Here are 8 current articles from reclaimthenet[dot]org.
ONE:
“Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the government
is investing in new tools for security agencies to fight extremism and
online ‘misinformation’.”
TWO:
“Poland’s Andrzej Duda this week met with YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki
in Belweder and talked about reducing ‘misinformation,’ on the YouTube
platform – particularly when it comes to the Russian invasion of
Ukraine.”
THREE:
“…several studies refute the ‘video game’ narrative. In 2019, a study
by Oxford University concluded that ‘violent video game engagement is
not associated with adolescents’ aggressive behavior,’ and it was also
noted that countries where more time is spent on video games than the
US, such as Japan, don’t have increased violence.”
“However, the notion that games can be blamed for violence has increased calls for online censorship.”
FOUR:
“The Turkish government introduced a new law in parliament that will
give the government more control over the internet. The law was drafted
by President’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party
(AKP) and its ally the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).”
“The
law, which is expected to pass, will punish ‘spreading misinformation
on purpose.’ It prohibits publicly spreading ‘false information
regarding internal and external security, public order and the general
health of the country, in a way that is suitable for disturbing the
public peace, simply for the purpose of creating anxiety, fear or panic
among the people’.”
“The
punishment for intentionally spreading ‘false information’ will be one
to three years in prison. If the court finds that a person spread false
information as part of an organization that is illegal, the sentence
will be doubled.”
“Journalists might also be arrested under the new law for hiding sources who gave them ‘false information’.”
FIVE:
“During a World Economic Forum ‘Freedom of the Press Panel’ on
Thursday, journalists and rights group heads complained about the way
social media has allowed anyone to speak without ‘journalistic
accountability’ and called for social media companies to be held
accountable when their algorithms promote ‘rumors,’ ‘falsehoods,’ ‘hate
speech,’ and ‘divisiveness’.”
SIX:
“…more censorship on Facebook and Instagram, affecting posts by Media
Research Center (MRC) 27 times within one month earlier in 2022. Both
[Facebook and Instagram] have labeled this content as ‘missing context,’
which could therefore be ‘misleading’.”
“The
majority of MRC posts claim that the US no longer has energy
independence thanks to the fact it is increasingly relying on imported
oil, and mention Biden as the one to blame.”
SEVEN:
“Sweden’s Psychological Defence Agency was launched in January. Its
efforts include training thousands of public officials on how to respond
to false information and working with social media companies to reduce
its spread. When it launched, the head of the agency, Henrik Landerholm,
insisted that it’s ‘not the Ministry of Truth or a State Information
Board like we had during the Cold War’.”
EIGHT:
“At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting for 2022, an event where
powerful CEOs and world leaders meet to ‘find solutions to the world’s
most urgent challenges,’ YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki committed to
persistent censorship of ‘misinformation’ and praised YouTube’s existing
censorship efforts.”
These 8 pieces are a drop in the censorship bucket.
COVID
lunacy alerted the world population to official disinformation in a way
that no other issue has. All sorts of walls came down. This has spurred
officialdom to accelerate its efforts to eradicate opinion and
information it opposes and fears and hates.
They want to put the walls back up.
That is harder and more transparently criminal than building them in the first place.
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(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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