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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the latest liberal leader to call for an international alliance to censor speech. Unsatisfied with the unprecedented corporate censorship of social media companies, leaders like Hillary Clinton have turned from private censorship to good old-fashioned state censorship. Speech regulation has become an article of faith on the left. Ardern used her speech this week to the United Nations General Assembly to call for censorship on a global scale.
Ardern lashed out at “disinformation” and called for a global coalition to control speech. After nodding toward free speech, she proceeded to lay out a plan for its demise through government regulation:
But what if that lie, told repeatedly, and across many platforms, prompts, inspires, or motivates others to take up arms. To threaten the security of others. To turn a blind eye to atrocities, or worse, to become complicit in them. What then?
This is no longer a hypothetical. The weapons of war have changed, they are upon us and require the same level of action and activity that we put into the weapons of old.
We recognized the threats that the old weapons created. We came together as communities to minimize these threats. We created international rules, norms and expectations. We never saw that as a threat to our individual liberties – rather, it was a preservation of them. The same must apply now as we take on these new challenges.
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: v1rtu0s0
The problem is, people can't think for themselves, so the government needs to think for them, which means they need to censor the peasants.
if the NZ member here is any indication of "smarts", I'd say you are spot on.
if the NZ member here is any indication of "smarts", I'd say you are spot on.
But what if that lie, told repeatedly, and across many platforms, prompts, inspires, or motivates others to take up arms. To threaten the security of others. To turn a blind eye to atrocities, or worse, to become complicit in them. What then?
100% spot on!
originally posted by: thethinkingman
The governments and their politicians desperately need attention because they know the vast majority of people dont care about what they say ...cause they're liars.... The more people ignore them, the more extreme they will become.
So they constantly have to pull these little stunts where they say extreme stuff then reel it back. They also do this to try and make it seem like they've compromised and been "fair". So they make out something completely terrible will happen then you accept their agenda that doesnt seem as bad as that terrible thing but ....is worse than what you already are doing....
I mean if the law really mattered and was upheld, most of these politicians couldnt be in office. The law only exists if someone like a policeman finds a crime then does something about it... you can do as many crimes as you like if nobody from the law see's.
These politicians constantly do criminal activities and if nobody charges them.....nothing happens. They make zillions of new rules as a cover to be able to do things "legally", these people make up the rules that they know how to slip out of. They are simply there to slow everyone down whilst they do things outside of these rules and nobody see's or in the last 2 years, everyone see's and just kinda think someone will do something.....
They've effectively made rules where they can kill you but you can't fight back, they can take from you but when you do it its called "stealing". They can print out BILLIONS and make you pay, make you suffer and you just have too or someone can come and take all your stuff cause ..."debt".
Every single "rich" nation is in so much debt, they cant actually pay it...so who is it owed too? These people are literally just using "debt" which is unpayable to make money, to steal your assets from you because theres interest on that debt, the uk's debt is increasing 5000 pounds PER SECOND because of this.
Even if you are not in personal debt, you're in debt due to the national debt, which will increase prices and means you'll have to pay more for less. Then people want more money, so they have to take money from somewhere or something....someone has to lose. Its rigged. They have control over everyone due to this system.
The whole crashing of the markets is so that people will have to sell off things at a low price just to get by...this is where all the hawks swarm in, they plan this, buy everything up then its all dandy again once they have all the assets.
They then have the money to place where they want you to go, they wanna build a zillion 5G towers everywhere??? well they'll dangle money there and get you all to do it. Its a big game. They can't get you to do what they want if you're comfortable and secure without them - so they will make you need them or they're threaten your comfort so you conform.
When are people gonna wake up......