Mexican president mounts campaign against social media bans


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DATE: Jan. 16, 2021, 9:12 p.m.

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  1. "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.”
  2. “How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?” he asked.
  3. Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico is starting to build an international campaign around the issue.
  4. “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."
  5. When it's the socialist President of Mexico who steps up as the leader of the free world against the totalitarian censorship of Big Tech...

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