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Submission + - Trump: 'It's no longer free speech.' (politico.com) 1

Submitted by sysrammer on Friday September 26, 2025 @04:04PM

sysrammer writes: The president doubled down on his claims that critical media coverage of him is "illegal." ...
President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated his claim that critical television coverage of him is “illegal” and pushed back on criticisms that his administration was taking actions that chill free speech.
“When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, complaining about an apparent asymmetry between his victory in the 2024 election and his treatment by media organizations. It was not immediately clear what statistics or laws he was referencing.

Submission + - EU can now dictate what the rest of the world sees on Facebook (apnews.com)

Submitted by sysrammer on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:04PM

sysrammer writes: AP and Reuters, etc., are reporting that "The European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday that individual member countries can force Facebook to remove what they regard as unlawful material from the social network all over the world — a decision experts say could hinder free speech online and put a heavy burden on tech companies." (google "eu court facebook")

“The ruling essentially allows one country or region to decide what Internet users around the world can say and what information they can access,” said CCIA Europe senior manager Victoria de Posson.

“What might be considered defamatory comments about someone in one country will likely be considered constitutional free speech in another. Few hosting platforms, especially startups, will have the resources to implement elaborate monitoring systems.”

Another turn of the screw in the interaction between privacy and free speech.

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