News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Gregory Wrightstone, a geologist and the Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition, has been banned from LinkedIn for sharing the US Government's own graphs of CO2 levels, which it says are "false" and "not allowed".
So many times we hear: "It’s not worth speaking out, I can’t risk it." In the long run, many will regret such timidity and bear scars from the battles they didn’t fight in a loss of self-respect.
Journalist Alex Berenson’s Twitter account has been reinstated as part of a resolution to a censorship lawsuit that both parties agreed to settle – the first tech company climbdown of its kind.
The most liked and most commented upon comment below a Financial Times article about Covid vaccines has been removed on the grounds that it "violated our community standards". We have reprinted it in full.
When Hindus are offended, the BBC describes what's offended them. When Christians are offended it does the same. But when Muslims are offended, it doesn't and the reader is left in the dark. Why the double standard?
Instinctively, it feels as though 'experts' must be peddling untruths knowingly, out of a misguided sense of paternalistic responsibility. But more troubling is the possibility they have bought into their own fictions.
According to leaked Facebook papers, some employees are unhappy with the tech giant for not censoring dissent from climate change orthodoxy, referring to this as a "bug" in the platform's content moderation policies.
Full Fact has been lobbying MPs to include "health misinformation" in the Online Safety Bill, forcing websites to censor content declared misinformation by sites like itself. But such sites are far from infallible.
Labour and SNP politicians have laid an amendment to the Online Safety Bill to include "health-related misinformation and disinformation" as a form of "harmful” speech, ratcheting up the censorship yet further.
Not only is the BBC refusing to quote the words that have sparked the latest Muslim 'blasphemy' bust up (on the specious grounds that they are "offensive") but it won't even entrust its audience with the general gist.
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