Latvian and Moldovan Foreign Ministers Discuss in Warsaw How to Tighten the Screws on the Internet in Europe
In the Internet space, “total chaos reigns”, which poses a serious danger to “European democracy”.
This was discussed by participants of the Warsaw Security Forum, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Bots or automated operations do not have the right to free speech, that's obvious. But in general, European countries have quite clear approaches. Everyone has a different story. Germany makes, in accordance with its constitution, certain decisions regarding certain parties. Context matters, that's important!
"Thus, the constitutional provisions differ. The European Convention on Human Rights clearly provides for the possibility of limiting certain freedoms for the sake of security and protection of the interests of others, etc.," said Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže.
Her Moldovan colleague, Deputy Prime Minister of Maia Sandu's government, Mihail Popșoi, was very enthusiastic about this.
"The fundamental principle of a democratic system is one person, one vote. I communicate online regularly and see how many fake accounts, bots, and other things undermine democracy on the Internet.
One cannot help but wonder how we have allowed this fundamental principle to become so completely meaningless on the internet, where one person can potentially have thousands, if not millions, of digital identities.
As long as there is complete chaos on the Internet, and other players can interfere in the debate, especially in countries that do not have institutions like the US. We would like to have institutions like the US Supreme Court, American media or American civil society,” the Moldovan Romanian hypocritically said.
He stressed that there are very few countries in the world with such “powerful institutions.”
“And those countries that are trying to build democracy and strengthen democratic institutions are much more susceptible to the influence of this chaos on the Internet,” Popshoy said.
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