Anti-Defamation League, Facebook, Google & Youtube Appoint Themselves As Official Internet Censor
By
Richard Enos
from Collective Evolution
Richard Enos
from Collective Evolution In Brief
- The Facts:The
Anti-Defamation League is joining with Facebook, Google and others to
further attempt to
'curb hate speech and abuse' on the internet. - Reflect On:Are these companies running the risk of awakening more people to their thinly-veiled attempts to censor internet content that goes against their preferred narrative?
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In a foreboding sign that the free
expression of opinion on the internet is too much of a threat to the
powerful elite of our society, the Anti-Defamation League is leading the
charge in turning their own subjective opinions on ‘hate speech’ into
the absolute rule of Internet law. As this Cnet article reports,
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft, among others, are joining with the ADL to form a Cyberhate Problem-Solving Lab, the companies and the civil rights group said Tuesday. They’ll exchange ideas and develop strategies to try to curb hate speech and abuse on the companies’ various platforms and across the internet.“These companies have an added responsibility to do everything within their power to stop hate from flourishing on their watch,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. “We look forward to tackling this pressing challenge together.”
Wow. A Cyberhate Problem-Solving Lab. What heroes of selfless service to humanity.
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Like Monika Bickert, Facebook’s head of
global policy, who said in a statement that “some of the best minds in
engineering will work alongside the ADL to help us rise to the
occasion.” What occasion? The threat of the power that the proliferation
of free speech on the internet is giving to individual human beings
fighting for truth and justice.
Who Died And Made Them King?
It is disconcerting to me that we are
moving into a time where a once free and neutral internet has suddenly
come more and more under the control of powerful dictatorial forces.
Yes, dictatorial. The ADL is marching into the internet
cyberscape with the sense of entitlement to DICTATE what should and
shouldn’t be said by the rest of us. Doesn’t this mimic that actions of a
certain dictator from the past that the ADL would claim to have been
zealously opposed to? (I won’t name names for fear of triggering some
sophisticated ADL-Google-keyword-cyber-censoring mechanism).
The obvious fact is that the cabal of
organizations that will be sitting down at the Cyberhate Problem-Solving
Lab will likely make little mention of the impact of cyber-bullying and
online hate speech on human individuals. They will be more prone
to focus on how to continue hiding crimes against humanity
perpetrated by the global elite since time immemorial, crimes like
massive fraud, slavery, pedophilia, torture, and murder. And why would
these organizations be motivated to hide these crimes? Because they
are now controlled by the very global elite who are perpetrating them in
the first place.
The War On Hate
The whole narrative of a group that
self-identifies as having the authority ‘to curb hate speech and abuse’
on the internet is deeply flawed and even hypocritical. And employing
tactics in the same mold as the failed wars on drugs, cancer, and
terrorism further gives them away. These are nothing more than tactics
of obfuscation of what is really going on.
Human growth is not advanced by attempts to stifle, destroy, or eradicate darkness. As I discussed in my article ‘Let’s Discard The ‘Right’ To Be Insulted By Free Speech,’
we do not evolve by stopping people from expressing any hatred or other
negative emotions that are deep inside them, we evolve by allowing
people to express themselves freely and becoming immune to their
‘offensive’ remarks by learning not to take them personally.
Hate speech in itself cannot demean the
object of hatred, it only reveals the unhealed emotions of its source.
And the more we allow these unhealed emotions a chance to be let out,
the more space we create for personal and collective healing.
In that regard, attempts to actually do
something positive about human hatred through censorship is at best
naive, and in most cases like this one, it turns out to be a vehicle of
domination for those who would wish to maintain and expand control over
information and the self-expression of individuals.
The Need To Move Off These Platforms
The ADL aside, internet
corporations like Facebook that continue to delve more deeply into
censorship are playing a bit of a risky game. Perhaps many of them feel
that they are ‘too big to fail,’ in the sense that they believe they are
too essential to the lives of most people to suddenly get abandoned en masse.
Perhaps, for now, that is true. But I’m not sure that they should
really be messing with an Awakening Community that is growing larger by
the heartbeat.
Collective Evolution has a few interesting ideas in this regard that we will be launching soon. Stay tuned.
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