UN Unveils Plan Pushing Worldwide Internet Censorship
Sept 27, 2015 9:43:36 GMT -6
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Post by AnteBellum on Sept 27, 2015 9:43:36 GMT -6
Sorry if this thread looks a bit messy, I'm still working things out here.
I am posting this mainly because I believe all of us on the internet should read and know what's soon going to happen - of course, for our own good again!
Our one safe haven of freedom is slowly becoming smaller and smaller and in this NWO or Nanny State, we will all be liable and thus condemned for our very words.
Link to ZeroHedge
"For the Protection of Women and Girls", I want you all to remember that statement. A statement that sounds increasingly similar to the rest of the daily rhetoric we all seem to be bombarded with constantly now. But that really is the trick isn't it. To say something over and over and over again until even if you don't believe it or agree, somewhere down the line a situation will occur and you will go - Ah Ha, they were right! Then comes in the important part of the equation Control. With it wars can be launched, products can be sold and YOUR blood, sweat and tears will be offered up without so much as a shrug.
I'm not religious folks, nor am I politically motivated - I despise both equally. Truth be, I'm a pragmatic agnostic that believes the country in which I live is the greatest country ever created. The problem is financial gains and capitalism has become larger then the government it is supposed to serve under. This has put corporate decisions above politics and with that our Constitution, our Bill of Rights has been reduced to a sad form in the USA's HR Handbook of Standards.
Most of us here know this and are trapped by it, I am one of you. I've seen the true colors of the world through this transparent idea called the internet. I often wonder now if we would be discussing 9/11 conspiracies which I'm sure Bld.#7 was deliberately demolished, the Middle East problems created for the future financial war against China/Russia, the Assad/ISIS/US/Israel disaster they created for a pipeline to punish Russia further, the economic warfare instituted on its own citizens for over a century to keep the military industrial complex oiled and running.
Would we know any of this if it wasn't for the internet?
All the great movements are coming out now since its introduction, it was just a matter of time before they attacked it just like they did with publishers when printing presses created the first newspapers, radio when announcers started issuing the news or networks when TV became popular, you guessed it now we are here and I'm sorry to say, again we will lose this fight.
That's the real irony of all this, I'm a skeptic when it comes to trends but right now I'm seeing the writing on the wall.
If tptb lose control = war = population control = hold on their money and power
If tptb maintain control = increase consumerism = lots of money and power = continue toward complete hegemony
It always seems to bounce back and forth between these two plans but who is in command?
I won't insult you with petty claims that I know who it is, I don't, but I really hope someday I do get to meet them. . .
I really do hope these are not the only choices left on the table for the lives of my 2 small children, your children and all our future grandchildren.
AB
I am posting this mainly because I believe all of us on the internet should read and know what's soon going to happen - of course, for our own good again!
Our one safe haven of freedom is slowly becoming smaller and smaller and in this NWO or Nanny State, we will all be liable and thus condemned for our very words.
The United Nations has disgraced itself immeasurably over the past month or so.
In case you missed the following stories, I suggest catching up now:
The UN’s “Sustainable Development Agenda” is Basically a Giant Corporatist Fraud
Not a Joke – Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel
Fresh off the scene from those two epic embarrassments, the UN now wants to tell governments of the world how to censor the internet. I wish I was kidding.
From the Washington Post:
On Thursday, the organization’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development released a damning “world-wide wake-up call” on what it calls “cyber VAWG,” or violence against women and girls. The report concludes that online harassment is “a problem of pandemic proportion” — which, nbd, we’ve all heard before.
But the United Nations then goes on to propose radical, proactive policy changes for both governments and social networks, effectively projecting a whole new vision for how the Internet could work.
Under U.S. law — the law that, not coincidentally, governs most of the world’s largest online platforms — intermediaries such as Twitter and Facebook generally can’t be held responsible for what people do on them. But the United Nations proposes both that social networks proactively police every profile and post, and that government agencies only “license” those who agree to do so.
People are being harassed online, and the solution is to censor everything and license speech? Remarkable.
How that would actually work, we don’t know; the report is light on concrete, actionable policy. But it repeatedly suggests both that social networks need to opt-in to stronger anti-harassment regimes and that governments need to enforce them proactively.
At one point toward the end of the paper, the U.N. panel concludes that “political and governmental bodies need to use their licensing prerogative” to better protect human and women’s rights, only granting licenses to “those Telecoms and search engines” that “supervise content and its dissemination.”
So we’re supposed to be lectured about human rights from an organization that named Saudi Arabia head of its human rights panel? Got it.
Regardless of whether you think those are worthwhile ends, the implications are huge: It’s an attempt to transform the Web from a libertarian free-for-all to some kind of enforced social commons.
This U.N. report gets us no closer, alas: all but its most modest proposals are unfeasible. We can educate people about gender violence or teach “digital citizenship” in schools, but persuading social networks to police everything their users post is next to impossible. And even if it weren’t, there are serious implications for innovation and speech: According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, CDA 230 — the law that exempts online intermediaries from this kind of policing — is basically what allowed modern social networks (and blogs, and comments, and forums, etc.) to come into being.
If we’re lucky, perhaps the Saudi religious police chief (yes, they have one) who went on a rampage against Twitter a couple of years ago, will be available to head up the project.
What a joke.
In case you missed the following stories, I suggest catching up now:
The UN’s “Sustainable Development Agenda” is Basically a Giant Corporatist Fraud
Not a Joke – Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel
Fresh off the scene from those two epic embarrassments, the UN now wants to tell governments of the world how to censor the internet. I wish I was kidding.
From the Washington Post:
On Thursday, the organization’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development released a damning “world-wide wake-up call” on what it calls “cyber VAWG,” or violence against women and girls. The report concludes that online harassment is “a problem of pandemic proportion” — which, nbd, we’ve all heard before.
But the United Nations then goes on to propose radical, proactive policy changes for both governments and social networks, effectively projecting a whole new vision for how the Internet could work.
Under U.S. law — the law that, not coincidentally, governs most of the world’s largest online platforms — intermediaries such as Twitter and Facebook generally can’t be held responsible for what people do on them. But the United Nations proposes both that social networks proactively police every profile and post, and that government agencies only “license” those who agree to do so.
People are being harassed online, and the solution is to censor everything and license speech? Remarkable.
How that would actually work, we don’t know; the report is light on concrete, actionable policy. But it repeatedly suggests both that social networks need to opt-in to stronger anti-harassment regimes and that governments need to enforce them proactively.
At one point toward the end of the paper, the U.N. panel concludes that “political and governmental bodies need to use their licensing prerogative” to better protect human and women’s rights, only granting licenses to “those Telecoms and search engines” that “supervise content and its dissemination.”
So we’re supposed to be lectured about human rights from an organization that named Saudi Arabia head of its human rights panel? Got it.
Regardless of whether you think those are worthwhile ends, the implications are huge: It’s an attempt to transform the Web from a libertarian free-for-all to some kind of enforced social commons.
This U.N. report gets us no closer, alas: all but its most modest proposals are unfeasible. We can educate people about gender violence or teach “digital citizenship” in schools, but persuading social networks to police everything their users post is next to impossible. And even if it weren’t, there are serious implications for innovation and speech: According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, CDA 230 — the law that exempts online intermediaries from this kind of policing — is basically what allowed modern social networks (and blogs, and comments, and forums, etc.) to come into being.
If we’re lucky, perhaps the Saudi religious police chief (yes, they have one) who went on a rampage against Twitter a couple of years ago, will be available to head up the project.
What a joke.
"For the Protection of Women and Girls", I want you all to remember that statement. A statement that sounds increasingly similar to the rest of the daily rhetoric we all seem to be bombarded with constantly now. But that really is the trick isn't it. To say something over and over and over again until even if you don't believe it or agree, somewhere down the line a situation will occur and you will go - Ah Ha, they were right! Then comes in the important part of the equation Control. With it wars can be launched, products can be sold and YOUR blood, sweat and tears will be offered up without so much as a shrug.
I'm not religious folks, nor am I politically motivated - I despise both equally. Truth be, I'm a pragmatic agnostic that believes the country in which I live is the greatest country ever created. The problem is financial gains and capitalism has become larger then the government it is supposed to serve under. This has put corporate decisions above politics and with that our Constitution, our Bill of Rights has been reduced to a sad form in the USA's HR Handbook of Standards.
Most of us here know this and are trapped by it, I am one of you. I've seen the true colors of the world through this transparent idea called the internet. I often wonder now if we would be discussing 9/11 conspiracies which I'm sure Bld.#7 was deliberately demolished, the Middle East problems created for the future financial war against China/Russia, the Assad/ISIS/US/Israel disaster they created for a pipeline to punish Russia further, the economic warfare instituted on its own citizens for over a century to keep the military industrial complex oiled and running.
Would we know any of this if it wasn't for the internet?
All the great movements are coming out now since its introduction, it was just a matter of time before they attacked it just like they did with publishers when printing presses created the first newspapers, radio when announcers started issuing the news or networks when TV became popular, you guessed it now we are here and I'm sorry to say, again we will lose this fight.
That's the real irony of all this, I'm a skeptic when it comes to trends but right now I'm seeing the writing on the wall.
If tptb lose control = war = population control = hold on their money and power
If tptb maintain control = increase consumerism = lots of money and power = continue toward complete hegemony
It always seems to bounce back and forth between these two plans but who is in command?
I won't insult you with petty claims that I know who it is, I don't, but I really hope someday I do get to meet them. . .
I really do hope these are not the only choices left on the table for the lives of my 2 small children, your children and all our future grandchildren.
AB
