Big Tech spent two years censoring much-needed debate about covid-related measures like lockdowns and masking; anyone who didn’t parrot the “approved science” was banned, shut down, locked out. Now that the CDC is saying the same thing the “disinformation spreaders” and wrongthinkers have been saying all along, it’s suddenly okay to question the efficacy of cloth masks, etc.
Climate alarmists apparently got thrills up their legs at the censorship potential for their pet cause and have been calling for information sharing and public debate to be censored just as aggressively as the truth was censored during the height of the pandemic fear porn onslaught.
The targets for this latest call for censorship are the usual suspects: Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter (Tik Tok is also included).
USA Today “reports” (archive link):
Climate change falsehoods, hoaxes and conspiracy theories are still prevalent on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube despite pledges to crack down, a new report says.Social media posts and videos denying climate change, disputing its causes, or underplaying its effects not only can still be found on these platforms, they are often missing warning labels or links to credible information, according to Advance Democracy, a research organization that studies misinformation.Climate scientists say they’re frustrated by the lack of progress in stemming the tide of climate change misinformation. For years, they’ve urged social media companies to identify, flag and take down the misinformation and the accounts that spread it.
This Advance Democracy outfit doesn’t appear to have published this double-top secret report on its website, but it does pledge to investigate “entities undermining the global consensus on climate change through financial corruption, clandestine front-groups, social media influence operations, disinformation, vexatious litigation, lobbying, and front-facing public relations activity.”
“Undermining the global consensus” is bad, it must be stopped, the correctness of the (nonexistent) ‘global consensus‘ cannot be challenged. Why not? If it’s true, why can’t it stand up to debate, why can’t it be challenged or questioned? What is this new “science” that is all-knowing and has all the answers already, to the extent that it no longer needs to ask any questions or permit any to be asked?
These climate alarmists don’t really care about science, of course. They are not calling for more information, more studies, more access to data for the general public. They just want to scream “Shutup, shutup, shutup!” and have Big Tech do their bidding in censoring anything—up to and including opinions and research conducted by scientists in climate-related fields—that “undermines” their preferred narrative.
Media keeps using questionable “research,” and Big Tech may soon be using it to step up its censorship of yet another topic of discussion and debate.
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