Will the censorship of the tech giants stop after the verdict in Texas?

One must hope so. The alternative is continued repression of real freedom of expression.

In a sensational ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals by a 2 to 1 vote, it has been decided that the Texas state legislature can pass and enforce a law that makes it a crime for tech giants like Facebook and Twitter to remove posts and comments at will.

In practice, we know very well who gets legal content removed. Almost only national-conservatives are the victims here, because the owners of the electronic media virtually all belong to the far left when it comes to immigration policy and e.g. legal policy and school policy.

The case is far from finally decided, as big tech will certainly take the case to the Supreme Court in the hope of an overturn. Back in May, the Supreme Court ruled that big tech could censor as much as they wanted because they were covered by the First Amendment, which should equate social media with printed newspapers.

In other words, the legal situation remains unclear, and only a clear decision from the Supreme Court can decide the case in the USA. As a Dane, I have never understood that Americans accept that non-elected judges have so much power that they are not only the judicial, branch but also de facto the legislative one. However, the Americans will have to find that out for themselves. I'm just expressing my wonder.

If we look at the same extremely important issue regarding the Western European countries, it looks at least as bad. In many countries such as Denmark, the courts do not have the same power as in the USA, and it is therefore not here that the problem lies.

It rests instead with the legislative power, represented by the national parliaments such as the Bundestag in Germany, the House of Commons in Great Britain and the Folketinget in Denmark.

So far, none of the legislative assemblies of the Western European countries have taken the initiative to curb the power of the authoritarian tech giants who want to cripple freedom of expression. Only Poland has taken certain steps, but it is unclear how much this has meant in practice.

The coming years will be decisive for whether whites in the USA and ethnic Europeans will continue to have homelands in the future, where they form the predominant ethnic majority of the individual populations. One of the biggest challenges in a virtual age is about being able to speak out on social media, and as long as the anti-democratic tech giants exercise their massive censorship of legal expressions of a conservative bent, so long will the fight for Europeans on both sides of The Atlantic be heavily hampered.

Let's hope that the ruling in the US is followed by a confirmation by the Supreme Court, and that legislators in the Western European countries take steps to hold big tech accountable for the morally criminal acts of removing legal speech on the most important media platforms of all.