Vice President JD Vance made headlines in February by sternly rebuking Europe over attempts to censor free speech online. But is it any surprise for Americans to learn that US-based internet behemoths like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft are all financial supporters of a DC-based organization that vigorously endorses the squelching of civil liberty in Europe?
“I look to Brussels, where [European Union] commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be, quote, ‘hateful content,’” Vance stated in his February 14 address to the arch-globalist Munich Security Conference.
“Or to this very country [Germany], where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of, quote,…