INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
By Michael Shellenberger e Alex Gutentag*(Opinion) Governments against freedom of expression will become an international phenomenon that
social media users.A series of internal Twitter files served as the basis for reports showing how the social network censored truthful
information in recent years before its purchase by Elon Musk.Now, major countries are trying to codify this coordination into law
explicitly.Around the world, politicians have just passed or are about to pass sweeping new laws allowing governments to censor ordinary
accountable, several countries are establishing a vast and interconnected censorship apparatus, a new investigation by Public
enforcement, excesses, and abuses.In Ireland, for example, the government may soon be able to arrest citizens simply for possessing material
Internet activity of any American if it deems it a security risk.Governments aim for total control.In Canada, a state agency can filter and
manipulate what Canadians see online
In Australia, a single government official can force social media companies to remove posts.Governments and allied NGOs aim to force
technology companies to comply with their rules.Lawmakers in the UK have threatened to jail social network administrators who fail to censor
It seeks sweeping new powers to regulate social media companies.And, if it acts, it could change how social media operates worldwide, given
Restriction Act, spearheaded by Senator Mark Warner (Democrat from Virginia), threatens 20 years in prison or a US$250,000 fine for
or phone and the Internet.There has never been a moment like this in the nearly 30 years of widespread public Internet use in Western
societies.Government agents introduced these policies mostly at night, with little publicity or protest
There has been virtually a blackout about what is happening in mainstream news outlets, with many apparently supporting the new laws.As
revealed in the Twitter Files, the Censorship Industrial Complex intends both to discredit accurate facts, truthful narratives, and content
creators who threaten its power and to boost those who reassert it.We are therefore witnessing the emergence of a government apparatus with
the power to control the information environment in ways that determine what people believe to be true or false.As such, it is no
exaggeration to say that the West is on the verge of a form of totalitarianism far more powerful than communism or fascism, which were
limited in their reach by geography.If we want to defeat it, we need to understand it.Why are governments seeking to suppress free speech
from New Zealand to the Netherlands and Brazil to Canada? Why now? And why are they succeeding?INSIDE THE PLOT TO CENSOR THE PLANETThe
timing of the global crackdown on free speech does not seem to be a coincidence.Last year the Biden administration tried to create a
including Senator Warner, the Atlantic Council (an international policy think tank), the University of Washington, and Graphika (a social
network analysis company).What is happening now seems to represent the regrouping of the censorship advocacy after that defeat.With some
notable exceptions, the demand for censorship is driven by centre-left parties, with NGOs playing a subordinate role.Politicians are
for censorship and national security.The pressure is based on race, immigration (e.g., Ireland), trans issues (e.g., Ireland and Australia),
and safety or health (e.g., EU).However, research shows that people in Western societies have become more tolerant for decades.For example,
the percentage of Americans who approve of black-white marriages has increased from 4% in 1958 to 87% in 2013 and 94% in 2021.Meanwhile,
there is no evidence of an increase in the murder of trans people or even that trans people are killed at a higher-than-average rate.In
fact, no minority group in history has gone from stigmatized to celebrated faster than trans people.In Ireland, lawmakers have moved forward
law, even if individuals do not communicate or distribute the material on their devices, they will be considered guilty until proven
otherwise.They could face up to five years in prison.None of the politicians who advocate censorship seems to be intellectual heavyweights,
much less leaders.Instead, they all appear to be tools for powerful government and financial interests, including military and intelligence
security breach in Washington, D.C.In Canada, politicians defend censorship in the name of promoting Canadian culture and content.Still,
name of protecting children
In the US, politicians have inserted comprehensive surveillance measures into legislation to ban TikTok and thus expand spying to prevent
let the government criminalize free speech
(Photo internet reproduction)But the worst actions come from Europe, where the EU seeks sweeping powers to censor unwanted opinions and hand
intellectually if not officially, by DiResta.Why do politicians seek to crack down on free speech? Because they feel threatened by the
forced the censorship advocacy to move from the United States to other nations, particularly Europe, to censor Americans and the rest of
the world through the back door.HOW CAN WE STOP THEM?The most shocking aspect of this story is that the totalitarians are getting away with
house, and may soon be passed in Brazil.It is possible that as Enlightenment liberalism is overtaken by woke totalitarianism, the increasing
levels of freedom and free speech enjoyed by people in Western societies, particularly in the United States, for hundreds of years are
ending.But we and many others will not give up our freedoms without a fight
With this article, we are pleased to announce the global expansion of our investigation and fight against the Censorship Industrial
And we seek allies in every nation where free speech is under attack.Resistance is growing on the left and the right.In Ireland,
C-11 is dangerous in its own right, but it is also a precedent for a government that wants to extend this technocratic control to areas
fighting a proposed constitutional referendum to create a race-based body separate from the executive and legislative branches.In Brazil,
Paulo gave Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and pioneer against censorship, Glenn Greenwald a column to speak out against repression
public awareness about the risks of attacks on freedom of expression for democracy and Brazilians.Public pressure can still influence policy
and safeguard freedom of expression
believe that the elites have gone too far
If they felt secure in their censorship agenda, they would not be hiding and rushing this through legislatures around the world or trying to
censorship of Covid information, and other scandals revealed in the Twitter and Facebook archives.And now, new lawsuits are being filed.On
Tuesday (May 2), a lawsuit was filed against DiResta and Alex Stamos of the Stanford Internet Observatory and the US Department of Homeland
Security for their censorship activities in 2020 and 2021.It seems that citizens worldwide must take action to defend free speech from
totalitarians trying to take over power around the world, just as they did 75 years ago.The global totalitarian demand for censorship is
waking us up to the precious nature of our freedom.And now, we are finding each other and fighting back.* Michael Shellenberger is an
American environmentalist, author, and founder of Environmental Progress, a non-profit organization that promotes clean energy technologies
and environmental solutions based on scientific evidence
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