Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador began an international campaign to fight against censorship by social media companies after they all banned President Donald Trump.
From The Associated Press:
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration is reaching out to other government to form a common front on the issue.“I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue,” López Obrador said. “Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression.”“How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?” he asked.Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico is starting to build an international campaign around the issue.“Given that Mexico, through our president, has spoken out, we immediately made contact with others who think the same,” Ebrard said, noting they had heard from officials in France, Germany, the European Union, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.“The president’s orders are to make contact with all of them, share this concern and work on coming up with a joint proposal,” Ebrard said. “We will see what is proposed.”
The move comes after German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Twitter, describing the move as “problematic.”
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wants “new regulations” in the EU for social media platforms because “the owners of corporate giants should not decide which views are right and which are not.”
López Obrador did not go that far. He encouraged his Facebook followers to use Telegram:
Ramírez Cuevas said López Obrador manages his own social media accounts, and is not being ironic when he uses a favorite phrase, “the blessed social media.”“When he talks about the blessed social media, he is referring to the citizens who use it freely to express opinions freely and get information,” Ramírez Cuevas said. “The mass use of social media has allowed his message to get through, when before it was blocked by traditional news media.”
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