The obsession with fighting disinformation just takes the safe space university model nationally and internationally. It's become the first resort of echo chamber establishments that have lost the ability to debate because they don't understand how anyone can be allowed to think differently than they do. The only way to protect free speech is through censorship.
The closing of political systems encompasses general principles and specific applications like the Bill of Rights
- An international censorship coalition is growing
- Its purpose is to ensure that the only debate to be allowed anymore will consist of world leaders reading from prepared speeches at the UN General Assembly before returning home to oversee countries where free speech and all freedoms have been eliminated
In New York City, world leaders dodged traffic, deranged panhandlers and the city's unique fall funk to lecture the planet about their views at the United Nations General Assembly
- Their theme was the threat that "misinformation" or "disinformation" poses to their power.
- Disinformation rapidly became a catch-all term for delegitimizing disagreement on moral grounds using conspiracist fig leaves to depict dissent as an existential threat.
Disinformation charges rapidly move from delegitimization to criminalization
- World leaders like Ardern insist that we could solve problems if people didn't insist on disagreeing with us
- The only way to protect free speech is through censorship
- Only by destroying free speech can we save it
The War on Disinformation
- It brings together totalitarians from across the world who don't agree on anything except that different opinions are a threat to their regimes
- The rejection of debate is the ultimate in illiberalism
- Speech isn't just good speech, it's all speech
- If the only legitimate kind of free speech is truthful, good or fair, that's just censorship with lipstick
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