Czech Republic’s Jan Lipavský Calls for Global Solution Against “False Content” at World Economic Forum

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský is in Davos, for the World Economic Forum (WEF). There, he offered his two-euro-cents about “misinformation” and democracy – albeit referring to the former as “false content.” Davos is just the right place for the minister to try to press home the “mantra” of “global solutions.” In this case – “a global solution (…) and to have a global discussion about the way [sic] how we communicate.” “How we communicate?” There may be a bit of a language barrier here, but is Mr. Lipavský actually talking up the merits of speech control, by any other name? Doesn’t seem unlikely, because some of the other phrases that came out of his mouth included “government accountability” and quite directly, a mention of “control” of technology that is made possible through government intervention, that is, “regulation.” (It’s not inconceivable that somewhere in the WEF corridors, China’s representatives were nodding approvingly…) Meanwhile, let’s see how it should work, according to the government in Prague and its rep. They certainly have a lot on their plate right now, but apparently, elections in various countries around the world seem to be top of agenda, and who better to talk about that, than a foreign minister. But even if they tend to talk about “4 million people across the globe” going to the polls, and how to gently, or not so gently, nudge them to pick…Czech Republic’s Jan Lipavský Calls for Global Solution Against “False Content” at World Economic Forum