Posted on 02/20/2023 11:17:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Government has established a working group to coordinate efforts to combat the spread of disinformation on the internet.
The multi-stakeholder group will be tasked with providing a joined-up approach to reduce the creation and spread of false and harmful material.
Members will aim to complete a National Counter-Disinformation Strategy by the end of the year, in a process that will also involve a public consultation.
The establishment of the working group fulfills a recommendation in The Future of Media Commission report, which called for a more coordinated and strategic approach to combat the damaging impact of disinformation on Irish society and democracy. […]
Martina Chapman, National Coordinator of Media Literacy Ireland and an independent media literacy consultant, has been nominated to independently chair the Group. …
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The Ministry of Truth?
I remember when nations didn’t have government oversight to police speech so the public wouldn’t engage in ‘wrong thoughts’.
Homogeneous countries don't have as much internal strife as do diverse countries.
The more diverse a population, the more competition for resources, the more words and customs that offend one group or another, and the more conflict. Thus, the more the government feels compelled to ban speech and customs that offend.
While (southern) Ireland was almost exclusively white, ethically Irish Catholic, people mostly agreed on most things. No longer.
The Irish had enough trouble getting along when it was only Catholic and Protestant. But with the influx of migrants...
Compelled to? No. More like “concocted an excuse to”.
By whatever name the Ministry of Truth is just whack-a-mole.
Diversity is a religion and anyone speaking against it or raising questions about it has committed blasphemy and must be punished to the fullest extent. What a sick mental illness and false religion the West has fallen to! Complete suicide of the west all so they can worship this fake religion.
It would be accurate if they simply called it that.
“Ministry of Truth”
I’m ethnically half-Irish, and was raised Catholic. Irish are clannish, and strongly orthodox. They love to talk and argue, but they do not like having their assumptions challenged. Land of poets and saints, not philosophers or scientific pioneers.
White Supremacy is such a powerful demon, it can inhibit black students from learning, even when every teacher and school administrator is black. It can even force black men to kill other blacks.
Why did you steal that car and shoot that cop, Leroy?
I didn't want to! White Supremacy made me do it!
This is all so 1984ish. All the world’s governments are looking to censor speech and going after “disinformation”. But hey, they get to determine what is and isn’t “disinformation” so no worries, it will all be on the up and up! We will always get the truth and be free to speak our minds...yeah right!
And al. Of asunder after many many years of getting along g just fine with free speech, governments feel the need to police free speech and clamp down on conservative thoughts and expressions (and thatnis exactly what they mean by “misinformation”)
There has zlways been misinformation , and folks ha died it just fine- but now the govnerment thinks people are too stupid to distinguish truth from fiction, so they want to dictate who sees what by clamping down on free speech.
Gee, how swell of them to have all of our Interests in mind. (Now the left can say a ything they like, and if anyone disputes their lies with facts, the gov can th3n swoop in and arrest the person for “distributing misinformation”
How north Korean of them!
More orwellian garbage.
When the tyrants of the world come for our freedoms, they don’t openly admit their true intentions. They never honestly say to your face, “we’re going to restrict and censor your speech, especially if you say something we disapprove of.” Instead, they’ll claim they’re just trying to stamp out “disinformation” and its supppsed to be for our benefit.
It reminds me of close to the end of the movie, Goodfellas. Gangster Henry Hill has just got busted for trafficking in drugs. Something he was forbidden to do by his gangster bosses. So he did it behind their backs. When caught, his gangster buddies were now looking to kill him because Henry just had become a serious liability to them.
“If you’re part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they’re going to kill you. It doesn’t happen that way. There weren’t any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles. They come as your friends, the people who’ve cared for you all of your life, and they always seem to come at a time when you’re at your weakest and most in need of their help.”
The country where their PM signed a condolence book at the German embassy when Hitler died.
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