Censorship on Social Media

Can Elon Musk beat the EU censors?

Brussels’ war on ‘disinformation’ and ‘hate speech’ is an affront to free speech and democracy.

Elon Musk, the eccentric billionaire and owner of X, has lifted the lid on the EU’s war on free speech.

Musk has accused the European Commission – the unelected body that rules over the European Union – of offering X an ‘illegal secret deal’. According to Musk, if he agreed to censor content – and keep quiet about it – regulators in Brussels would turn a blind eye to all of X’s alleged breaches of EU rules and regulations.

He claims that all the other Big Tech firms have agreed to these terms. The likes of Facebook and Google, Musk alleges, have become willing tools of censorship.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCensorship, Censorship on Social Media

Twitter unveils plans for ‘pre-bunks’ and special labels for midterm elections

Twitter announced in a blog post that it was implementing its civic integrity policy concerning the midterm elections, which will ban users from “manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes.” The policy will punish and diminish the reach of content that Twitter believes could have a detrimental effect on the election. This includes posting misleading information about how to participate, discouraging voters by making false claims about the state of voting sites or law enforcement, making false claims about the outcomes of the election, and creating accounts that falsely claim to be affiliated with a particular political organization.

Our Approach To The 2022 US Midterms

Here’s what you can expect to see on Twitter as election day approaches in the US:

Prebunks 

In the lead up to election day, we’ll share prompts with information about how and where to vote, directly to people’s timelines.

We’re also bringing back prebunks — in English, Spanish, and all other languages supported on Twitter — to get ahead of misleading narratives on Twitter, and to proactively address topics that may be the subject of misinformation. Over the coming months, we’ll place prompts directly on people’s timelines in the US and in Search when people type related terms, phrases, or hashtags.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCensorship, Censorship on Social Media, Election 2022, Twitter, Twitter is Evil

Not Enough Censorship: GLAAD FAILS Big Tech Platforms on LGBTQ ‘Safety’ Online

Woke pro-LGBTQ group GLAAD just gave five Big Tech platforms a failing score on LGBTQ “safety” online.

“They don’t have enforcement,” GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis claimed July 14 on CBS Mornings.

Radical LGBTQ+ organization GLAAD published a report giving five major social media companies failing grades for “safety” related to LGBTQ+ users. Ironically, GLAAD complained that Big Tech is censoring LGBTQ+ people online, while the organization simultaneously demanded a massive increase in censorship of supposedly bothersome content.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBig Gay, Big Tech, Big Tranny, Censorship, Censorship on Social Media

Jordan Peterson, Rex Murphy On Trudeau’s China Derived Internet Censorship

“Bill C- 11 all internet content as subject to the same CRTC regulation as CBC. I can’t believe I read it correctly. The bill is couched in all this diversity, inclusivity and equity terminology.”

“It’s unconscionable in a western democracy. Government are clamping down more viciously than any other developed country. Canadians won’t even know what content is hidden from them.”

— Dr. Jordan Peterson

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inAuthoritarianism, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

CRTC Chair Ian Scott Confirms Bill C-11 Can Be Used To Pressure Internet Platforms to Manipulate Algorithms

The Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications held an exceptionally important hearing as part of its Bill C-11 pre-study (which is about to change into a Bill C-11 study) last night featuring Canadian Heritage officials and CRTC Chair Ian Scott. I will have a second post on the officials, who struggled to provide clear answers to basic questions on everything from how to identify what counts as Cancon for user content (Youtube’s Content ID was suggested) to the absence of thresholds for what is covered by the bill (there are no thresholds and the government wants the ability to also target small streamers). But the key moment of the day came in questioning Scott about the discoverability and the potential for algorithmic manipulation.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Internet

Justin Trudeau’s authoritarian rule of Canada

Over the past two years, Canadians have been stripped of their Charter rights. Unvaccinated Canadians have been locked away from leaving the country and from seeing family members, people were forced to stay home in order to “save lives”, businesses were forced to shut their doors, church gatherings were limited by order of the state and now the government is seeking power to control what you and can and cannot see and say on the internet.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inAuthoritarianism, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

The Trudeau government is on a quest for censorship

The government is currently trying to rush new censorship legislation through Parliament at lightning speed. Through Bill C-11, the Trudeau government plans to hand the CRTC the power to control what content Canadians are exposed to online. This includes filtering feeds on popular apps like Netflix, YouTube and TikTok.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the government is deliberately choosing not to disclose the scope of these new regulatory powers until after the bill becomes law.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media

MO, LA Strike Back Against New DHS Ministry of Truth In Federal Court:

“DHS’s so-called ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ [DGB] … was not a novel initiative by the federal government to launch a new censorship program to silence disfavored voices on social media. On the contrary… federal social-media censorship program is already in full swing at DHS and other federal agencies on a massive scale. In fact, a massive scale that the DGB was created to centralize, normalize, and impose a bureaucratic structure on the massive campaign of online censorship that Defendants have already launched.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBig Brother, Big Government, Censorship, Censorship on Social Media

Bill C-11 Enters a Danger Zone: Government Shifts from Ignoring Witnesses on User Content Regulation to Dismissing Criticisms as “Misinformation”

The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage heard from a total of 48 witnesses as individuals or representing organizations during its study of Bill C-11 (excluding the CRTC and government officials). Of those 48, at least 16 either raised concerns about the regulation of user content in the bill or disputed government claims about its effect. Liberal, NDP and Bloc MPs proposed and voted for amendments in Bill C-11 raised by a single witness or organization, but somehow the testimony of one-third of the witnesses, which included creators, consumer groups, independent experts, Internet platforms, and industry associations. was ignored.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Disinformation", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media

CRTC confirms internet bill C-11 will regulate user content

The chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has confirmed that the Trudeau government’s Bill C-11 would crack down on user content – contrary to the government’s own testimony.

Testifying at a Canadian heritage committee hearing on Tuesday, CRTC chair Ian Scott said, “[Section] 4.2 allows the CRTC to prescribe by regulation user uploaded content subject to very explicit criteria. That is also in the Act.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada

Liberals End Debate On The Online News Act

Bill C-18 – the Online News Act – will no longer be debated.

The Liberals – along with the support of the NDP – voted to end debate on the legislation.

As noted by Michael Geist, this means that the Liberal heritage minister – in charge of pushing the legislation – spent more time debating the end of debate on C-18 than he did debating the legislation itself.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Internet, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

24 Hours With Trudeau: Guns Seized, Vaccine Lockdown, Internet Censorship

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has had a busy 24-hours. Within a one day period, the newly established Liberal-NDP Socialist Coalition government accomplished the following tasks:

Passed legislation to ban and collect handguns. Shut down Parliamentary debate regarding Internet Censorship. Overthrow opposition Conservative motion to end Covid lockdowns for the unvaccinated.

A triple play of draconian measures it is. Smooth sailing through the House of Commons it was, thanks to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s agreement to play back up goalie for Justin Trudeau’s pseudo-communist Liberal team.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship on Social Media, Gun Control, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Liberal Party Of Canada, Lockdown!, NDP

Could the federal government regulate your cat videos on YouTube? Maybe, former CRTC vice-chair warns

Despite the federal government’s assurances that it won’t regulate videos Canadians post for fun on platforms like YouTube and TikTok, a former top regulator has warned that a government bill still leaves the door open for doing precisely that.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Government is never your friend, Government regulation of every breath