this is the state of free speech in europe these days;

Ursula von der Leyen, non-popularly-elected president of the European Commission* and ultra-girl-boss extraordinaire, recently came out swinging against free speech in a white-knuckle speech in which she likened “malign information” to a “virus” that society must be inoculated against (by the state, obviously) via the “vaccine” of “prebunking,” a euphemism for censorship.*Fun fact: von der Leyen was so wildly unpopular in her own country that Germany was the only EU member state to abstain from the vote on her nomination in 2019. Democracy™!    “And finally, it takes resilience. As technology evolves, we need to build up societal immunity around information manipulation. Because research has shown that prebunking is more successful than debunking… in short, prevention is preferable to cure.    Perhaps if you think of information manipulation as a virus. Instead of treating an infection once it has taken hold—that is debunking—it is much better to vaccinate so that the body is inoculated...........more.........