Posted on 12/02/2022 11:36:45 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
The censorship-loving government has a direct line to the tech giant.
New Zealand’s government has officially admitted that it has partner access to Facebook’s controversial content takedown portal.
This portal is designed specifically for government agencies to flag content to Facebook for censorship. According to The Intercept, which reported on the portal in October, government partners can also use the portal to “report disinformation directly” to Facebook.
And in a recent response to a New Zealand Official Information Act (OIA) request, which asked whether the government has partner access to Facebook’s takedown portal, the New Zealand government confirmed that the Department of Internal Affairs has access. While this was the only government department that was confirmed to have access to the portal, the OIA response also said “we cannot advise if any other government agency has access to the takedown portal.”
We obtained a copy of the OIA response for you here.
The OIA response didn’t detail how much content had been censored via this Facebook takedown portal. However, other reports on similar types of backdoor content takedown arrangements between governments and Big Tech have shown that governments regularly use them to target legal content such as parody accounts, accounts questioning the effectiveness of Covid vaccines, and so-called election misinformation.”
Publicly, the New Zealand government has endorsed the censorship of legal content with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying “disinformation” should be regulated like guns, bombs, and nuclear weapons. Big Tech companies have also agreed to a censorship pact in the country where they suppress “misinformation” and “harmful content.”
Most other governments haven’t admitted that they have access to these portals. However, last year The White House did admit that the United States (US) Surgeon General’s Office is flagging posts for Facebook to censor.
The Intercept’s report on this Facebook content takedown portal claimed that several other United States (US) government agencies have access to the portal, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Documents released as part of 2021 lawsuits suggest that the California Secretary of State’s Office of Elections Cybersecurity (OEC) also has access to the Facebook takedown portal and a similar type of portal on Twitter.
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Thought Police.
Who polices the thought police? Super secret thought police.
Who polices them, though?
Direct First Amendment violation if in USA.
People need to go to jail.
Fascism of the coportaism variety. The worldwide Left needs to control, u.e. stop, information which would lead to their loss of power.
Our Founders would be burning bodies by now.
The US isn’t the only country now controlled by its Deep State.
It’s time to repeal the 17th Amendment because that’s the foundation that the uniparty is built on.
Far too much power is now concentrated in the political parties and the Washington DC establishment as well as large donors.
The senior executive service is the Deep state, and with no check and balance on the Senate, we now have a corrupted judiciary.
Prior to the 17th Amendment the governor of your state put forth a candidate for the US Senate, your State Senator and local State Representative voted on your behalf; look at the current US Senate do you really think 88% of those dolts, spork-weasaly, dirty scumbags would pass muster at your local state capital?
It’s time for a Convention of states with two line items: one, repeal the 17th Amendment and two eliminate the senior executive service. That will restore our Republic and a lot of what we’re seeing today will shake out over time. Our Founding Father’s were not stupid
Is Facebook still a thing ? LOL
Indeed.
We need a huge MAGA ATLAS Shrugged and walk away from FB in masse! We are financing our own demise.
Plus the 16th, 19th and trim back the ‘commerce clause’ to it’s original meaning and not what the commiecrats inflated it to mean. Oh, and delete those non-constitutional departments they weren’t given the authority to have.
Why do the Kiwis put up with that horse faced dictator running the country? They need to grow a pair and take back their country.
Yes now the news of how the election was stolen it’ fun to see the stooges who say the election was honest one eye lid twitches and a eye brow twitch and move along asap.
She is their Trudeau!
It’s one of the features of parliamentary governance - coalition government! A dangerous moron can be kept in power long after its “sell by” date if they can strike the right parliamentary deals. Just think if we had had parliamentary government, we would have had years and years of Pelosi as PM!
Also, NZ is very socialist in its politics just like Australia. Labor hasn’t discredited itself there like in the UK (As also have the Tories!) Look at her background, she was elected “President of International Union of Socialist Youth On 30 January 2008, at 27. Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) at their world congress in the Dominican Republic for a two-year term until 2010”.
Remember a previous female NZ PM back in the 1980s wouldn’t let USN ships dock unless they declared whether they were nuclear armed or not. That one almost wrecked the WWII era ANZUS agreement. (Maybe it’s time to let it go!)
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