The 5th Circuit Court of Appeal's rousing defense of our Constitutional 1rst Amendment in upholding the injunction against the federal government (all Executive Branch) exerting influence on social media to hide, misrepresent, or outright lie to the public about important public issues regarding the Covid epidemic and other issues seems a great victory. Not only the public at large, but also social media sites may feel free of the jackboots of governmental control of opinion and discussion. Whether these new media will actually allow such freedoms to its users, aside from recognized unlawful postings, remains to be seen. Legacy media has found it all too profitable to toe certain lines in order to maintain relationships with “newsmakers” and economically or politically powerful organizations. Access to these for content is not guaranteed by the Constitution. Yesterday’s important or off the record source becomes today’s profit producing pundit, until rotating back into the Deep State via election or appointment. Even so, much of our visual legacy media is a small step beyond that pundit’s dead air. Print media languishes in an expanding desert of readership. Unavailability of sources because of merely factual reporting may be the final death knell of that medium. Honesty in representing reality and people’s reactions to that reality ceased to be profitable long ago. “If it bleeds it leads”, and follows, regardless of whether the blood is real, or important. The Supreme Court may ultimately rule that governmental influence on public and private speech, so widely wielded previously by Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, and others, violates the Constitution. But that does not prevent self-censorship by these organizations for the sake of favoritism.
And now they have been given a replacement tool by globalists. As detailed by
in a recent article, the U.N. Development Programme has rolled out “an automated disinformation tool, iVerify..”. While it was initially designed to support election integrity, our globalist utopians couldn't resist the broadest mandate of authority. IVerify is now intended to “provide national actors with a support package to enhance identification, monitoring and response capacity to threats to information integrity.” Note the phrase “national actors”—presumably this includes not only media organizations but also governments. It will be especially useful in those nations unprotected by unalienable rights recognized in foundational law. iVerify will use trained local fact checkers who will unilaterally decide what is true or not, and automated tools will check all media for “toxic” content that will then be adjudicated by teams of those same fact checkers. Does this not sound familiar? iVerify seeks to protect subject populations from”information pollution” which is an overabundance of information the fact checkers deem harmful, useless, or misleading, since it might impact a citizen’s informed decisions. The best way to enable informed decisions is by modifying or withholding information, right?The globalists certainly want to cash in on the exponentially growing new industry of fact-checking and opinion modulation. In simpler times this was called propaganda. Pabst notes many quasi-governmental organizations that have cropped up recently, amongst them the Bill Gates’ Institute for Strategic Dialogue (dialogue as in exchanging information and opinions unfettered by external restraint?), Stop-Fake funded by the National Endowment for Democracy—which she states is a proxy for the CIA (who can only operate within the U.S.A. in violation of U.S. law and its charter), and NewsGuard, a combined effort of Microsoft and the U.S. Departments of State and Defense. These are only a few of the entities based domestically but acting internationally.
The United Nation is not the only globalist Wizard of Oz operating on behalf of the international consilience cartel. The World Health Organization, in addition to conducting a silent takeover of all human activities via One Health in their new WHO-CA “agreement”, will now provide guidance on what medical information should be allowed on social media. As noted by Roman Balmakov , YouTube has immediately and enthusiastically signed on. Others are sure to follow.
Now censorship, for the good of all, can continue under international agency. Media sites of all varieties can now avoid sticky questions of constitutionality. They can cite august international authorities such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization, and refer any complaints to the International Courts at the Hague. Their versions of “the story” will be in the forefront; all others will be mired in the muck of review by unknown and unseen experts elsewhere. This is the most basic tool of what
has expertly detailed as “5th Generation Warfare”. Necessity of free speech (and hearing as noted by Justice Thurgood Marshall) is the mother of freedom in a democratic republic. Utilitarianism seeks the greatest good for the greatest numbers, even at the expense of the few. But as another author has written, "Utility, in contrast to necessity, only exists in degrees and not as a fundamental principle. If one were to start from the principle of utility, it would be possible to continually justify ever more state intervention." We now have a newer and broader definition of what that state is.Missouri V Biden is a tiny battle in human cultural evolution. More broadly we must remember and act upon the true knowledge that "Man ceases to be human when he becomes so convinced of his own ideas that he wants to forbid those of the other..."