Censorship is upon us

Wherever you look, the black hand of the ruling elite is censoring the free marketplace of ideas to bring us into the NWO & the Great Reset.

Mike Benz: Bill Gates Opened a ‘Pandora’s Box’ of Censorship in Proxy War Against Elon Musk

Universities are being incentivized to censor

Higher-education charities are rewarding those who adopt the most censorious policies.

Censorship is already very present on Twitter. My account was abruptly canceled yesterday for stating the obvious truth that men are men, women are women and trans-people are simply suffering from a regrettable mental illness.

Why I Fear This Censors’ Charter

I’ve written the cover story for the June issue of the Critic setting out my concerns about the Online Safety Bill. In essence, it’s a gold-embossed invitation to woke activists to censor the speech of their political opponents in the name of protecting vulnerable people from ‘harm’. Why a Conservative Government with an 80-seat majority is handing this weapon to its enemies is a mystery. Here is an extract:

The Bill will empower Ofcom, the broadcast regulator, to fine social media companies up to 10% of their global turnover if they fail to remove harmful content — and not just harmful to children, which is hard to argue with, but to adults as well.

What does the Government mean by ‘harmful’? The only definition the Bill offers is in clause 150, where it sets out the details of a new Harmful Communications Offence, punishable by up to two years in jail: “‘harm’ means psychological harm amounting to at least serious distress.”

But, confusingly, it won’t just be harmful content that meets this definition that the bill will force social media companies to remove. After all, this relates to a new criminal offence — and content that meets the threshold for prosecution under this new law will, by definition, be illegal. Notoriously, the Bill will also force social media companies to remove ‘legal but harmful’ content — and exactly what that is, is anyone’s guess. I’m sure political activists and lobby groups claiming to speak on behalf of various victim groups will have a lot to say about it.

The bottom line is that stuff it is perfectly legal to say and write offline will be prohibited online. And not just mildly prohibited — YouTube or Twitter or Facebook could be fined of up to 10 per cent of their annual global turnover for a transgression — so in Facebook’s case $11.7 billion, based on its 2021 revenue.

That’s a powerful incentive for social media companies to remove anything remotely contentious — and they hardly need much encouragement. Facebook deleted 26.9 million pieces of content for violating its Community Standards on ‘hate speech’ in the first quarter of 2020, 17 times as many as the 1.6 million instances of deleted ‘hate speech’ in the last quarter of 2017.

More than 97% of Facebook’s purged ‘hate speech’ in the last three months of 2020 was identified by an algorithm and removed automatically. It’s a safe bet that the sensitivity dials on the algorithms social media companies use to censor questionable content will be turned up to 11 if this Bill ever becomes law.

Worth reading in full.

If you’re concerned about this Bill, please sign this petition and write to your MP.

One thought on “Censorship is upon us”

  1. Just as all criminals are hypocrites, all hypocrites are also criminals!

    Hypocrites can’t justify their “I’m always right!” bullshit with facts, to they have to invoke hurt feelings to shut up those who object to such obvious lies.

    Liberalism is victimology, which demands we believe without proof that since life is too complex for anyone to ever be able to understand causes and effects (if such things really exist) therefore since we’re all equally helpless mentally incompetent heroic fellow victims of inevitable forces beyond our comprehension and control, there is no such thing as mens-rea/guilty mind criminal intent, so there are no criminals and no crimes – except for those evil criminals who dare to pretend self-reliant free-will exists and therefore there are crimes and criminals!

    Those hatefully hurtful people are the only real criminals!

    So (hadn’t you heard?!) these days, being constructively angry at (“hateful” towards) criminals is now the most vile sin, while uselessly pitying (“tolerating”) them all as “equally-helpless fellow victims,” is to be deemed the highest moral virtue!

    Having no facts, logic, or reasonable arguments with which to defend their own crimes and treason, criminals must in stead substitute this global attempt to control our very thinking – through an emotional, sub-conscious “narrative” – so much so, that the only advice we hear from “our” hypocrite governments, their pet media, and the corporazi globalist banksters who own them all, seems to invariably be:

    “Anyone who doesn’t automatically pity all criminals as fellow victims should be hated!”

    Which is why hurting the feelings of criminals by accusing them of their crimes, is now a “hateful” crime itself!

    BOTTOM LINE:

    And that is why they want to legalize all crimes, defund the police, and empty all the prisons!

    “CAPISCE?”!

    😉

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