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Freedom of Expression on the Internet Under Threat
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per SEBASTIAN BESTARD MOLINA
Correu-e: sebastianmolina555x@gmail.com (no verificat!) |
26 oct 2025
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Censorship dominates and controls the world, hiding objective reality and creating a fantastic parallel one. New threats to freedom of expression. |
Freedom of Expression on the Internet Under Threat
By Sebastián Bestard Molina
Censorship dominates and controls the world, hiding objective reality and creating a fantastic parallel one. New threats to freedom of expression.
I share here my latest article on the threats to freedom of expression in the digital age, with a focus on NATO, the EU, and information control. This is a personal and political manifesto against censorship and enforced conformity. I hope it can contribute to debate and reflection.
When Facebook or other social media platforms suspend or block you for political comments, when you can no longer work as an investigative journalist, when publishers refuse to publish your work—as if we were living under the Holy Office, the Inquisition, and a new, undeclared Index Librorum Prohibitorum—then you should begin to ask not only why, but whether this reflects the danger and proximity of a catastrophic global nuclear conflict, or whether it’s just an excuse to declare informational martial law.
Or perhaps this informational obscurantism is used to prepare and justify the unleashing of a planetary nuclear Ragnarok. The system seeks to impose only its version, its official truth, its dogmas—contradicted only by the sacrilegious, the heretics. Then you fall from grace, become a pariah, a dangerous subject to be surrounded by an ideological sanitary wall, like a leper of thought, a spreader of ideological viruses infecting pure minds with the poison of communism—or, as they now prefer to say, “Kremlin mouthpiece.”
Labeling you “pro-Russian” is meant to discredit you in the eyes of the naïve or those unfamiliar with psychological warfare. The goal is to discredit and often to erase you. Personalized algorithms using artificial intelligence block you online, where Emperor Google, with a thumbs-up or down, allows or condemns, deleting your “controversial” and “subversive” articles from servers—those that incite hatred, like “class struggle,” etc.
Often, silencing isn’t enough—they go as far as the physical extermination of journalists and free thinkers. In some countries, thousands have been murdered. This silencing of critical voices is especially relevant in this undeclared war between NATO and Russia—a new Cold War where “the fight against communism” has been replaced by hysterical Russophobia.
This war unfolds in Ukraine, where truth is the first casualty. The West seeks to monopolize truth, its version, its information/disinformation—offering only a biased view of the conflict, where only one bell rings: that of the Pentagon and Kyiv. Only they may comment, describe, and present it to the public as irrefutable dogma.
War propaganda in peacetime prepares and justifies war. And when war erupts, it monopolizes its own version. In hybrid wars, Western media disinformation plays a central role, monopolizing the narrative. Satellite or “friendly” countries’ media merely parrot imperial agencies.
But this top-down, one-way communication is harder to enforce in digital media, where information flows horizontally and democratically. Control by elites becomes problematic. That’s why digital platforms and social media are now under fire from hegemonic powers that cannot tolerate contradiction.
Not only is truth manipulated (or hidden), but its opposite is promoted: the most brutal and naked lie, turning white into black and vice versa. A parallel, unreal world is created, where everything moves upside down, like in Hegel’s dialectics. War propaganda accuses truth and objectivity of being “war propaganda.” One side strikes, hides its hand, and claims the victim struck first.
Goebbels would envy the torrent of lies and crude falsehoods circulating freely through mass disinformation media. And these same outlets accuse truth-tellers of spreading “Fake News.” These mass media are owned by big capital and act as its megaphones—radio, TV, press—and now seek to control everything published online.
That’s why digital communication is now under artillery fire from hegemonic powers. Censorship is nothing new—it’s millennia-old—but it intensified with capitalism, which saw free press as a threat. Napoleon predicted it: “Gunpowder ended feudal society, and ink will end the current one” (capitalist).
As today’s Cold War hints at a possible global nuclear conflict, disinformation and “Fake News” are excused as “war propaganda,” and martial laws are imposed to gag dissent and dictate what may or may not be written. Dissent is criminalized.
A recent example: the neo-Nazi government in Kyiv (with Washington’s blessing) issued a decree strangling free expression—going beyond criminalizing views contrary to the U.S., NATO, and Kyiv junta. It now censors even its own far-right war correspondents. After the NATO-backed pro-Nazi coup in 2014, freedoms vanished: opposition was banned, starting with Ukraine’s Communist Party. Not only were they barred from politics—they were persecuted, harassed, and burned alive in Odessa’s union building, echoing Nazi SS massacres.
President Zelensky awarded the title “National Hero of Ukraine” to Dmytro Kotsyubail, a neo-Nazi paramilitary leader involved in the Odessa massacre.
This decree against free expression was issued on September 8—the International Day of the Journalist, honoring Julius Fučík, a Czech communist journalist tortured and executed by Nazis.
To existing McCarthyism, modern Russophobia is added. Social media seeks to impose a single, absolute truth dictated by the U.S. global dictatorship, shaping public opinion in its favor—something Google and other platforms also pursue. Objective truth is kidnapped and replaced with their own interpretation.
Covering war is no longer an independent task—it must serve the dominant military power. If you express your own opinion, you’re labeled a “Kremlin Fake News propagandist,” your publications deleted, your books burned, and you become an invisible citizen, gagged and bound by censorship.
In Ukraine, “decommunization” began with the USSR’s fall in 1991 but intensified under Poroshenko in 2014. This pro-Nazi Russophobe told ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine they had no rights and should “go to Russia,” starting ethnic cleansing and labeling separatists as “terrorists,” bombing their cities, persecuting Russian speakers, and burning communists alive.
Poroshenko reformed the armed forces, incorporating Nazi battalions like Azov and Right Sector. According to CBS News, 120,000 far-right extremists were absorbed into Ukraine’s military.
Stepan Bandera, whose organization murdered 100,000 Jews and Poles, was declared a “Hero of Ukraine” in 2010. His group exterminated a quarter of Holocaust victims in Ukraine and massacred 100,000 Poles in Volyn and Galicia. Ukraine’s nazification reached its core, indoctrinating generations to worship fascist symbols and hate Russians. What freedom can exist in such a society? None.
Many Ukrainians today refuse to accept the Third Reich’s defeat and call themselves the “Fourth Reich.” During WWII, 80,000 Ukrainians from Galicia voluntarily joined the SS Galicia division. These Nazi leaders were never tried in Nuremberg—they fled to Western Europe and the U.S., protected by the CIA.
These descendants now govern Ukraine, parading in Nazi uniforms. If this regime already denied free speech, martial law now suspends all civil rights, militarizes society, and forces all able men and women to the front—millions as cannon fodder. Refusal, protest, or opinion is punished as treason.
This state of siege benefits the corrupt plutocratic elite, who use it to crush labor movements. Zelensky’s anti-worker law No. 5.351 (July 2022) enforces a brutal dictatorship of capital and oligarchs.
Under Kyiv’s new decree, journalists must report war as Zelensky and the military command dictate. Martial law suppresses all free expression, criminalizing it. Journalists must strictly obey new rules:
All war correspondents removed from the front
Forbidden to evaluate military actions
Only top military officials may report hostilities
No alternative interpretations allowed
No predictions permitted
Forbidden to report failed counterattacks or casualties
Casualties are so high they would demoralize the population. Journalists may not accompany troops or express opinions—only echo the “official truth.” This law is dictated by the U.S., whose national laws are intended to apply globally. Social media must show only one side of the conflict. All other views are declared Fake News and banned.
The U.S. claims this war entails extraterritorial laws and obligations for the entire Western world—its satellites. The U.S. media dictatorship casts its president as global sheriff, punishing all who disobey.
Though not officially at war with Russia, this proxy war in Ukraine is hybrid: economic, cyber, and media-based—delegated and indirect.
Military escalation could trigger nuclear conflict. NATO would then claim the right to monopolize all communications, media, and internet—before satellites are disabled by Russian electronic warfare or nuclear radiation.
At NATO’s 2016
When a state imposes prior review of a text before publication—authorizing or prohibiting it—there is no freedom of expression, only censorship. That is the mark of an absolutist, undemocratic regime.
They claim it’s an “exceptional measure” (in Uruguay, before the dictatorship, they were called “Prontas Medidas de Seguridad,” and people were hunted down and imprisoned for clandestinely publishing pamphlets against the dictatorship and those “exceptional measures” that violated the fundamental right to free expression—hallmarks of fascism trampling the law). Yet the EU seems to require no judicial oversight.
(See: DSA Regulation on Scribd).
They define “online information manipulation” (sic) as any form of expression or information not coming from media authorized by the U.S., NATO, or the EU. From now on, the internet will host only one “official truth”—a scenario similar to the one described in my dystopian sci-fi novel Operación Cronos, where a universal dictatorship of information is established through an all-powerful internet ruled by extreme censorship, criminalizing all divergent thought.
The October 4 law, the Digital Services Act (DSA), introduces “new online rules” and defines clear responsibilities for internet service providers—social networks, platforms, search engines—who “will be held accountable for their role in spreading illegal and harmful content” (Ndlr: they will be penalized), establishing obligations akin to watchdog surveillance, Gestapo-style.
(See: EU Council Press Release).
“The Digital Services package is the EU’s response to the need to regulate the digital space.” Once approved, the regulation will automatically apply across the EU without passing through national parliaments. This extends the already enacted resolution (Regulation (EU) 2022/350 of March 1, 2022), which represents a form of hybrid warfare against Russia, but which they claim is “a fight against hybrid threats, including disinformation” from the Russian Federation.
(See: Official EU Document).
Originally, it stated:
Operators are prohibited from broadcasting, allowing, facilitating, or otherwise contributing to the transmission of any content from legal persons, entities, or organizations listed in Annex XV, including via cable, satellite, IP-TV, internet service providers, platforms, or video-sharing apps—whether new or previously installed.
Any broadcasting license or authorization, transmission or distribution agreement with the listed entities is suspended.
Later, modifications were introduced, but they did not change the original intent: to block the dissemination of Russian public media like Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, deemed “Kremlin’s media machinery,” along with their affiliates and spokespersons (Ndlr: any journalist or communicator who echoes their views).
In April, some media and organizations protested these extraordinary, absolute powers the European Commission granted itself—powers difficult to reconcile with national laws. Brussels’ throne will decide for all, citing a supposed major threat that justifies a state of siege and the imposition of informational martial law.
Here is the DSA regulation: DSA on Scribd. One must ask: how far have we come in this absolutist attempt to decide what people should or shouldn’t read?
It’s an insult to people’s intelligence to doubt their ability to decide for themselves what to read and conclude—without being confronted by warning labels when opening a link, saying: “Media affiliated with Russia.” And if you try to open it, you’re warned again about the “danger” it poses. (In the worst case, you won’t be able to open it at all or even find that information anywhere online.)
I can’t imagine the opposite scenario: being warned, “Media affiliated with the CIA, the Pentagon, the U.S., or NATO.”
They treat people not as adults, but as small children who must be supervised in what they see and read—or as mentally disabled, senile, or stripped of rights due to some cognitive impairment. Can’t people choose what to read? Can’t they discern right from wrong? Aren’t they responsible adults? Don’t they have free will?
People must be given all the elements to decide for themselves. If only partial information is provided—or worse, hidden—then they cannot act freely. There is a right to seek information wherever one chooses.
There is a real and latent danger that the people will be left voiceless, and that the darkest forces in society will exploit this lack of information to justify the most monstrous acts against humanity—like an apocalyptic nuclear conflict.
Sebastián Bestard Molina
Investigative journalist, writer, and political-military observer. |
This work is in the public domain |
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