*The EU’s media crackdown: Why redfish is forced to close**
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February 22, 2023
Since 2017, redfish has dedicated itself to reporting from the
perspective of people around the world who are oppressed by the
capitalist system in the Global North and South and all its features:
racism, war, imperialism, patriarchy, ecocide and extreme inequality.
Looking back, we are immensely proud of all we have accomplished over
the past five years but the reality of developments around redfish this
year has forced us to make a hard decision: redfish is closing.
The relentless campaign of smears by mainstream media, academia and
think tanks; social media censorship and now state-sanctioned harassment
have made it impossible for us to continue. Here is what happened to us,
how we have been used as one test case in the EU’s weaponization of
“disinformation” to shut down critical voices, and why what we’ve been
through is only the beginning of a crackdown that will impact everyone,
including those who have encouraged and cheered the suppression of our work.
The recent Twitter Files have rightly brought a lot of attention to how
entrenched the US military and intelligence apparatus is at the
executive level of social media giants like Twitter, who control the
information we have access to. Completely under the radar, however, the
political heart of the EU in close collaboration with allied military
institutions and those same social media companies, has developed its
own strategy complete with a chilling array of tools to crack down on
voices critical of the status quo of Western capitalist imperialism. In
EU policy circles the threat is described as “undermining the European
project”, and questioning the “democratic legitimacy of the
representatives of Member States”. That is, in the eyes of the EU’s
decision-makers, voices that publicly question the current political and
socio-economic order in the West are no longer entitled to international
and EU legal protection which covers the right to freedom of expression.
On the contrary, we are to be treated as a threat.
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continua qui:
https://redfish.media/blog/the-eus-media-crackdown-why-redfish-is-forced-to-close/
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