Free speech is under attack again, just as we said it would be.
In 2023, when supporters asked about BTJ’s social media platform, DingDash, we reported that social media platforms had relaxed their anti-free speech policies to placate their users, but anticipated that the rules would again increase in 2024 due to the US presidential election.
And – now we are seeing it. The European Union’s Digital Commissioner, Thierry Breton, wrote a threatening letter to X platform owner Elon Musk on Monday, before the highly anticipated Donald Trump interview.
In his letter, Breton wrote that his interview with Donald Trump could lead the EU to take further action against X, using “our full toolbox, including by adopting interim measures, should it be warranted to protect EU citizens from harm.”
This threat is bigger than politics and freedom of speech and it is not about Donald Trump, Kamala Harris or even the US election. It is a direct threat to Christians. Bretons threatening letter is an act of overreaching government tyranny in an unabashed attempt to censor information from the people and is reflective of what Christians experience in China.
Christian beliefs are often categorized in what the EU Digital Commissioner has labeled “misinformation” and “harmful.”
The Christian proclamation of Jesus being the Son of God, born of a virgin mother, and raised from the dead is considered ‘misinformation,’ in China and by many communities. Communist nations use science to prove the Christian faith ‘wrong’, showing that virgin women do not have babies and dead men do not raise from the dead.
Just as Brenton argues in his letter that misinformation is dangerous to the public, so too does China when highlighting the dangers of Christianity. The Bible’s teachings on several subjects can be considered to be hateful and harmful. For instance, the Bible’s clear teaching against homosexuality, the reading of Genesis of humans being made both male and female, Jesus’ words of there being no other way to heaven but through Him, and the judgement of unbelievers at the end of time can all be considered hateful.
As X platform attacks are expected to raise in 2024, DingDash stands ready to go to allow free speech.
