Posted on 11/03/2021 4:48:34 AM PDT by Mount Athos
After “tackling” – some say disastrously for online speech – the topics of US elections and Covid by promoting content that is considered “authoritative” and suppressing, to various degrees, everything else, Facebook, Twitter, and Google are further narrowing the space for their users’ free expression.
These enormous digital squares, the social platforms-turned-approved speech enforcers will now add climate change to the list of issues discussions about which are strictly controlled and censored, when information users post or share clashes with the giants’ idea of what’s true and what’s false.
Media like Axios already have something akin to a pejorative for those who happen not to be on board the current climate change narrative – their stance is described as “climate denialism.”
And as the elites are gathering in Glasgow, Scotland for the UN-sponsored COP26 summit, tech giants who operate some of the biggest social media platforms on the planet are using the opportunity to “finally” fall in line and contribute with the best (or the worst, depending on your point of view) they have to offer – censorship, and manipulation of content visibility and reach.
You might have heard of the dystopian concept of “pre-crime” and now Twitter writes on the company blog that it is introducing something called “pre-bunk” – it will be a way for it to try to mould its users’ opinion on the subject by inundating their explore tab, trending lists, and search results with content promoting climate change as a legitimate theory, that comes from “authoritative” sources.
Other than trying very hard to steer users in the desired direction, Twitter will (for now at least”) not actively censor what it sees as “climate change misinformation.”
Facebook also relies on whatever it decides is “authoritative climate information” to work towards the same goal, a post on its blog revealed. The giant set up something called the Climate Science Center in 2020, and is now starting to add “informational labels to some posts on climate change directing people to the Climate Science Center to find out more.”
Google and its YouTube platform went much further when they last month said that “climate deniers” would be demonetized.
Google and its YouTube platform went much further when they last month said that “climate deniers” would be demonetized.
I have plenty of Oklahoma “misinformation” for those elitist asswipes. The coldest temperature ever recorded in Oklahoma was on February 10, 2011. Oklahoma City had its earliest ever hard freeze in 2012. “Climate change” is supposed to turn Oklahoma into a “desert,” but 2015 was the wettest year on record. Parts of the Sooner State got snow on Labor Day 2020. We had an ice storm in the Oklahoma City area before Halloween, virtually unheard of. Macomb had a low of -17, the coldest since 1899 and a tie for the coldest ever recorded in this part of the state.
We, the People, need to de-monetize The Digital Industry, especially Facebook, Twitter, Google, and the rest who try to profit from their politics. I will not access any of them.
Go to Locals.com, founded by David Rubin, Dan Bongino, and a bunch of freedom lovers.
BTW, Global warming is a scam.
What was/is the correct temperature for the planet?
A) Current status?
B) When it was warm enough for there to be grass and trees in Greenland and Antarctica (currently under the Ice sheets)?
C) Either of the many Ice Ages when our country was covered by up to two miles of ice?
What ever the above choice, how will paying additional taxes stop the inevitable?
-— Discuss -—
Climate change “misinformation” will be defined as anything that goes against, or even merely fails to support, the agenda-driven message. That message being fear based, the sky is falling, but by giving liberal fascists more money and power, and by your sacrifice (certainly not the elites’ sacrifice of anything) we can stop this. Hurry, act now before it is too late! ... That’s the only message and “information” that will be allowed. Similar to the virus/vaccine message. The virus must be characterized as terrible and extremely dangerous and fear-inspiring. The vaccines must be mentioned only in a positive light with no risks, no downside, and the mandates regarded as our saving grace and duty for the glory of the state. Ok, might have gotten a litte ahead on that last one. Anyway, everything else is tagged with a link to dire warnings about misinformation and links to “real” information supporting the party line.
We just need a Law passed by Congress requiring ALL Internet Technology Companies use 100% Green, Non-Carbon Emitting, Renewable Energy.
Show us how it is done
And big tech was told to do this by its masters, the democrats.
Absolutely.
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