Telegraph- EU offered secret deal to censor Twitter, claims Musk
He said: “The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not.
“We look forward to a very public battle in court so that the people of Europe can know the truth.”
I’m back “home” in Canada for a few weeks. Yesterday, I took in all of the activities in Downtown Calgary. It was rather fun. I captured 434 photos and 21 videos. The only “Canada” shirt I have with me on my travels is a black one with this emblazoned on the back. I walked around with it proudly.
Video: After being arrested (but not charged) and having conditions placed on me that prevented my freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, I am now able to go wherever I want as an honorary Canadian To all my detractors, my haters, and supporters of Castro’s illegitimate man baby, have a wonderful day.
Put ’em in a Rights Museum ♫ ♪ ♬
Shortly after Dattani was appointed to lead the [Canadian Human Rights Commission] in mid-June, National Post learned that in 2015 he had shared the stage with a member of an Islamic fundamentalist group and repeatedly lectured during “Israel Apartheid Week” at British universities about the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. According to a Government of Canada factsheet, attempts to boycott and sanction Israel are one of its six core examples of antisemitism.
Shimon Fogel, the long-standing president of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), told the Post that the organization is “deeply concerned” about Dattani’s appointment given that he “has directly associated with individuals and groups affiliated with listed terror entities and has a history of making highly troubling antisemitic statements.” Fogel saw Dattani’s ascension to head the CHRC as underscoring “a crisis of confidence” with the body that “undermines our confidence in the Commission’s ability to adjudicate issues of hate and discrimination.”
Fogel said the controversy calls into question the justice ministry’s vetting process.
No, it doesn’t. He was exactly the kind of diversity hire they were looking for.
How it’s going.
I can vividly recall my frustration at having to see Frances Russell’s and Val Werier’s leftist screeds populating the editorial pages of the Winnipeg Free Press back in the 80s. Fast forward to the present day, where technology continues to level the media playing field, introducing informational symmetry in ways I could not have dreamt of in my youth. But some people remain deeply dissatisfied with that. Apparently, the latest technology is just making us, well, ungovernable.
So, the telephone was great, the postal system was great. Social media is not like those earlier innovations.
They don’t want to see the lion and the Christian making nice; they want the one to kill the other. That’s what Twitter is often like.
I am very concerned that there is no longer any source of authority. There is no trusted authority, there is no way to find consensus on truth. It seems that the truth-seeking mechanisms, including the courts, came up with the answer that the last presidential election in the U.S. was not stolen. But there’s no real way to spread that around to the large portion of society that believes that it was.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and they give you fair warning*, “…either you or your head must be off.”
I am here today because OfCom, the media watchdog agency, concluded that my presentation of information from scientific reports about the Pfizer injection, on Mark Steyn’s TV show in October 2022, caused “harm.” Ofcom also referred to me in public documents as a “conspiracy theorist,” using that discrediting characterization of my work, as part of its decision to penalize Steyn for airing the show in which I brought forth the evidence I did.
I wish to describe to the court please the nature of the evidence I presented on GBNews. I then wish to describe my credentials, and lastly, I wish to make some points about the history of censorship.
Mark Steyn: Trials and Tribulations
“I’ve just flown in from California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.” – Bob Hope
I always thought Canada already had laws against uttering threats, but it seems the Quebec provincial legislature thought that elected officials needed more wiggle room on that score. It’s anyone’s guess how much of a field day the courts will have enforcing it. Like our constitutional rights, everything hinges on one weasel word: reasonable.
The new Act makes anyone who hinders the exercise of an elected officer’s functions by threatening,
intimidating or harassing the officer in a manner that causes them to reasonably fear for their integrity or safety liable to a fine.Anyone who hinders the exercise of a Member’s functions by threatening, intimidating or harassing the Member in a manner that causes them to reasonably fear for their integrity or safety is liable to a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,500.
If you want to download the whole PDF document, here’s the link.
Probably no one person or group in the Twitter Files was impacted in more different ways by new quasi-secret digital enforcement mechanisms than [Brandon] Straka and #WalkAway. Two U.S.-government-funded organizations, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the U.K.-based Global Disinformation Index, became sources for a USA Today claim that the group was among “73 U.S.-based hate groups” and “insurrectionists” who “had access to at least 54 means of raising money online.” Straka at the time had been charged in connection with his presence outside the January 6th Capitol riots, but not convicted. He was blocked by PayPal on March 20th, then Venmo, and ultimately Stripe, Patreon, Constant Contact, MailChimp, Facebook, Instagram and many other companies.
The idea of federally-funded organizations preventing a person from raising money for his own criminal defense against federal charges seemed astonishing. Equally remarkable was USA Today’s behavior. Americans are innocent until proven guilty. We also have an absolute Sixth Amendment right to counsel. But the paper targeted defendants’ efforts to “crowdfund their legal fees,” even claiming it was a kind of scandal that they’d been forced — by people like their own reporters! — to “spring from one fundraising tool to another, utilizing new sites, usernames and accounts” […]
Straka and #WalkAway in other words provide an early test case in the incredible range of state-aided or state-administered punishments that can be piled on someone before they’re convicted of a crime. He ended up sentenced to a class B misdemeanor, essentially for being at the Capitol on January 6th, receiving a 30-page sentencing recommendation. I polled defense lawyers last year and asked if they’d ever seen a 30-page sentencing recommendation for disorderly conduct before. “Fuck no,” laughed one, before quickly stopping and checking, “Wait, we’re not using names with this, right?”
Zerohedge: Aussie Government Fails To Force Elon Musk’s X To Censor Content
Garry Kasparov Resigns from Aspen Institute Commission, Compares it to Soviet Committee.
On April 22, 2021, the Aspen Institute — an influential civil society group that draws funding from several federal agencies and in recent years has become an odd hodge-podge of boutique-left ideas and hardcore security-state rhetoric — announced that a “Commission on Information Disorder” would be preparing a major report, one that: Aims to identify and prioritize the most critical sources and causes of information disorder and deliver a set of short-term actions and longer-term goals to help government, the private sector, and civil society respond to this modern-day crisis of faith in key institutions.
In the normal run of things, if a very senior judge instructs you to give an assurance to their Court, it would probably not be wise to avoid giving the assurance, to devote a huge amount of text to trying to obscure the fact you have not given the assurance, and then to lecture the judge on why they were wrong to ask for the assurance in the first place.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and raising the flag ain’t what it used to be;
How did the UK military evade the ban on spying on UK citizens? A whistleblower from the 77th Brigade, who spoke to Big Brother Watch on condition of anonymity, said it did so by pretending that the British citizens who UK soldiers were spying upon could, perhaps, be foreigners
“To skirt the clear legal issues with a military unit monitoring domestic dissent,” the whistleblower told us, “the leading view was that unless a profile explicitly stated their real name and nationality, which is, of course, vanishingly rare, they could be a foreign agent and were fair game to flag up.”
By “flag up,” the whistleblower referred to the process by which UK government officials sent content to social media companies that they thought should be censored.
Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn (29:57) – like somebody in Canada went ‘what if we try East Germany again with way better tech’ and they came up with this thing
The Lancet Publishes CDC Studies on Misinformation, Hoping You Forgot The Lancet and CDC Spread Pandemic Misinformation
If I had a dime for every time I found something “hard to listen to” I’d be a billionaire. That said, Mao’s Little Red Guards were out in full force in Dauphin when, God forbid, a school trustee expressed his opinions on the residential school system. I’m sure the anti-racism struggle session that followed his remarks must have been a real treat.
A school trustee in western Manitoba is facing calls to resign, and the province says it’s launching a review, after a presentation in which he made comments decried as hateful, including questioning the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools.
The trustee also said reference to white privilege is a “racist comment” because groups shouldn’t be labelled based on the colour of their skin, and argued acronyms such as BIPOC and LGBTQ are “degrading.”
Wikipedia had to censor its encyclopedia to make it more free.
The best thing about this is how benevolent it all is. You feel like a two year old child listening to mother about why not to eat candy because it will rot your teeth. And how they’ll take away your cap gun and spaceman helmet so that you won’t get white male ideas.
