Even if you pretend, and just grant everything the EU is saying, and they really want to protect people and stop misinformation (which I don't believe for even a second). This is still NOT the way to do it. You don't infantilize your population and protect them from their own stupidity. Actual truth fights all this. You counter misinformation with information. If they could provide actual facts and stop lying constantly they would win.
But obviously they are not being genuine. Instead they try to fight it with constant appeals to authority, appeals to emotion, dogma, and finally by force.. They know they are lying, and they desperately want to regain control. But I don't think you can ever put that genie back in the bottle. They are going to try, and they are going to overstep, and the massive backlash from that is going to be their downfall.
Defeated by a bunch of frogs.
Inb4 Elon Musk sends them a giant (Blue) hamster, possibly with a butterfly for a head.
The forced mergers are signs of true facsism. Just more totalitarian crap.
Even if you pretend, and just grant everything the EU is saying, and they really want to protect people and stop misinformation (which I don't believe for even a second). This is still NOT the way to do it. You don't infantilize your population and protect them from their own stupidity. Actual truth fights all this. You counter misinformation with information. If they could provide actual facts and stop lying constantly they would win.
But obviously they are not being genuine. Instead they try to fight it with constant appeals to authority, appeals to emotion, dogma, and finally by force.. They know they are lying, and they desperately want to regain control. But I don't think you can ever put that genie back in the bottle. They are going to try, and they are going to overstep, and the massive backlash from that is going to be their downfall.