Monday, 16 February 2026

The battle now is for freedom of information and Musk is the hero - but how long will he withstand pressure from the EU and Israel?

“Free speech is hanging by a thread globally, and that thread is Elon Musk … What's happening on X right now is a change of consciousness and … the establishment is desperate to either shut it down or censor it … It is a central priority for the left.” Professor Michael D. Shellenberger. 

Not just the left- Ursula v d Leyen said 'misinformation' is her fiirst priority, before climate change and Ukraine. Netanyahu thinks the same about the US social and other media.

Poland's Foreign Minister and husband of Ann Applebaum Radosław Sikorski said at the Munich Security Conference that the U.S. should not impose its free speech values on Europeans: "In the U.S., it's almost absolute... whereas in Europe, for good historical reasons... we believe in freedom of speech with responsibility." I'd have hoped someone who grew up under Communism would not say that but he is frightened of the people like Western European politicians.


Across Europe the pattern is clear: pro-EU parties are using mass immigration to steal elections to stop right-wing populist parties from winning, then using mass censorship of immigration policies to criminalize any attempt to stop their op.

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