Good news.
Big Brother is eliminating “misinformation” on another topic. Henceforth you will not be allowed to disagree with your Silicon Valley billionaire overlords about the environment.
Tech companies are cracking down on climate misinformation ahead of this year’s United Nations COP26 climate summit, in an effort to get ahead of an expected surge in climate misinformation during the global conference.
Why it matters: Internet platforms have let climate denialism run rampant for years. New efforts to curb climate misinformation are finally happening in the wake of a more serious global conversation around the crisis.
… in other news from North Korea.
Finally, no further disagreement with the political, cultural, and economic establishment will be allowed. So what comes next?
Disagreement with elite positions on everything from election outcomes to men in dresses is already being banned as a dangerous threat to democracy. With democracy defined as one-party state where only one point view is allowed.
Where else must “rampant misinformation” and “egregious denialism” be stamped out?
Who will Big Tech censor next?
1. Rampant denialism of systemic racism?
2. Rampant support for the second amendment?
3. Rampant opposition to abortion?
There’s been some censorship around Black Lives Matter and some Big Tech social media platforms have tried to ban pro-life materials as “medical misinformation”. But I could see the media declaring that the existence of the Bill of Rights is “rampant misinformation” and pressuring Big Tech to eliminate any mention of the Bill of Rights. If Xi can do it, Google, Twitter, and Facebook can do it too.
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