline, the actual reporting
reveals quite an admission from within the administration, and it fundamentally
undercuts everything they’ve been doing supposedly regarding “EU internet
censorship.” The story reveals that the Trump administration ran its own
investigation into EU censorship, found
nothing, and then barreled ahead with
the entire crusade anyway.
Worth repeating, because it’s the whole story (even if
WaPo buried it with
their headline): the Trump admin investigated “EU censorship.” The Trump admin
came up empty. And then the administration just kept going as if it were
undeniable that what their own investigators couldn’t find must have happened
anyway."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
