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It also highlights how misinformation derails free speech. At the request of Ms. Auken, the Forum removed all media around her piece because of the online abuse and threats she had faced. Action to prevent lies being accepted as truth can help avoid similar situations and promote genuine free speech, allowing us all to freely exchange ideas and opinions.
Instead of repudiating and condemning this odious topic, we have a managing director of the WEF using a national media platform to "shoot the messenger". This whole article focusses on smearing fringe groups for spotting and promulgating this phrase, to the point that it enters the mainstream.
No explanation is provided as to what the WEF's thinking was behind the phrase. Here are some questions I have that I was hoping the WEF would have answered:
- If I "own nothing", who will own the stuff that I rent?
- Who will choose those owners? How will they be chosen?
- How is this different from the socialism that was tried in the USSR, North Korea and Cuba?
- Does the WEF still believe it?
Regardless that the fringe 4chan or other message boards got this out into the public, they were only the messengers. This topic originated from the brain trust within the WEF. They own it, and still have to explain it. Not attempt to bury it from the public.