The government won't even tell us what the heard when the asked Canadians about this the last time it was in the works.
I for one don't trust the government (or YouTube) with power to deem that certain facts are not true, as there is every reason to believe what is deemed true might change with the winds of public opinion.
To control information, and influence public opinion.
For example, with the trucker protest right now, all the mainstream media outlets have been very critical of the protests, describing them as violent, racist, homophobic, and so on. Conversely, almost everything I've read from people who've been there in person has been that the protests are peaceful, with a party atmosphere.
I don't believe the opinions on the trucker convoy would be nearly the same if the media was reporting what was going on. It makes me look at past protests -- such as Occupy Wall Street -- differently.
With the mainstream media in line (or, in stronger terms, with the decimation of the fourth estate), there are still people using wrongthink -- people speaking on social media. Clearly, that has to be dealt with. Wrongthink must not be allowed!
We've already seen how the major social media platforms are disallowing freedom of thought and speech in the name of protecting people from misinformation. This is the same problem Joe Rogan is facing -- he interviewed some doctors who said early treatment of Covid makes a big difference, and, rather bearing down with real science which asks questions and looks at the data in different ways, people want to shut him up, denying him the right to his free speech.
I believe that the scientific process was one of the first casualties of the pandemic, and things are looking grim for free speech in Canada.
The headline is nonsense. Several governments, including the US, have pressured YouTube and others to remove covid misinformation. This is a classic constitutional work around, where you get the industry to censor stuff for you, when a censorship law might not hold up in court. The movie and comic book industries were big examples of this in the US.
She's just asking them to actually pass a law, and make clear rules:
> “Our recommendation, if governments want to have more control over online speech is to pass laws to have that be very cleanly and clearly defined so that we can implement it,” Wojcicki said.
> She’s also called for the US government to offer guidance on “hate speech”
The other issue they have to contend with is dealing with countries passing laws that give the executive authority to the administrate law with which ever way the wind blows. In the US once congress grants the executive power on something to administrate law it tends to flip flop on what is enforced every time the other party comes into majority.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 33.0 ms ] threadThe government won't even tell us what the heard when the asked Canadians about this the last time it was in the works.
I for one don't trust the government (or YouTube) with power to deem that certain facts are not true, as there is every reason to believe what is deemed true might change with the winds of public opinion.
Why do you imagine governments or YouTube might want to do that?
For example, with the trucker protest right now, all the mainstream media outlets have been very critical of the protests, describing them as violent, racist, homophobic, and so on. Conversely, almost everything I've read from people who've been there in person has been that the protests are peaceful, with a party atmosphere.
Rex Murphy (well known political commentator) talked about it here: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-in-ottawa-the-sk...
Having bailed out the media, the media are very friendly to the government's portrayal of things. (Heres an article from the left and right on the consequences of media bailouts: https://www.canadaland.com/canadian-media-liberals-trudeau-g... and https://westernstandardonline.com/2020/10/how-trudeau-bought... )
I don't believe the opinions on the trucker convoy would be nearly the same if the media was reporting what was going on. It makes me look at past protests -- such as Occupy Wall Street -- differently.
With the mainstream media in line (or, in stronger terms, with the decimation of the fourth estate), there are still people using wrongthink -- people speaking on social media. Clearly, that has to be dealt with. Wrongthink must not be allowed!
We've already seen how the major social media platforms are disallowing freedom of thought and speech in the name of protecting people from misinformation. This is the same problem Joe Rogan is facing -- he interviewed some doctors who said early treatment of Covid makes a big difference, and, rather bearing down with real science which asks questions and looks at the data in different ways, people want to shut him up, denying him the right to his free speech.
I believe that the scientific process was one of the first casualties of the pandemic, and things are looking grim for free speech in Canada.
[1]: https://notthebee.com/article/youtubes-ceo-was-given-a-freed...
She's just asking them to actually pass a law, and make clear rules:
> “Our recommendation, if governments want to have more control over online speech is to pass laws to have that be very cleanly and clearly defined so that we can implement it,” Wojcicki said.
> She’s also called for the US government to offer guidance on “hate speech”