The democracies turning against online speech

New laws in Europe and Brazil threaten to knock social platforms offline

Jul 26, 2023

∙ Paid

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - JUNE 15: European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton is talking to media in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on June 15, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, EU Member States, with the support of the European Commission and ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, published a second progress report on the implementation of the EU Toolbox on 5G cybersecurity. The report also addresses some of the recommendations of the European Court of Auditors' Special Report of January 2022. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images) — European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton addresses the media in Brussels in June. (Thierry Monasse / Getty Images)

A nice thing Twitter used to do for users, on occasion, was to fight for their speech rights. Last year in India, for example, when the Modi government began ordering the platform to remove a large number of posts and account…

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