The Støre Government would very much like to be top of the class in the EU and presents a legislative proposal for a 16-year age limit on social media. It is so out of sync with the time we live in that one would not think it possible. Støre will sell it as “security”, but he will set the youth against himself. Had the age limit been 12, it would have been something else. Then one is a child. But already from the age of 13, teenagers begin to stir, and they will not accept having to wait until they are 16.
Ap will set the youth against itself. The proposal will not survive in this form.
Why is it being put forward?
Security is another word for control. The power elite has lost control over public opinion. They see that they will not be able to regain it without authoritarian measures. The EU is thinking along the same lines and has introduced the Digital Services Act, which imposes on platforms and editorial offices that they censor themselves. If one connects this with hate laws, one has a formidable power to punish and fine. The EU has already done so with Elon Musk and X.
The USA had the regime that the EU now wishes to introduce: Federal authorities cooperated with the tech companies on censorship. They were like Siamese twins. The FBI had personnel inside Twitter who participated in the censorship. The Biden regime exerted pressure to censor more harshly than Twitter itself wished.
They introduced a regime that was so rigid and heavy-handed that a backlash ensued. It became an avalanche when Elon Musk bought Twitter and set opinions free.
The USA will therefore stand as a tempting beacon of freedom in the midst of European darkness. Is that what Støre and Vågslid want – that Norwegian youth should become fans of Trump’s USA?
For that is what they will become with this law.
Censorship sucks.
The legislative proposal shows zero understanding of the development of and on the internet.
No one owns the internet. To believe that one can control it is futile. The internet lives its own life.
Støre would very much like to be dux and receive gold stars in the report book in Brussels. What kind of image does he think the EU will have among Norwegian youth with such a proposal?
That they are a bunch of old men who are completely out of sync with their own time. The USA surges ahead, and Europe declines, in one area after another.
If you are to inspire the youth, you must show that you trust them. The Labour Party does not do that, but falls back on the worst traditions in its history: one is authoritarian, suspicious, paranoid, centrally governed.
If people on the left believe they are subjected to harassment today, they have no idea what they have in store. This is like preparing the ground for one’s own defeat.
The alternative Ap will have when the shit-storm comes is to tighten the screw even further.
There are already tendencies both in Germany and in the United Kingdom that point in that direction. There people receive the police at the door for having an opinion.
But was it not what Tore Bjørgo, head of C-REX, the extremism centre funded by Erna Solberg, said to Aftenposten: People who expressed themselves inappropriately online ought to receive a visit from the police. At the time, we wondered whether he was quite sound. Now this is reality in today’s Europe.
Can we expect any resistance from political Norway to a proposal that restricts the freedom of expression of entire generations while they are in their most formative period?
Støre falls into the same trap as Solberg did when she established C-REX. In her New Year’s address in 2017, Erna warned against Trump, who was then to be inaugurated, and against the right in Europe:
A Norwegian Conservative Prime Minister is more concerned about the right in the West than about Islamists, not to mention Islam. The incoming leader of the free world is perceived as a threat. To what? By whom?
Is there any reason to believe that Ine Eriksen Søreide has seen the light in the meantime? The fear of the new right in Europe is greater than ever, and it is shared by Støre and Søreide. Sylvi does not dare to enter the field in the most important issue of our time: freedom of expression.
The left stands before ideas it is unable to understand.
What we wrote on 4 January 2017 reaches its culmination in the proposal for a 16-year age limit on social media.
On which side will Norway end up or choose in the war that has been going on for quite some time, but which the Norwegian elite does not wish to admit is taking place?
It is this that forms the background to Tore Bjørgo, equipped with NOK 50 million by a blue-blue government, saying what he does. He delivers the goods.
22 July will forever be a weapon against the right and will be brought out, regardless of whether developments have disproved that there exists a violent European right. Instead, one must focus on opinions and assert that they are as dangerous as violence. That they are the first step on the way.
Bjørgo is not capable of grasping these ideas, as he is their enemy. To set him to research phenomena he is unable to understand is therefore not a good idea. Unless one wishes him to be a hitman, one who takes out the enemy.
Bjørgo has no problem with that. He does not work for Erna to be re-elected. Nor does he work for the values that Høyre once had to be preserved.
Bjørgo is a front-line soldier for the multicultural project, which is an alloy between socialism and Islam.
This is not about security. It is about the “upbringing” of the youth, about shaping them according to a utopian ideal that is totalitarian. It will backfire. Time has passed the DDR by.
This tendency in the EU will only accelerate a development in which the youth move precisely in the direction that Støre and his like wish to prevent.
It is a simple historical lesson.
But Støre and Vågslid do not listen with that ear.
They do not listen at all.
They are deaf.