French politician and businessman Thierry Breton had until late been EU Commissioner for Ursula von der Leyen's rule. He was the driving force behind the Digital Services Act (DSA), which presently even plays a function in the EU elections. In Romania, elections were late cancelled under the DSA.
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Former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton became known to wider public erstwhile he published a threatening letter in August to Elona Muska on the X in which he called on people to take action against “disinformation”. The event was planned to broadcast Musk's conversation with Trump, which could besides be received in the EU. Until then, he has acted outside the scope of the public, although as an unelected EU Commissioner he is 1 of the most powerful people in Europe – and has an impact on the right to freedom of expression of millions of EU citizens. Then Ursula von der Leyen made certain he lost his position, the threatening letter to Musk was not agreed with her.
Breton entered the political phase in 2005 and until 2007 was the French minister of economy in the government of Jacques Chirac. Until his promotion to the European Commission in 2019, he held managerial positions in business in the IT sector. For example, in 2012, he was elected the “Strateg of the Year” by the French financial paper Les Échos. Appointed by the French Government of Thierry Breton, it was approved by the European Parliament in 2019 as the European Commission's "Internal marketplace and Services Commissioner". Like all Commissioners, he had to face the European Parliament test in the committee. The Committee on Legal Affairs approved it in November by 12 votes to 11. The European Parliament then approved the full composition of the European Commission, including Breton as Commissioner and Ursula von der Leyen as president of the Commission. Therefore, both are not elected; Ursula von der Leyen was besides not on the ballot list as CDU candidate in the European elections
In his cabinet, the Commissioner drew up a draft digital service act (DSA) together with Danish policies Margrethe Vestager – along with Danish politician Margrethe Vestager. Its organization "Radikale Venstre" is translated as "Radical Left", but is considered to be social democratic, which highlights "the importance of a strong welfare state combined with the marketplace economy". Thierry Breton is independent.
Vestager and Breton presented their first task in December 2020, after social media had been censored for months during the coronavirus pandemic. likewise in the US, the democratic administration of Joe Biden besides introduced a digital censorship strategy that contained "black lists" of recognised experts critical of the government. But then the wind turned around.
In October 2022 Elon Musk bought Twitter, then abolished censorship, which yet restored freedom of speech on the most crucial social media platform in the EU under the fresh name X. The same month, a digital service act was published, which came into force 20 days later as an EU regulation. Non-choice bureaucrats from another countries came up with restrictions on freedom of expression that apply in Germany, as the Bundestag passed the "EU Regulation Implementation Act" of the DSA.
DSA Thierry Breton takes a militant and aggressive stance towards freedom of speech, referred to as "the fight against disinformation and hatred speech", in which these terms can be interpreted arbitrarily so that legal content and opinions can besides be criminalised. When, for example, Tagesschau defends the EU against accusations of censorship put forward by the Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg against the EU that only "illegal content" will be attacked, that is simply a tautological false argument: as content becomes illegal only through the DSA censorship programme.
The "illegal speech" can be anything, as shown by the EU guide to alleged "trusty signalers" – that is, censorship offices commissioned to NGOs – which NIUS informed in item about. Under the heading “Other”, it opens the door to the arbitraryity of the censor of a given non-governmental organisation. What is considered illegal is what is classified as illegal regardless of the law. abroad interference can mean anything.
In its main work “Elements and genesis of totalitarian governments” Hannah Arendt described the bureaucracy as a ‘legislature regime’ which ‘as opposed to the regulation of law’ of constitutional states was a ‘legislature of despotism’. In today's world, the highest welfare of free societies, freedom of speech, is restricted by EU regulations written by unelected bureaucrats.
Elon Musk accuses Thierry Breton of being “a tyrant of Europe”. The reason for this is the threat of the annulment of the February elections to the German Bundestag on the basis of the DSA, as was previously the case in Romania. Time will show whether EU bureaucrats can prevent elections besides in Germany, e.g. by arguing that Elon Musk spoke to AfD leader Alice Weidel On X.
Thierry Breton believes specified interventions are justified and correct. "In the last 5 years, I have worked tirelessly to make the common European good more crucial than national and organization interests," he wrote in a suicide note published on the X portal in September 2024. There's no telling what he's done since then. In any event, on the French tv air, he comments on the next elections in Germany: “You can talk about abroad interference”.
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