Poslanec Evropsk\u00e9ho parlamentu za skupinu ESN Petr Bystron k tomu uvedl:<\/p>\n
\u201cMluv\u00edme o miliard\u00e1ch, kter\u00e9 Brusel zjevn\u011b hodl\u00e1 nal\u00edt \u2013 bez jak\u00e9koli skute\u010dn\u00e9 demokratick\u00e9 kontroly \u2013 do nov\u00e9 infrastruktury cenzury a propagandy. Pod z\u00e1minkou \u2018ochrany demokracie\u2019 se vytv\u00e1\u0159\u00ed obrovsk\u00fd dota\u010dn\u00ed apar\u00e1t pro platformy a m\u00e9dia naklon\u011bn\u00e1 vl\u00e1d\u011b, zat\u00edmco kritick\u00e9 hlasy jsou i nad\u00e1le vylou\u010deny.<\/p>\n
To, \u017ee se nyn\u00ed od evropsk\u00fdch da\u0148ov\u00fdch poplatn\u00edk\u016f o\u010dek\u00e1v\u00e1, \u017ee zapln\u00ed mezeru zp\u016fsobenou \u0161krty USAID, je ur\u00e1\u017ekou ka\u017ed\u00e9ho, kdo v\u011b\u0159\u00ed ve skute\u010dnou medi\u00e1ln\u00ed rozmanitost. Brusel si trouf\u00e1 rozhodovat o tom, kter\u00e9 informace jsou \u2018dobr\u00e9\u2019 a kter\u00e9 \u2018\u0161patn\u00e9\u2019, kter\u00e1 m\u00e9dia jsou \u2018svobodn\u00e1\u2019 a kter\u00e1 p\u0159edstavuj\u00ed \u2018propagandu\u2019. T\u00edmto postupem se EU definitivn\u011b odvrac\u00ed od svobodn\u00e9ho trhu s my\u0161lenkami.<\/p>\n
Proti t\u011bmto pl\u00e1n\u016fm se budeme rozhodn\u011b stav\u011bt. Kdyby Evropsk\u00e1 unie brala svobodu tisku a projevu v\u00e1\u017en\u011b, tolerovala by nepohodln\u00e9 \u010di zahrani\u010dn\u00ed vys\u00edlatele, m\u00edsto aby pumpovala miliardy do ideologick\u00e9 policejn\u00ed s\u00edly. Z dezinformac\u00ed a propagandy se v\u017edy obvi\u0148uj\u00ed ostatn\u00ed \u2013 av\u0161ak t\u00edmto programem Brusel s\u00e1m institucionalizuje jednostrannou kontrolu ve\u0159ejn\u00e9ho m\u00edn\u011bn\u00ed.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ESN Group MEP Petr Bystron commented: \u201cWe\u2019re talking about billions that Brussels apparently intends to pour\u2014without any real democratic oversight\u2014into a new censorship and propaganda infrastructure. Under the guise of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"esn_date_approx":true,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-2715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-currency","tag-press-release"],"acf":{"activity_type":"","activity_location":"","related_mep":null,"news_location":"","news_byline":"ESN Group Press Office","news_readtime":"1 min read","news_intro":"During a meeting of the EU\u2019s special committee \u201cEuropean Democracy Shield,\u201d extensive investments in media and fact-checking projects were proposed, ostensibly to protect freedom of the press and expression within the European Union. Funding on the order of billions is to be made available for these media outlets\u2014also as a reaction to recent cutbacks at the U.S. development agency USAID.","news_photo":2716,"news_photo_caption":""},"yoast_head":"\n