Spain: New Bill Targets ‘Pseudomedia’ in Press Freedom Crackdown
A regional bill in Spain will provide a preview of the restraints on freedom of the press planned by the country’s Socialist government.
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez announced recently that by July he would propose legislation for “democratic renewal,” specifically to “end the impunity” of what he called “pseudomedia.” These so-called pseudomedia outlets, according to Sánchez, “spread hoaxes and disinformation” with the help of financing from “the far-right coalition governments of the [center-right] Partido Popular and [populist] VOX.” The two parties have formed coalitions in several of Spain’s regional governments.
Sánchez promised this initiative when his wife came under investigation for alleged corruption and influence trafficking following months of reports in several Spanish media outlets that questioned her activities.
A few weeks before Sánchez delivers his promised legislation, the Socialist party in Andalusia has registered a bill in the regional parliament with the same end in mind.
El Debate reports that the bill includes proposals to “dignify” the profession of journalism through legislation “against hoaxes” and new rules around where the government can place advertising to prevent “pseudomedia” and “pseudojournalists” from receiving advertising money from the regional government.
The deputy spokesman for the Andalusian socialists, Josele Aguilar, claimed the proposal arose from his party’s concern over the state of “general disinformation” in Spain and Andalusia.
Additionally, the bill would include journalists in the government jobs scheme which stipulates the requirements for each post in public employment, specify which degrees are required for journalists, create support measures to “update” journalists over the age of 50, and measures to differentiate between “those who practice journalism as a professional or as a political agitator.”
For the general public, there are other measures to spread “digital literacy” among citizens so they “have the ability to discern” between information and “hoaxes.”
The Socialists will have the chance to defend their bill in the Andalusian parliament next week but it will be a tough sell as the center-right Partido Popular has an absolute majority in the chamber. It will, however, provide a platform for the Socialist Party to accuse their political opponents of fermenting “hoaxes,” accusations which will be echoed in government-friendly media throughout the country.
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These days, as the saying goes – you can’t swing a cat without hitting a “paper of record” giving prominent op-ed space to some current US administration official – and this is happening very close to the presidential election.
This time, the New York Times and US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy got together, with Murthy’s own slant on what opponents might see as another push to muzzle social media ahead of the November vote, under any pretext.
A pretext is, as per Murthy: new legislation that would “shield young people from online harassment, abuse and exploitation,” and there’s disinformation and such, of course.
Coming from Murthy, this is inevitably branded as “health disinformation.” But the way digital rights group EFF sees it – requiring “a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents” – is just unconstitutional.
Whenever minors are mentioned in this context, the obvious question is – how do platforms know somebody’s a minor? And that’s where the privacy and security nightmare known as age verification, or “assurance” comes in.
Critics think this is no more than a thinly veiled campaign to unmask internet users under what the authorities believe is the platitude that cannot be argued against – “thinking of the children.”
Yet in reality, while it can harm children, the overall target is everybody else. Basically – in a just and open internet, every adult who might think using this digital town square, and expressing an opinion, would not have to come with them producing a government-issued photo ID.
And, “nevermind” the fact that the same type of “advisory” is what is currently before the Supreme Court in the Murthy v. Missouri case, deliberating whether what no less than the First Amendment was violated in the alleged – prior – censorship collusion between the government and the Big Tech.
The White House is at this stage cautious to openly endorse the points Murthy made in the NYC think-piece, with a spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, “neither confirming nor denying” anything.
“So I think that’s important that he’ll continue to do that work” – was the “nothing burger” of a reply Jean-Pierre offered when asked about the idea of “Murthy labels.”
But Murthy is – and really, the whole gang around the current administration and legacy media bending their way – now seems to be in the going for broke mode ahead of November.
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