Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (D).
Last week, Twitter permanently banned President Trump and clamped down on censorship of conservative speech. Facebook, Instagram and other social media have also joined the censorship brigade. Faced with growing cyberbullying, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said he plans to form a coalition with other national leaders to defend free speech.
The Mexican government is reaching out to other governments to form a united front against social media censorship, the Associated Press reported on 14 May.
“I can tell you that at our first meeting of the 16th summit of the leaders of the Group of 20 (G20), I will make a proposal on this issue.” Lopez told the Associated Press that social media should not be used as an excuse to incite violence and ban freedom of expression.
How can a social media company act as if it is authoritative and omnipotent and can censor what people express with impunity, Lopez added?
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said they have begun contacting other like-minded countries to seek an end to Big Tech censorship at the international level. Ebrard said he has already received responses from officials in France, Germany, the European Union, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Twitter’s censorship of speech is intensifying, and on Thursday (Jan. 14), the conservative U.S. group Project Veritas released a video showing Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, calling on the platform for more action against President Trump and his The video shows Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey calling for more action against President Trump and his supporters. According to James O’Keefe, founder of the Truth Project, the video was provided by a Twitter insider.
In the video, Dorsey says they are only targeting President Trump’s account right now, but this is only the first step in what will actually be a much larger effort to clean up more accounts, and it will continue long after Biden’s inauguration.
“Because, you know, America is extremely divided right now. Our platforms are showing that every day.” Dorsey said in the video.
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