Many people are becoming increasingly aware of the infrastructure being created by governments working hand-in-glove with Big Tech in order to censor any form of dissent. Even two years ago this view would have seemed somewhat paranoid, but through the important disclosures made by Senators Grassley and Hawley, the Twitter Files and also Big Brother Watch’s report on the Ministry of Truth, there is now irrefutable evidence that censorship is taking place on an unprecedented scale.
New research by Thinking Coalition shows that the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is playing an integral part in this censorship. The research highlights connections (depicted on an interactive map) showing the unhealthy alliance between Big Tech, government agencies (mainly security related) and oligarch foundations who cooperate in order to shut down dissent.
ISD grew out of the Club of Three, established by Lord Weidenfeld in 1996. Although the initial initiative was on countering extremism, a very worthwhile cause, it appears that before Lord Weidenfeld’s death in 2016, the ISD had already been used to counter ‘disinformation’. Judging by its recent annual reports, it seems that the vast majority of ISD’s efforts are now focused on ‘disinformation’. In particular, the ISD seeks to restrict free speech in the areas of:
- 2020 election analysis;
- COVID-19 disinformation; and
- Climate Change disinformation.
Focusing on the second two objectives, it is clear that they are not related to countering extremism. Accordingly, we believe that the ISD’s activities have overreached its original and worthwhile purpose.
Broadly speaking ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ are defined by the ISD and others as views which do not comply with the state’s declared position on a given subject. The category of misinformation, in essence, relates to erroneous data or opinions, whereas disinformation is a position based on knowingly incorrect data or arguments. Misinformation and disinformation are terms the ISD applies to undermine and negate any challenge to the mainstream narrative. In reality, misinformation means very little, since human knowledge has advanced through argument and counterargument. The idea that the state, or ISD, establishes absolute truth indicates a high degree of arrogance.
This is a dangerous precedent given how wrong governments have been, especially in the very recent past, for example, stating vaccines are 95% effective against Covid infection. With government propaganda recently exposed, it is hard to imagine that anyone could trust in the narrative. Yet, the infallibility of governments is an important baseline for the ISD and other statists.
The basic methodology of ISD, as well as a plethora of similar organisations, is to trawl through social media posts in order to identify heretics questioning the state’s current position on any given subject. Such organisations have been known to compile databases of non-believers, the best known probably being the DeSmog: Climate Disinformation Database. Infamy is such that even death does not result in absolution, such as in the case of David Bellamy who remains targeted even in memoriam.
The ISD’s main focus is elucidating network graphs which visualise interactions of users via social media, primarily Twitter. To provide this analysis with a ‘sciencey’ feeling, various network analysis tools are used and statistics, such as network density, are quoted. However, the entire exercise is flawed from the outset since the interactions of atomised Twitter users do not constitute anything in the nature of a network. The diagrams visualise the intensity of interactions between various Twitter users based on likes and retweets. However, liking or retweeting material from another user does not make you part of a network and ninety-nine times out of a hundred Twitter users will never meet or have any other kind of interaction outside of Twitter. Subtly, the language applied to groupings of Twitter users who, to some extent, share opinions is always negative with terms such as ‘disinformation community’.
As well as labelling Twitter groups in this way, the ISD will also smear specific individuals who receive a lot of social media traction, i.e., those expressing popular views. The most commonly used and increasingly meaningless smears are: ‘far Right’, ‘anti-vaxxers’, ‘climate change deniers’.
In addition to static mapping, the ISD and others are moving to live mapping of discussions online. By their own description, this involves sophisticated programming and it is likely that an enormous amount of time and money is being invested into this technology, again with the main objective of silencing dissent. The ISD alone spends over £5 million per year and, at this stage, it is likely that tens of millions of pounds have been invested by such groups into developing tools to identify political dissent in the U.K. and other countries
Ironically, the ISD and others complain that the opponents of government climate policy are anti-science. Objectively, nobody is more anti-science that the climate alarmism lobby whereby their whole modus operandi is to identify a spokesperson with almost no scientific credentials (e.g., Greta Thunberg) who then seeks to emotionally manipulate the wider public into accepting climate alarmism. Bjorn Lomborg’s book False Alarm meticulously dissects stories on hurricanes, climate related deaths, polar bears etc., and shows that these stories are either misrepresented or are outright lies.
Climate alarmists, like everyone who pushes faulty dogma, aim to silence opposition. The ISD proposes censorship through legislative means and close cooperation with Big Tech platforms, where it has several related initiatives; one is to ensure that its particular world view is incorporated into Big Tech’s Community Standards. While this sounds reasonable, the reality is that ‘community guidelines’ means all things to all people and is open to interpretation. In our experience, these guidelines are little more than the state’s current position on any particular topic, certainly not any kind of absolute truth. Big Tech users can be accused of breaching those guidelines (as we have been), but without identifying the offending action and without providing any option to remedy this breach. The limited right of appeal (if it even exists) on Big Tech platforms is self-regulated by the platform itself and not referred to any external adjudicator; Big Tech is the judge, jury and executioner. In perfect Kafkaesque style, the original breach is often never specified, and the accused is not aware of the offending content which breached the vaguely worded community guidelines.
As set out in the excellent analysis by Francis Hoar in ‘In Protection of Freedom of Speech‘, there can never be a reasonable case for removing that which is neither illegal under criminal law or defamatory under civil law. There are already robust laws which outlaw the use of speech to incite racial, religious or other hatred and civil laws to prevent defamation and other transgressions. There is simply no reasonable basis under which a partisan organisation like the ISD can present its own views as absolute truth and then insist on platforms policing their users to remove dissent to the ISD’s position.
Also encouraged is state sanctioned censorship via legislation which covers the so-called ‘legal, but harmful’ categories of free speech. In addition, the ISD encourages further censorship via legislation including the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) and the U.K. Online Safety Bill.
There is a very limited case for pointing out factually incorrect information posted on social media but only in clear cut cases of falsification and not in connection with views or opinions. In addition, this process should apply even-handedly, which would mean that in many cases it would be applied to the state and its representatives who regularly make untrue statements. For example, President Biden’s untrue statement that “you’re not going to get Covid if you have these vaccinations”.
Strikingly, the authors of the ISD’s recent report ‘Deny, Deceive, Delay’ have little discernible scientific education or professional experience that would enable them to determine what is misinformation. The head of ISD Climate Research and Policy graduated in Arabic and Spanish and her prior experience was as Regional Director Arts at the British Council – but this lack of credentials doesn’t impinge on her willingness to smear scientists like Bjorn Lomborg.
In order to illuminate these nefarious connections, we developed a simple network map for the ISD, where the links between the ISD and others represent real world links in the form of funding or other cooperation. The exact nature of each link between entities in the map can be viewed by hovering over the relevant connection. The ISD lists its funders, but there is no indication as to the relative contributions and, therefore, the relative influence in the context of an approximate £5 million annual income.
The map includes three categories of entity which routinely feature in policy setting, namely:
- A small group of around four foundations set up by ultra-wealthy individuals;
- Big Tech companies;
- Multiple national government agencies.
The same small group of large foundations fund NGOs which develop policy in all major areas including public health, climate and in this case digital censorship (CIFF, Open Society Foundations and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). They then link (via ISD in this case) with multiple governments around the world, particularly in the Anglosphere and in particular with security agencies of those governments.
Of course, cooperation between big business, governments and foundations is welcome, but there is the risk that this cooperation will be exploited and subvert the democratic process. Based on the recent disclosures via Senators Grassley, Hawley and others, it is clear that the cooperation between the state and Big Tech is moving in a unhealthy and coercive direction. Almost all major Big Tech companies appear in the ISD map, either as funders, partners in various initiatives (e.g., The Shared Endeavour Fund) or recipients of various reports from ISD. In the last category, ISD contacts Big Tech companies with a view to having specific content and users removed.
As mentioned above, the ISD cooperates with various other entities with a similar outlook. One such example is the charity Demos, which submitted a joint response to the Online Harms White Paper and shares common funders Google and the U.K. Government. Demos, in turn, is funded by GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), a U.K. Government intelligence agency.
Another important feature of the ISD map is the global nature of this cooperation, with multiple government agencies from the U.K., U.S., EU, Canada and Australia working with ISD.
The ISD (and others) claim a special status in their interactions with government as representatives of wider civil society. In fact, contrary to this, the ISD does not represent a large section of society, but, rather, actively works against sections of society by trying to censor popular commentators and researchers. It appears that government policy is disproportionately influenced by well-funded and well-organised interest groups like the ISD leading to increasing impositions placed on law abiding individuals who, by and large, wish to be left alone.
In conclusion, we believe that the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) censorship initiatives are not reasonable, are a threat to freedom and should be vigorously opposed.
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“Doctor Who has degenerated into a right-on lecture”
More concerned about Dr WHO, to be honest. I like Jodie Whittaker. I think she’s a good actress, but the show went down the pan the moment she arrived. Her third episode, I think, with all of space and time to choose from, and they are on the bus with Rosa Parks.
It should be retitled “Dr Esops Fables”!
“Judy Blume bowed to trans activists and betrayed J.K. Rowling”
Courage Judy, courage.!
A Judas is a Judas.
More on the WHO treaty debate, and look who’s name crops up again…
I know the one thing shouldn’t affect or influence the other but I just think, going by the way British MPs have behaved surrounding the whole death jab fiasco, the disinterest in harms, the clinging to the narrative that they’re ”safe and effective” and ”saved millions of lives”, how they snubbed Bridgen by walking out on his speech twice and he lost the party whip due to his views, it doesn’t bode well really does it? They don’t give a flying fig about personal freedoms and what’s best for the people. Hope I’m wrong, let’s see how it evolves I guess..
”However, the most telling line, in conclusion, came from Minister Trevelyan, who confirmed that although the UK is “a Sovereign state in control of whether we enter international agreements,” once the amendments had been agreed, they would be “legally binding in international law.”
Which begs the question: If the WHO has a legally binding mandate (which is entirely in accordance with the current version of the text) and the UK signs up to that mandate, how can we at the same time retain Sovereignty? The two seem mutually exclusive.
Which is why the issue needs a full public debate and Parliamentary scrutiny in the House of Commons, especially as amendments to IHR do not need to be agreed by heads of state; rather they are nodded through by unelected delegates: representing the UK is Professor Sir Chris Whitty.”
https://uncut.substack.com/p/seismic-threat-to-your-future
Actually, from the comments section, I totally agree with this guy. I reckon this is how it’s going to play out;
”Be chary of being reassured that the feared resignation of sovereignty won’t go through. Our mendacious rulers developed a standard tactic during covid for soothing consternation about any feared plan, defusing foreboding. Relax: lockdown is just for a few weeks. Vaccine passports? Never. We won’t do it. Mandatory jabbing? Not a chance. Jab children and babies? You think we’re depraved?
The tactic is simply to lie about the intention. Terminate the current kerfuffle, and a little later just quietly do the thing you promised you wouldn’t.”
They will do it , it’s probably a done deal , don’t forget they have already had a get together to push this through ! Look kids another dodgy WEF foreigner ruining your life prospects ! If Rapeford gets replaced in Wales it will be a full set
Anna de Buisseret has an interesting take on the pandemic treaty and IHR amendments.
She states that MPs handing over U.K. sovereignty to the WHO are committing treason.
Interesting…
Anna de Buisseret is correct. Constitutionally our Sovereignty cannot be given away.
They couldn’t mandate bodily infringements ! However they did ! They can do what they like & they know it !!..
Which confirms my point about “legally binding” – only when it suits therefore not legally binding at all.
I have an inkling that if the sovereign signs away our sovereignty by signing the act that will bind (in the darkness bind them) us to this treaty then in fact HE is committing treason and must be held to account. He is bound to protect the nation otherwise what is the point? He must represent something. If the treaty goes ahead, without any regard to the wishes of the population, then we are indeed in a tyranny and if that is the case, then all their lawmaking means nothing and we are duty bound not to comply and to create massive civil disobedience – I am wary of using that term in that it implies we are not being obedient to laws that we are meant to be obedient to! In a tyranny, obedience goes out of the window and we must be obedient to the higher levels of natural and common law, not some tacky legislation that a treasonous government thinks we must all abide by.
With you completely Aethelred.
It’s all coming on Top now ! I’m wilting ! People say ignore all info, mainstream & alternative but once you know Sh1t is constantly going down with an end result planned which will F us up your subconscious antenna is alert to even the slightest encroachment on our so called rights !
His mother didn’t have any problem with signing away our sovereignty so why should he?
There is no such thing anymore as “legally binding.” Over the last three years the law has been disregarded, abused, and blatantly misinterpreted such that legally binding is now a complete fiction.
Our Sovereignty cannot simply be given away and to suggest such shows once more how laws can be disregarded, abused and misinterpreted. If the starting point is legally binding then this applies across the board and hundreds of cases from the last three years will need to be reviewed in light of the above abuses, disregards and wilful misinterpretations.
Government seems to think that legally binding applies only as and when it suits them – it doesn’t.
Trouble is, there seems to be no such thing as ‘human rights’ anymore.
If this weren’t so then most of what occurred over the last few years would never have been allowed to happen. And I’m not just referring to all things scamdemic-related. Many of the woke nonsense, such as men in drag ( sex offenders, no less ) being allowed to do time in women’s prisons, is another example that springs to mind. Depressingly there are too many examples from the recent past to list. It’s all completely f*cked up, the modern world has gone to the dogs and there’s no such thing as a ‘free and democratic society’. Not very ‘glass half full’ but there you go. On we plod..
Human rights exist, the problem is that the vast majority of the world’s population don’t know their rights, don’t know that they each have the power to retain them & through fear willingly gave them away to their abusers.
We don’t ask for those rights to be returned, we take them back for ourselves. All those little acts of resistance do mount up & the more of us who stand for our rights the harder it is for the tyrannical governments to stamp us back into submission.
“Trouble is, there seems to be no such thing as ‘human rights’ anymore.”
The issue of ‘human rights’ has been dropped from the International Health Regulations currently under what I can only loosely describe as discussions.
So you are correct Mogs, ‘human rights’ have been done away with in all but name. And even when human rights are mentioned they are “rights” as defined by the Davos Deviants. A frightening development but perhaps indicative of their intention to enslave populations.
Good strong words, HP! Bravo!
Thanks Aethelred.
Gareth Eve, the husband of AstraZeneca victim Lisa Shaw, was surprisingly interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s World At One yesterday – one week after Elon Musk told the World:
“Does the BBC hold itself at all responsible for misinformation regarding masking and the side effects of vaccinations. And not reporting on that at all?”
Yet another coincidence?
Apparently Gareth Eve / Shaw “is no anti- vaxxer.” Well he damn well should be.
I have absolutely no time for this cretin.
Speak as you find.
I too am at a stage where I’m sick to the back teeth of anyone ( and I admit, I used to be one myself, until I became sufficiently informed ) stating that they aren’t “anti-vax” before they proceed to make their point. At this late stage *everyone* with a functioning brain, and especially anyone who’s not only lost a loved one ‘suddenly and unexpectedly’ but they actually know and admit the jab was the cause, should be questioning ALL vaccines/injectables. It’s absolutely insane not to! Embrace that label, I say. I’m now anti-vax and proud. 
Yup me too.
me too and I have never ever felt it was an insult anyway
Proud to stand with you Mogs.
I agree, I’ve spent two years feeling really quite sorry for him and the fact he was blatantly ignored by the msm and politicians when it came to getting answers for a full two years.
However there is so much wrong with this article I don’t know where to start. He is clearly being used but to what end? Flag AZ as the ‘bad’ vaccine so we ignore the mRNA issues? Who knows.
The degree of stupidity displayed by this chap is simply beyond comprehension. As Mogs states, for anyone with a functioning brain not to have done their research and realised how these injections are poisoning and killing people beggars belief. Perhaps he really is as stupid as he presents himself and is unwittingly allowing himself to be used. Something stinks with the story we are being given.
BBC News now reporting this today:
(Thank you Elon Musk!)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65321937
Anyone who follows Dr Claire Craig on Twitter (and some others) may have seen a tweet over the last few days saying ‘Perseus Report coming soon’…
Well it’s out today, and is being sent to all politicians….and also has a list of questions for the MHRA to answer….
I appreciate not everyone believes that writing letters, or signing petitions is useful..but with the debate in Government about the WHO, this might be the time to keep the pressure on and sign this one?
I’m not sure exactly who the Perseus group are, and I’ll put a couple of links in so you can have a look…but they have joined with #together, and are asking people to sign up to an open letter.
I’m going to do this one…and we will see…..
https://togetherdeclaration.org/MHRA/
https://perseus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Perseus_MHRA_Main-Report-1-1.pdf
I have signed also.
“Edred Whittingham is a PPE student”?
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I didn’t know they did courses in personal protective equipment!!
(Also, He sounds like a character from game of thrones
Sounds like hes gathering all the relevant qualifications to first be a political researcher, and then a LibDem MP…
Relevant to the frequent discussions we have here about how folk reacted to the tyranny, the abuse, from our abusers over the last 3 years is a meeting I attended yesterday evening. Meredith Miller presented to MD4CE about psychological abuse & the human survival mechanism responses. Very illuminating & when behaviour over the last 3 years is viewed through that lens it explains how the desired response was manufactured ( the barstewards were researching how reliable fear messaging was at obtaining a desired outcome in 2017!!!).
There are basically 4 survival modes: Flight, fight, freeze & fawn.
Flight is to run away & ignore; fight is to rail against the threat; freeze is literally unable to do anything & fawn is to people please & comply. When viewed in the context of an abusive relationship – which we were & still are in – it is easier to see how & why the majority of folk chose the compliance response.
Folk who have suffered an abusive relationship whether via communist state, an abusive family relationship or personal relationship were better able to spot that the official response in the Spring of 2020 was an abusive one. The reaction to the abuse stems back to how one responds to an abusive situation & for the vast majority of folk standing up to the bully is something that they would never countenance, but appeasing the bully is how they dealt with it in the past & therefore the default response to the current threats.
She also talked about disconnect in relationships, how hard it is to fully connect & how we’ve been groomed by digital tech to attune ourselves to the frequency of the text, the alert rather than staying attuned to our fellow humans. When digital tech is around, there is a frequency of alertness waiting for the next interruption, so nobody truly connects, truly relaxes & thus the division of us is made far easier.
It’s why we all felt so alone until we found our tribe, why we feel safe talking here as we recognise our tribe, those who understand us & why even though we disagree on some topics, we listen, consider, respond & respect that even though we disagree we’re not going to fight & be divided.
Her talk is well worth the investment of your time as she has some insights which help at a personal level.
The presentation will be posted here in the next couple of days:
https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
Meredith recommends this free course to help one when facing great trials & tribulations, which is all of us given the past few years! Hillsdale is an independent Christian College & is one of only 4 further education establishments in the USA who imposed no mandates for bioweapon injections on their students or staff.
https://online.hillsdale.edu/landing/dantes-divine-comedy
Reg. Ramesh Thakur’s article on the safety signal issue, it is noteworthy, that the responsible German regulator PEI’s head of statistics has recently admitted in court, that over 100.000 reported and accepted Covid ‘vaccine’ deaths would be necessary to generate such an ‘early warning’ safety signal.
https://www.achgut.com/artikel/Corona_impfung_nebenwirkungen_dunkelziffer_leugner_im_paul_ehrlich_institut
Almost as many as the total ‘with Covid’ deaths during the last 3 years and double the total excess mortality during that time frame (which happened primarily in H2/22 in the old and the under 45s…).
https://reitschuster.de/post/massive-uebersterblichkeit-ab-dem-zweiten-halbjahr-2021/
Same observation and age distribution for the UK, btw:
https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/the-onset-of-doom-part-ii
Apparently death from sinus cerebral venous thrombosis and thrombotic thrombocytopenia [blood clot on brain] two weeks after the first jab are “natural causes” if you are 32 years old.
Update: coroner Andrew Harris has added vaccine to death certificate.
Own Goal in Marie Antoinette moment:
DailyMail Headline: Net Zero campaigner Lord Turner urges people to drop red meat to save the planet and says he has switched to VENISON
Let them eat cake!
Net Zero guru says he has switched from beef to VENISON to help save the planet | Daily Mail Online
This half-wit won’t even produce half decent compost when he corbles it.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/welcome-migrants-to-guardianistan/
Laura Perrins over at TCW giving the left a good kicking.
“There is nothing charitable about being completely irresponsible.”
What a fine turn of phrase and admirably summing up our Guardianistas.
Dr Mike Yeadon commenting on his Telegram account – the C1984 injections were effectively a trial run and were intended to provide Billy and his chums with the data required to calibrate the poisons. The introduction of CBDC’s will be a means of starving out the non-compliant.
The next round of syringes are going to kill in weeks and months.
The Deagel population figures for 2025 are looking more and more prescient.
“Money printing spree drove up inflation”
No 5h1t Sherlock
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/18/robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-heal-the-great-divide/
An excellent look at one of the few heroes of our time, Robert F Kennedy Jnr and his aim to run for the US Presidency.
God bless him.