The United Nations has unveiled the latest in a series of censorship initiatives, this one dubbed, the Global Principles for Information Integrity.
Neither the problems nor the solutions, as identified by the principles, are anything new; rather, they sound like regurgitated narratives heard from various nation-states, only this time lent the supposed clout of the UN and its chief, Antonio Guterres.
The topic is, “harm from misinformation and disinformation, and hate speech” – and this is presented with a sense of urgency, calling for immediate action from, once again, the usual group of entities that are supposed to execute censorship: governments, tech companies, media, advertisers, PR firms.
They are at once asked not to use or amplify “disinformation and hate speech” and then also combat it with some tried-and-tested tools: essentially algorithm manipulation (by “limiting algorithmic amplification”), labeling content, and the UN did not stop short of recommending demonetizing the “offenders.”
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Excerpt:
"In the wake of institutions having sought to coerce a large portion of the public into submission to lockdowns, masks, vaccines—global trust in the media is now at all time lows. Mass censorship did not help.
Lets look at a brief timeline since 2020[excerpt]
...They Wouldn’t Need To Censor Us if They Weren’t Lying
The lies surrounding Covid have woken many up many more to the reality of how capable the legacy media is at lying, as is the government. Similarly, Covid facilitated the awareness in millions that much of corporate mainstream “journalism” is nothing more than government propaganda.
Many independent journalists have already directly faced censorship as the war on disinformation grew out of 2016, which marked the rise of the age of fact checkers and the war on misinformation.
...While many understand that censorship started before Covid, many do not.
But it did. The “Censorship industrial complex”, as Michael Shellenberger deemed it in the Twitterfiles, did not appear overnight.
....And despite the Covid censorship coming to light, the day isn’t saved. The Censorship industrial complex marches on."
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