You sure as hell can’t win these cases in democracies.

Belgium is apparently some kind of neo-fascist racist mania paradise, because those are the only places with freedom of speech.

That said, 27,000 euros isn’t exactly “mega jackpot” money. Free speech is literally priceless, but if it had a price, it would be a whole hella more than that.

Remix:

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been ordered to pay damages in the sum of €27,000 to a Belgian right-wing lawmaker for unfairly limiting his reach on the social media platform, otherwise known as “shadowbanning.”

The Antwerp Court of Appeal ruled on Monday in favor of Tom Vandendriessche, an MEP standing for reelection as the lead candidate for the Flemish separatist party, Vlaams Belang, in Belgium.

The court held that Facebook had unfairly censored Vandendriessche’s account, which currently boasts 234,000 followers, back in February 2021 and had failed to act “in accordance with the principle of good faith” and did not offer “sufficient procedural guarantees” for users who were subjected to such measures. His account was subsequently blocked in May of the same year.

Meta claimed it had acted in accordance with its community guidelines and accused the Belgian lawmaker of posting inappropriate content on the platform, leading to the shadowban. However, Vandendriessche was informed by the social media giant the ban had been lifted at the end of 2021, a claim he contested, as his organic reach remained artificially low.

No ruling was made on this claim, as the court held there was insufficient evidence to prove the account remained subject to adverse measures.

The judgment overruled the court of first instance, which ruled that Belgian courts did not have jurisdiction to decide on the matter, leading to an appeal to the higher court by Vandendriessche.

In a statement following the ruling, the Vlaams Belang politician hailed “a first victory against Big Tech,” insisting that “anonymous technocrats should never dictate what can be said and heard.”

“I hope that this ruling makes it clear to Facebook that they can no longer censor me, and many citizens with me, without consequences,” he added.

Vandendriessche was awarded €27,279 in damages, equal to the amount he had been forced to spend to contest the decision in the courts.

So the nigga broke even?

It was all just symbolic?

Wow.

What a huge victory.

This guy wasn’t even saying shit like “the kikes are using the niggers as a battering ram against the Aryan race.”

Vlaams Belang is the de facto successor of Vlaams Blok, which was the most popular party in Flanders until 2004, when it was destroyed by the courts

You can’t just go around saying things someone else said.

Remix:

Belgian MEP Tom Vandendriessche has been reprimanded by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola for concluding that EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson’s call for more migration to combat Europe’s aging workforce amounts to “deliberate, organized repopulation.”

The lawmaker for the Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang party, which sits with the Identity & Democracy group in the European Parliament, commented on the remarks by Johansson, the EU’s commissioner for home affairs, who said last month that the European Union needs at least 1 million migrants every year to replenish its depleting labor force and called for the bloc to further “invest in legal channels for regular migration.”

Same people who tell you AI will replace 60% of jobs, by the way.

Just in case anyone is keeping track on that – it’s the same people saying both things.

“These are Commissioner Johansson’s literal words: ‘We need migration’,” Vandendriessche said of the comments on Jan. 16.

“She wants to bring an additional 1 million migrants to Europe, on top of the many millions we already have.

“In doing so, she wants to combat the aging of Europe’s shrinking population. So she literally wants non-European peoples to replace shrinking European peoples.

“That is, by definition, replacement migration, a synonym for repopulation,” the Belgian MEP added.

Literally what she said

Vandendriessche’s interpretation of the commissioner’s remarks was met with scathing criticism from left-wing members of the European Parliament, including Dutch MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld, who accused him of using “Nazi terminology.”

Nazi, Nazi, Nazi.

What did Hitler even do?

They constantly slander this guy, but no one will ever tell you anything he did wrong.

The Flemish politician was subsequently investigated by the parliament for alleged hate speech, an investigation that has now been concluded and resulted in a reprimand by Metsola, the parliament head.

I don’t think there are translation problems here.

I think all the guy did was repeat what the woman said.

But he repeated it while not supporting it, which makes it hate speech.

This is a Jewish thing. If you say “Jews are so smart, look at how successful they are running the banking industry and Hollywood,” it’s not hate speech. If you say “should this small group of nepotistic aliens really be controlling all the banks and the entire entertainment industry?”, then it’s hate speech.

Personally, I think replacing the population of Europe and America with brown people is a really bad idea.

All opposition to the radical leftist agenda in Europe is now completely banned under various “hate speech” legislation.

Free West Media:

Four members of the conservative group Voorpost were sentenced for inciting hate and violence because of a banner announcing “Stop Islamization”. This is the latest attack on Flemish conservatives from a hostile Belgian elite ahead of the election.

The banner in question was held up at a protest in February of last year, reported Flemish news service VRT. The criminal court of Mechelen has sentenced four members of the conservative organization Voorpost for incitement of hate and violence during a protest in May 2020. On a banner under the words “Stop Islamization” were pictured some women in burkas or niqabs, and this combination, according to the court, went too far. Various Parliament members from Vlaams Belang have protested against the verdict in Mechelen.

Islamisering in de praktijk… Regeringscommissaris met #islam-hoofddoek terwijl spandoek #StopIslamisering wordt verboden! #Belgistan #Vivaldi pic.twitter.com/TWQOCoIRUi

— Filip Dewinter (@FDW_VB) June 1, 2021

On Saturday 30 May, 2020, at the Saturday Market in Mechelen, Voorpost held a protest against what they described as increasing Islamization. There some members also held up a banner with the words “Stop Islamization”. Under the words was depicted a row of women wearing niqabs and a second row of women with burkas.

According to the criminal court in Mechelen, the slogan and images went too far. “By having such signs and banners, the accused have the aim of instilling fear and creating hate in society by convincing onlookers of the idea that Islam may in the future dominate Flanders,” the verdict reads.

They were accused of creating an imagined danger whereby each woman, as a result of Islamization, would be forced to wear a burka or niqab. Such ideas attempt to feed on the fear and hate against Muslim society or to awaken it, so that others will be incited to engage in similar hateful and fear-mongering behaviour, the court maintained.

The four members of Voorpost were all sentenced to six months imprisonment. For three of them, this was suspended; for one the sentence went into effect. Their lawyer, Luc Deceuninck, will now look into whether they will appeal, but it seems probable. “This was just freedom of speech, a political statement, nothing else,” said Deceuninck in an initial reaction to the judgment.

“If someone says stop Islamization, they are not saying stop Islam. They are saying: Stop the pervasive influence of certain Islamic customs in our society. That is what they mean. The court actually did not answer our arguments,” said the displeased lawyer.

Vlaams Belang campaigns for free speech

Several parliamentarians from Vlaams Belang have protested in Mechelen against the verdict of the criminal court of Mechelen. On the Grand Market they unfurled banners with the same message, while holding up posters with the message, “Stop censorship”.

“The criminal conviction of the four Voorpost-activists is far beyond a miscarriage of justice. This is an attack on free speech, democracy, and the possibility of having an opposition. The resistance against Islamization is not an incitement to hate or violence. That is just freedom of speech. That is protecting what is dear to us, our identity,” said the Vlaams Belang chairman Tom Van Grieken.

Among those present were most of the leaders of the party, such as chairman Tom Van Grieken, federal group leader Barbara Pas, European Parliament member Gerolf Annemans, and some 25 Parliament members, including Flemish Parliament members Filip Dewinter, Sam Van Rooy, Anke Van Dermeersch, and Guy D’haeseleer.

Yes, there is no difference between “free speech” and “incitement to hate.”

They can ultimately say anything that you complain about it “hateful” to complain about, because they will say Jews are behind it and it is anti-Semitic to question the Jews. For example: protesting pornography is hateful against Jewish pornographers.

Saying you don’t want Moslems is hate, and eventually, also anti-Semitic, because it was the Jews’ idea to bring in all these Moslems.

Clearly, there is more to Putin than meets the eye.  The accusations of “far right” and “Antisemite” are all part of the plan.

Liberals are in tears over the fact that he called in “far right” extremists from all across Europe to observe the Crimean referendum.

Witness it.

IWPR:

The Kremlin is adamant that its intervention in the Crimea is a response to what Vladimir Putin has called an “orgy of nationalists, extremists and anti-Semites on the streets of Kiev”.

This makes the invitations issued to representatives of the European far right to observe the March 16 referendum on whether Crimea joins Russia at very least strange. What is even more baffling is why so many neo-Nazis not only accepted the invitation, but publicly praised everything about the referendum.

If the Russian narrative is correct, then far-right, anti-Semitic and xenophobic parties should have rallied to the right-wing Svoboda party and Right Sector movement in Ukraine, and opposed the referendum.

The list of observers included Béla Kovács from the Hungarian far-right Jobbik Party, noted for its anti-Semitic and homophobic views; far-right Spanish politician Enrique Ravello; three representatives of the Flemish right-wing party Vlaams Belang; as well as Belgian activist Luc Michel, who began in a neo-Nazi party and now espouses National Bolshevism.

Russian National Bolsheviks have, incidentally, been calling on the faithful to defend the Kremlin line on the Crimea.They have also supported Pavel Gubarev, a former member of the neo-Nazi, Russian chauvinist Russian National Unity movement who in early March, called on the Kremlin to send troops into the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.

The British National Party, a founding member of the Alliance of European National Movements, has also taken a pro-Kremlin approach. A March 5 statement which the Alliance issued on Ukraine was predictably anti-Semitic and bigoted, and distances the group from Ukrainian nationalists, some of whom it once had ties with.

From the beginning of the EuroMaidan protests in Ukraine, both Viktor Yanukovich’s regime and the Kremlin expended enormous efforts on presenting the participants as rabid anti-Semites, fascists and extremists.

All attempts by major Jewish, Crimean Tatar and human rights organisations in Ukraine to set the record straight were ignored by the Russian media, and often too by their counterparts in Western countries. Not, it turns out, by Europe’s far right, which has clearly drawn its own conclusions about its ideological friends.