Censorship Industrial Complex
New Australian law, if passed, will make the gov’t the sole arbiter of truth’
From LifeSiteNews
By David James
The main purpose of the legislation is to silence critics of the Australian government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis. What they have done instead is demonstrate that Australia does not have adequate protection for free speech, nor is it a democracy.
In a crushing blow to free speech in Australia, the lower house of federal parliament has passed an amendment, known as the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill, to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992. It imposes obligations on digital communications platform providers to prevent the dissemination of content “that contains information that is reasonably verifiable as false, misleading or deceptive, and is reasonably likely to cause or contribute to serious harm of a specified type (misinformation and disinformation).”
Several dissenting politicians have expressed outrage and incredulity at the legislative move. Nola Marino, a member of the right-wing opposition Liberal Party said that she did not think that Australia, a liberal democratic society, would ever be “debating a bill that is explicitly designed to censor and silence the Australian people.”
National Party member Keith Pitt described the legislation as a “yawning chasm that is incredibly … dangerous to this country.” He expressed shock that the amendment was being put forward, adding that Western democracies such as Australia have been built on freedom of expression and freedom of religion. Such principled objections were ignored, however. The legislation now has only to pass in the Senate (the upper house) to become law.
The first and most obvious criticism of the law is that it puts the government authority, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in the ridiculous position of deciding what is and isn’t “false” information. That is not only absurd – how could ACMA, for example make judgements on subjects like vaccines or viruses – it means that the law cannot be applied universally.
Governments routinely put out false information, arguably more often than they put out true information. Will they be penalized? Of course not. Advertisers present information that is false. Will they fall under his law? No. It will only be directed at people who are saying things that the government does not like, especially in relation to health policy. It is politics, not law.
When governments distort the law for political ends, it inevitably ends up in badly crafted legislation, and that is what has happened here. The law depends for its integrity on clear semantics, words whose definition is clear. But two key words, “misinformation” and “disinformation” are misleading at best.
They are variants of the word “information”; the prefixes “dis” and “mis” have been added to create the impression that what is at issue is objective truth (“information” being something objectively observable). It is a diversion. What is happening instead is that the law will target the intent of the writers.
Disinformation is defined as information that is “intended” to mislead and to cause harm. With misinformation there is no such intent; it is just an error, but even there it requires determining what is in the author’s mind. The aim is to outlaw thinking that is not congruent with the governments’ official position.
Determining a writer’s or speaker’s intent is all but impossible, however, because we cannot get into another person’s mind, only speculate on the on their motivations. Thus, someone who produces content that is deemed to be false and have caused damage could say that it was meant as irony, not literally. How is it possible to prove otherwise?
Pointing out this definitional slipperiness could be the basis for an effective rebuttal of the legislation. Courts are very poor at establishing intent.
A second problem: How do we know what meaning the recipients will get? Glance at the comments on social media posts and you will see an extreme array of views, ranging from approbation to intense hostility. To state the obvious, readers think for themselves and inevitably derive different meanings. Anti-disinformation legislation, which is justified as protecting people from bad influences for the common good, is not merely patronizing and infantilizing, it treats citizens as mere machines ingesting data – robots, not humans. It is legislation that is not just aimed at controlling the thoughts of the producers of the content, it is targeted at the thoughts of the recipients: two layers of absurdity. The result would be like targeting the “thought crimes” depicted in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four.
Censorship regimes operate on the assumption that if a sufficient proportion of the available content is skewed towards pushing state propaganda, then the audience will inevitably be persuaded to believe the authorities. But what matters is the quality of the content, not the quantity of the messaging. Repetitious expressions of the government’s preferred narrative eventually become meaningless, while sound analyses will cut through.
The main purpose of the legislation is to silence critics of the Australian government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. The aim is to ensure that in future health authorities and the political class are immune from scrutiny and criticism. It is unlikely to be effective. What they have done instead is demonstrate that Australia does not have adequate protection for free speech, nor is it genuinely a democracy.
Business
Trudeau gov’t threatens to punish tech companies that fail to censor ‘disinformation’
From LifeSiteNews
A report from the House of Commons Heritage Committee claimed that ‘some individuals and groups create disinformation to promote political ideologies including extremist views and conspiracy theories or simply to make money.’
A report from a Canadian federal committee said MPs should enact laws to penalize social media and tech companies that don’t take action to quell so-called “undesirable or questionable” content on the internet.
MPs from the ruling Liberal, New Democratic Party (NDP), and separatists Bloc Québécois party on the House of Commons Heritage Committee summarized their opinions in a report.
“The Government of Canada notes some individuals and groups create disinformation to promote political ideologies including extremist views and conspiracy theories or simply to make money,” reads the report titled Tech Giants’ Intimidation and Subversion Tactics to Evade Regulation in Canada and Globally.
“Disinformation creates ‘doubt and confusion’ and can be particularly harmful when it involves health information,” it continues.
The report notes how such “disinformation” can cause “financial harms as well as political polarization and distrust in key institutions,” adding, “The prevalence of disinformation can be difficult to determine.”
As noted in Blacklock’s Reporter, the report claims that many of Canada’s “major societal harms” have come from “unregulated social media platforms relying on algorithms to amplify content, among them disinformation and conspiracy theories.”
Of note is the committee failed to define what “disinformation” or “conspiracy theories” meant.
Most of the MPs on the committee made the recommendation that Google, Facebook, and other social media platforms, which ironically have at one point or another clamped down on free speech themselves, “put mechanisms in place to detect undesirable or questionable content that may be the product of disinformation or foreign interference and that these platforms be required to promptly identify such content and report it to users.”
“Failure to do so should result in penalties,” the report stated.
As it stands, the federal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has plowed ahead to push laws impacting free speech online.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, Canadian legal group The Democracy Fund (TDF) warned that the Liberal government’s Bill C-63 seeks to further clamp down on online speech and will “weaponize” the nation’s courts to favor the ruling federal party and do nothing but create an atmosphere of “fear.”
Bill C-63 was introduced by Liberal Justice Minister Arif Virani in the House of Commons in February and was immediately blasted by constitutional experts as troublesome.
Jordan Peterson, one of Canada’s most prominent psychologists, recently accused the bill of attempting to create a pathway to allow for “Orwellian Thought Crime” to become the norm in the nation.
Conservative MPs fight back: ‘A government bureaucracy should not regulate content’
Conservative MPs fought back the Heritage Committee’s majority findings and in a Dissenting Report said the committee did not understand what the role of the internet is in society, which is that it should be free from regulation.
“The main report failed to adequately explore the state of censorship in Canada and the role played by tech giants and the current federal government,” the Conservatives wrote in their dissenting report, adding, “Canadians are increasingly being censored by the government and tech giants as to what they can see, hear and say online.”
The Conservative MPs noted that when it comes to the internet, it is “boundless,” and that “Anyone who wants to have a presence on the internet can have one.”
“A government bureaucracy should not regulate which content should be prioritized and which should be demoted,” it noted, adding, “There is space for all.”
LifeSiteNews reported how the Conservative Party has warned that Trudeau’s Bill C-63 is so flawed that it will never be able to be enforced or become known before the next election.
The law calls for the creation of a Digital Safety Commission, a digital safety ombudsperson, and the Digital Safety Office, all tasked with policing internet content.
The bill’s “hate speech” section is accompanied by broad definitions, severe penalties, and dubious tactics, including levying pre-emptive judgments against people if they are feared to be likely to commit an act of “hate” in the future.
Details of the new legislation also show the bill could lead to more people jailed for life for “hate crimes” or fined $50,000 and jailed for posts that the government defines as “hate speech” based on gender, race, or other categories.
Artificial Intelligence
Garbage in = Garbage Out…The issues with censorship and AI.
Yakk Stack Sheldon Yakiwchuk
What happens when you shift from education in the basics – Math, English, Science, Social Studies and health…and shift that to progressive ideologies supporting DEI, Transgenderism, Climate Alarmism and Social Justice?
We’re seeing it.
A world full of neurotic nut cases, screeching at the top of their fingertips on the internet…soapboxes in public.
Of the most confused seem to be these people:
Whose fundamental ideologies are in direct conflict with those they are supporting.
But it really doesn’t end there, does it?
Because along with this, we now have generations who’ve been confused into thinking that this is a healthy lifestyle…
Censorship on science has led us to believe that:
Eggs are bad – when they are almost the most perfect food;
Meat Causes Cancer – where it is the foundation of fitness, nutrition and energy for our bodies;
Margarine is preferred over Butter – where it turns out that hydrogenated seed oils are ten times more likely to cause heart disease than standard fats…
The list goes on.
Misinformation promotion and true information censorship, really isn’t that new of a concept…but with the onset and increasing use of AI technologies, will become an even larger detriment to the fabric of our education and understanding.
Throughout the last 4 years…we’ve never seen more rampant attacks on our Freedom of Expression and in sharing knowledge…all to push lies, inflating the risks from COVID, through to lies about the safety and efficacy of the COVID vaccines.
You could be removed, suspended and banned for wrong-speak…and if you’re reading this now, it’s because this is exactly what had happened to me. YakkStack was started out of a need to preserve information that kept being removed from other social media platforms, video streaming services.
After about a year of posting…having seen accounts completely wiped out with no chance of recovery and at the suggestion/guidance from others, had me start an account here…write in longer form and post links along with supporting information.
It’s been an amazing experience, building up a lot of support and spanning the globe with thousands of subscribers and millions of reads/impressions:
With my largest hurdles being…
Trying to keep up with everything &
Trying to remember what I’ve even written or talked about…taking hours to re-research topics I’d already even covered.
There is a fantastic amount of information that we are exposed to on a daily basis…but considering the sources and the selection of language…it’s not all real and definitely not all good.
We hear from the media and progressives about Anti-Trans Legislation…where the legislation is set out not much different than other legislation to protect children from making harmful decisions that are irreversible. In Canada, you cannot smoke cigarettes nor even buy nicotine products, consume alcohol or even be in establishments (pubs, bars) where serving is their primary function, get a tattoo, vote, join the military…without being being at least 18. Throughout these tender years, you are held in the responsibility of your parents or surrogate guardians in coaching you through these times – so that you don’t make tragic mistakes because your mind isn’t fully developed.
We hear from the media and politicians about Toxic Supply of narcotics, that are still illegal to posses in most provinces…where “Safe Supply”, is the option…&
Where shooting up in public was frowned upon, we now have “Safe Injection Sites”, where the ideas are…
If you provide safer narcotics and support to drug addicts, this will reduce the strain on healthcare and “Save Lives”.
These ideas have led to the deaths of more than 47,000 overdoses throughout the last decade(ish) of progressive liberalism, pushing the fantasy that addicts can recover by feeding them more of what they are addicted to.
It’s nuts!
On this Remembrance Day, looking back at World War 2, there were approximately 44,000 Canadians that died.
47K from Overdoses, marking a 300% increase in drug related deaths since Justin Trudeau has been in office.
We hear about the atrocities committed in Residential Schools – run by the Catholics, where there are supposedly thousands of unmarked graves. We are told that there needs to be “Truth and Reconciliation”, over these deaths…by the same people who’ve been fed Millions of Taxpayer Dollars to investigate, find and recover bodies…where not a single one has been uncovered…
And even if one were…
The vastest majority of the population was either not alive during this period nor did they have anything to do with what may or may not have gone on, in these schools.
We’re being told that denialism of this is racist and could soon become a criminal offence…
By the same people, over the last 4 years, made up the facts…where science could never substantiate, change the definitions on vaccinations and immunity, lie about the statistics to continue on the narrative, create policy around emotion – “if we can only save one life”, have your business deemed ‘Non-Essential’ and closed, worked with social media platforms to have you censored, wanted to see you fired, removed from Employment Insurance that you’d paid a lifetime into, restricted from finding new employment, have your children/grandchildren restricted in extracurricular activities, taxpayer sponsored and affordable tutoring, summer camps and even sitting inside of a McDonalds to have a Happy Meal Combo…because this was another one of the social situations that neither you nor they could be tolerated in…without listening to their instructions and reiterating their lies.
They make up the truth and your only option is to toe the line.
You are supposed to care and understand atrocities that may or may not have happened in residential schools, that began in 1831 – Brantford, Ontario…where and when, throughout this period the reservations were plagued with poverty, virus and firewater – children taken from homes where parents were dead or deathly ill, provided for, fed and educated…when a single body hasn’t been recovered…
While at the same time, forget about what happened to 8 Million Canadians over the last 4 years…Did you or do you know of others who;
- Lost their jobs, savings, businesses and houses?
- Couldn’t visit a loved one in hospital, long-term care or hospice?
- Watched a family member die, alone and afraid, through a window in a bricked up exterior wall of one of these places?
- Miss family celebrations, graduations, birthdays, seasonal holidays, religious holidays, funerals?
- Watch the setback of education in children forced to learn off of a computer or be restricted from colleges or universities, because of their vaccine status?
- Have family and community members break ties with you, because you understood that you were never at risk and didn’t want to become a lab rat?
Tough shit…is what they’re saying…because they control the conversation and with this, you will believe in fiction to erase fact, or you will be punished – because Actions Have Consequences.
Not for those who created and stocked these fires…for YOU!
Certain platforms and search engines – Google being a Prime Example, have shifted their metrics to hide or completely erase information that is available…so when you do a search, you end up with results that are either historically untrue, unsubstantiated or that are deemed content you are allowed to read…where, people such as Bill Gates have already suggested that the internet needs to be cleansed of False Information – False being anything that he decides is false…where this has actually already started to happen.
Read the full article here →Link
But in the first paragraph, you will find some of what we already know:
Instances of censorship are growing to the point of normalization. Despite ongoing litigation and more public attention, mainstream social media has been more ferocious in recent months than ever before. Podcasters know for sure what will be instantly deleted and debate among themselves over content in gray areas. Some like Brownstone have given up on YouTube in favor of Rumble, sacrificing vast audiences if only to see their content survive to see the light of day.
And when you think of where Artificial Intelligence gets it’s information from…you have to appreciate that on your query, you’ll either receive dosed information or inaccurate to the point of absolute lies.
Are Eggs bad to eat?
As per ChatGPT, yes:
Here’s a breakdown of why eggs are sometimes considered “bad” to eat:
1. Cholesterol Content
- High in Cholesterol: Eggs, particularly the yolk, are high in dietary cholesterol. One large egg contains about 186 milligrams of cholesterol, which is more than half of the recommended daily limit for cholesterol intake (300 mg for most people). This has led to concerns that eating eggs could raise LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels in the blood, increasing the risk of heart disease.
- Impact on Heart Health: While some studies suggest that dietary cholesterol has a smaller impact on blood cholesterol levels than previously thought, research has shown that for certain individuals—specifically those who are “hyper-responders”—eating eggs may lead to an increase in LDL cholesterol and may negatively affect heart health.
2. Saturated Fat
- Saturated Fat Content: Eggs contain a small amount of saturated fat, which can raise LDL cholesterol levels when consumed in excess. A large egg has about 1.6 grams of saturated fat. High intake of saturated fat is linked to increased risks of heart disease and stroke, though eggs contribute relatively little to this risk when consumed in moderation.
3. Potential Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
- Some studies have shown a potential link between high egg consumption and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. For example, research suggests that people who eat a lot of eggs (more than 7 eggs per week) may have a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, particularly in older adults. The reason for this is still not fully understood, but it may relate to the combined effects of cholesterol and the presence of certain inflammatory compounds in eggs.
4. Foodborne Illness (Raw or Undercooked Eggs)
- Salmonella Risk: Eggs that are not properly cooked can carry a risk of salmonella infection, which can lead to food poisoning with symptoms like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps. Raw eggs, such as those used in some recipes like homemade mayonnaise or eggnog, pose a higher risk of salmonella, although the overall incidence of contamination has declined with better food safety practices.
- To reduce the risk, it’s advised to avoid raw or undercooked eggs and to buy eggs from a trusted source, preferably pasteurized eggs, which are heat-treated to kill any harmful bacteria.
5. Allergy Concerns
- Egg Allergy: Eggs, particularly egg whites, are a common allergen, especially in children. People with egg allergies may experience a range of symptoms from mild to severe, including skin reactions, respiratory issues, or even anaphylaxis (a life-threatening allergic reaction).
6. Environmental and Ethical Concerns
- Animal Welfare: The production of eggs, particularly from large commercial farms, raises significant ethical concerns related to the treatment of laying hens. Many hens are kept in confined conditions (like battery cages), which restrict their ability to move freely and engage in natural behaviors. This has led many consumers to choose eggs from more humane, free-range, or pasture-raised sources.
- Environmental Impact: Like other animal-based foods, egg production has a carbon footprint and contributes to environmental issues, such as land use, water consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. However, compared to red meat (especially beef), eggs have a smaller environmental impact.
7. Risk of “Overconsumption”
- Excessive Consumption: While eggs are nutritious, consuming them in very large quantities on a regular basis—especially when paired with a diet high in other sources of saturated fat and cholesterol—could contribute to poor heart health over time. The key, as with most foods, is moderation. Consuming 1-2 eggs per day as part of a balanced diet is generally considered safe for most people.
Does red meat cause cancer?
As per ChatGPT:
The link between red meat consumption and cancer risk has been studied extensively, and there is evidence suggesting that eating large amounts of red meat, particularly processed meat, may increase the risk of certain types of cancer, particularly colorectal cancer.
Here are some key points:
1. Red Meat and Cancer Risk
- Red meat generally refers to beef, pork, lamb, and goat meat. It contains compounds like heme iron, which may contribute to cancer risk.
- Studies have shown that consuming large quantities of red meat (especially over long periods) can increase the risk of colorectal cancer. The mechanism is not fully understood, but it may involve the formation of carcinogenic substances during the cooking process (e.g., through grilling, frying, or smoking) or through the breakdown of heme iron, which can produce harmful compounds in the gut.
What makes Margarine a safer alternative:
As per ChatGPT:
Margarine can be considered a safer alternative to butter for several reasons, especially in terms of heart health. The key factors that make margarine a potentially better choice include its fat composition and the way it is typically made, though not all margarines are created equal. Here’s a breakdown of why margarine can be a safer alternative to butter:
1. Lower in Saturated Fat
- Butter is high in saturated fat, which has been linked to increased levels of LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol, also known as “bad” cholesterol. High LDL levels are a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
- Margarine, especially the soft or liquid varieties, tends to have lower levels of saturated fat. Many margarines are made from vegetable oils like canola, sunflower, or soybean oil, which are high in polyunsaturated fats, including omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, which are beneficial for heart health.
You see…
Because of the censorship and information that you are being allowed to view in your research…what was once an amazing tool – the internet, feeding into what should be the next level in educational tools – AI…has become an abomination.
Where your previous reliance on figure heads, politicians and legacy media sources has been decimated through their lies and omissions…
Your new reliance on super brains that have the ability to process more information in mere seconds to summarize…are becoming just as bad.
Consider the source, because as we move on…the issues with AI will be the same censorship as has always been.
They decide the garbage that gets put in…
You’re the one left holding the bag, when it comes out.
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