The socialist President of Mexico calls Facebook out for its heavy handed, Stalinist censorship.
From Gates of Vienna
In a speech last Friday Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador chided Facebook for its arrogance and censorship. Below are excerpts from his remarks as posted by the German-language service of RT.
Many thanks to Gary Fouse for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling. Note: There are German subtitles accompanying this clip, but it was translated from the original Spanish:
Video transcript:
| 00:06 | So let’s just start together. | |
| 00:12 | I have read the letter from the owner of Facebook, and I felt | |
| 00:20 | that he was speaking about his rules | |
| 00:25 | with a lot of superiority and arrogance. | |
| 00:30 | And what about freedom | |
| 00:34 | and the right to information? | |
| 00:41 | These recent occurrences should worry us… | |
| 00:52 | and we should ensure that we don’t stop | |
| 00:57 | creating alternative media… and that | |
| 01:02 | the people are always allowed to inform themselves. | |
| 01:22 | A worldwide media power, no more than a tribunal of censorship… | |
| 01:30 | like the holy Inquisition. | |
| 01:36 | But for the management of public opinion, | |
| 01:42 | that is very serious. | |
| 01:47 | Thank you very much. |
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