The European Union must ensure that large technology companies cannot interfere in the upcoming European elections, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade declared on Monday in Brussels, at the one-day meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Union member states.
Péter Szijjártó, speaking to Hungarian journalists during the break of the session, emphasized: it is anti-democratic and dangerous if large technology companies can decide which politician can use wider and which politician can use narrower channels to reach voters.
"It is dangerous if these companies can decide which politician can communicate, or if these companies can decide which news is correct and which news is false," he said.
According to his information, he asked his colleagues at the meeting to aim to protect freedom of speech in addition to protecting families, and to enable the European Union to ensure that large technology companies cannot interfere in the upcoming European elections.
The minister called it important to prevent the spread of cybercrime in order to protect families, children and "vulnerable, benign and inexperienced users". All manifestations of the suppression of cybercrime must be suppressed, with particular attention to pedophile crimes committed in the digital space, he said. Families must be protected so that children are not exposed to harmful content on the Internet against their parents' will, Péter Szijjártó added.
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