Fidesz-Europaabgeordneter Tamás Deutsch:
“The EU is using legislation to radically restrict freedom of expression.” Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch warned of the tragic consequences of this development at a conference on freedom of expression in Budapest.
It is regarding “binding rules of conduct” that are to be enforced as new EU standards. In the area of media, for example, Deutsch sees efforts to push through regulations that openly violate legal norms in member states, but even once morest Community law itself.
New EU authority should control mass media
It is a further violation of the EU basic treaties in order to deprive nation states of their powers. Another EU authority will be created to control the mass media and which might take action once morest “questionable content”. The concept of hate speech as a criminal offense would e.g. B. extended to critical comments on gender madness.
The Fidesz politician fears that even the provision in the Hungarian constitution, according to which “the mother is a woman and the father is a man,” might be classified as hate speech. “Unwanted” opinions are also eliminated in political advertising, thereby endangering freedom of expression.
Attacks on freedom of expression are no longer a dystopia
In the worst case scenario, these discriminatory provisions will come into force across the EU in just a few months, but certainly in a year or two. Dissenting opinions are then subject to legal action and fines. Warding off these attacks on personal freedom and the freedom of nations, the community and Europe is a “freedom fight,” explained Deutsch.
“EU attacks on freedom of expression
are no longer a dystopia,
but the frightening reality.”
Tamás Deutsch, Fidesz MEP, at a conference on freedom of expression in Budapest
The MEP pointed out the subtle difference between Hungarians and Western Europeans, according to which “only we know what it means to stand up and fight for freedom. Because we have already lived in a dictatorship that not only wanted to eliminate opinions, but also their protagonists.”
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