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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: New Zealand's PM Wants More Online Censorship For The War InUkraine
Published: 2022-09-29
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77OQ-lp0JIg
Title: New Zealand's PM Wants More Online Censorship For The War InUkraine
Published: 2022-09-29
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77OQ-lp0JIg
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New Zealand's PM wants more online censorship for the war in Ukraine New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda adarn continued her Crusade for the expansion of Internet censorship during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday this time using the war in Ukraine whether it's climate trade Health crises or seeking peaceful solutions to war and conflict New Zealand has always been a believer in multilateral tools2/15
aderon told the assembly adding that without reform we risk irrelevancy there is perhaps no greater example of this than Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Aaron said let us all be clear Russia's war is illegal it is immoral it is a direct attack on the U.N Charter and the International rules-based System and everything that this community should stand for Putin's suggestion that it could at any point3/15
deploy further weapons that it has at their disposal reveals the false narrative that they have based their Invasion on what country who claims to be a liberator threatens to annihilate the very civilians they claim to liberate this war is based on a lie later in Her speech Darren returns to the theme that Russia's war is based on a lie to argue for the censorship of online4/15
speech which supports the idea that Russia is fighting for legitimate reasons in Ukraine using the 2019 Christchurch attack as a segue to talk about the Perils of online radicalization adarn then smoothly transitions to the subject of Miss and disinformation on the internet this will also be important in understanding more about myths and disinformation online a challenge that we must As Leaders address adarn said As Leaders5/15
we are rightly concerned that even those most light touch approaches to disinformation could be misinterpreted as being hostile to the values of free speech we value so highly adarn added an acknowledgment of the Grave human rights concerns inherent in having leaders participate in the regulation of public speech but while I cannot tell you today what the answer is to this challenge I can say with complete6/15
certainty that we cannot ignore it to do so poses an equal threat to the Norms we all value then it gets creepier after all how do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal but Noble ask the prime minister how do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists how do you7/15
ensure the human rights of others are upheld while they are subjected to hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology the weapons may be different but the goals of those who perpetuate them is the same to cause chaos and reduce the ability of others to defend themselves to disband communities to collapse the Collective Strength of countries who work together but we have an opportunity here to ensure that8/15
these particular weapons of war do not become an established part of warfare adarna's remarks are currently getting a lot of criticism in right-wing circles due largely to her suggestion that online discourse about climate change needs to be regulated so that the issue can be properly addressed and so be sure that is an absolutely insane thing for her to say I believe climate change is real and9/15
anthropogenic but I find the idea of silencing people who disagree with me about that unthinkably nightmarish this is a line of thinking that can only arise from a profoundly tyrannical mind but what isn't getting enough attention at this time is the fact that adern is calling for an increase in the already outrageous amount of online censorship we are seeing with regard to the war in Ukraine10/15
she explicitly said the war is based on a lie and then went on to argue that people need to be stopped from circulating speech which lends credibility to that lie even if such freakishly authoritarian measures may be misinterpreted as being hostile to free speech I Darren argues that online speech claiming that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is legal and Noble makes it harder to attain peace11/15
but of course she doesn't really believe that and neither does anyone else the idea that free speech about the war could somehow hamper peace negotiations between governments is self-evidently absurd and completely nonsensical in reality this war is just the latest in a string of excuses we've been given by the Western political media class to censor the internet with earlier justifications including covid-19 election security domestic extremism12/15
and Russian propaganda again after the 2016 U.S election but asserting that that it's important to stop people from thinking wrong thoughts about a war is a major escalation from those other justifications because they're no longer pretending that it's being done for our own good our wrong think is the justification in and of itself which is a problem because this is in fact in an extremely dangerous13/15
proxy war being waged against Russia by the U.S and its Imperial member states it was absolutely provoked it's showing no sign of ending anytime soon and its continual escalation threatens the life of everyone on this planet the US has lied about every war it has ever been involved in and if ever there was a war to bring scrutiny and skepticism to it's the one that is14/15
bringing us closer to a nuclear exchange than at any other time in history this notion that it is the job of leaders to involve themselves in regulating the ideas and information we're allowed to share with each other online needs to be stomped out dissolved in acid and flushed down the toilet that's not their place they shouldn't even be looking in that direction much less talking amongst