Eurozastupnik iz ESN grupe Petr Bystron komentirao je:<\/p>\n
\u201cGovorimo o milijardama koje Bruxelles o\u010dito namjerava uliti \u2013 bez ikakvog stvarnog demokratskog nadzora \u2013 u novu infrastrukturu cenzure i propagande. Pod izlikom \u2018za\u0161tite demokracije\u2019 stvara se golema ma\u0161ina za subvencioniranje platformi i medija naklonjenih vladi, dok se kriti\u010dki glasovi i dalje isklju\u010duju.<\/p>\n
To \u0161to se od europskih poreznih obveznika sada o\u010dekuje da popune prazninu koju su ostavila smanjenja sredstava USAID-a, uvreda je za svakoga tko vjeruje u istinsku medijsku raznolikost. Brisel se usu\u0111uje odlu\u010divati koje su informacije \u2018dobre\u2019 ili \u2018lo\u0161e\u2019, koji su mediji \u2018slobodni\u2019, a koji \u2018propaganda\u2019. Time EU definitivno napu\u0161ta slobodno tr\u017ei\u0161te ideja.<\/p>\n
Odlu\u010dno \u0107emo se suprotstaviti tim planovima. Da je Europska unija ozbiljna u vezi sa slobodom tiska i govora, tolerirala bi neugodne ili strane medije umjesto da ula\u017ee milijarde u ideolo\u0161ku policijsku snagu. Dezinformacije i propaganda uvijek se pripisuju drugima \u2013 no ovim programom Bruxelles institucionalizira jednostranu kontrolu same javnosti.\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