My latest in PJ Media:
While the Washington Post piously reminds us that “democracy dies in darkness,” it’s busy shooting out the lights: On Tuesday it published a lengthy call to Facebook to shut down dissident media, including PJ Media, because, you see, the non-Leftist publications are daring to spread “climate change denial” on the platform. Not just democracy, but also the freedom of speech will die in darkness if the Post gets its way.
The Post article focuses upon a newly published study from one of the endless stream of far-Left advocacy groups masquerading as think tanks, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which the Post hastens to assure us is a nonprofit. Of course. What else could it possibly be called?
Disagree with the Leftist establishment about the causes of and/or remedies for climate change, and what else could possibly be your motivation but “hate”? You don’t want to see your country voluntarily impoverish itself and empower the People’s Republic of China in service of unproven assumptions and selective application of accountability? Come on, man! You’re just a bigot!
The CCDH study supposedly shows that “10 publishers, including RT and the Federalist Papers, are responsible for nearly 70 percent of interactions with climate change misinformation on the platform.” The CCDH has labeled these publishers the “Toxic Ten,” and they comprise virtually all of the major dissident platforms operating today: Breitbart, the Western Journal, Newsmax, the Media Research Center, the Washington Times, the Federalist Papers, the Daily Wire, and the Patriot Post, along with Russian State Media (what’s a Leftist conspiracy theory these days without the Russians) and of course Townhall Media, including PJ Media, Townhall, Red State, and Twitchy.
These publications, the Post claims, put out “a broad range of climate disinformation, including articles that undermine the existence or impacts of climate change or misrepresent data in ways that might erode trust in climate science experts.” They’re out there exercising the freedom of speech, utterly heedless of the looming apocalypse: “The study comes amid increasing political concern about the catastrophic impact of climate change, as global leaders gather in Glasgow for the United Nations-brokered COP26, described as the last chance for nations to hammer out a unified plan to significantly cut greenhouse gases.”
The Post hopes that the CCDH report will put an end to all that and bring about still more ideological conformity on Facebook: “While the report doesn’t provide a comprehensive look at all misleading climate change content promoted on Facebook, it has the potential to inspire political action as the CCDH has historically captured policymakers’ attention.”
It notes that the CCDH’s earlier report, which targeted the “disinformation dozen” who supposedly spread “anti-vaccine content,” was repeatedly cited by the White House along with numerous lawmakers in Congress, and it was used as a proxy for questions about the role of social media in aggravating vaccine hesitancy.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
Infidel says
PJ Media and others wouldn’t lose much if Facebook shut them down. Both Facebook and Twitter have become exceedingly mediocre. I do hope that Truth Social – Trump’s social media enterprise – takes off: there have been many so far – Gab, Parler, Gettr, et al, but none have gotten traction so far
LB says
Ah yes, “climate change”, the newest stick the globalist elites are using to beat down the unwashed plebeian masses. “Climate change” is so important, you see, that in the near future, everyone will have their food spending limit based on their CO2 consumption, meaning every food item will have an imaginary CO2 number stuck to it (meat products will be the highest) and once you reach a certain CO2 number, your credit card will block you from purchasing food for the rest of the month because you’ve reached your “CO2 limit”.
Meanwhile, the very same globalist billionaires that are running our lives the way they see fit have recently converged in a COP26 UN summit in Glasgow to decide “emergency steps” in combating “climate change”. Translation: “How can we further control, oppress and inconvenience the masses and take all their money from them?” And how did they arrive at the summit? Why using their massive fuel-guzzling private jets, of course! And what is on the menu throughout the two-week summit? All the meat and barbecue you can eat. “Insects and pods for thee, finest meats and mansions for me.”
If you don’t believe me, maybe Paul Joseph Watson will convince you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWcx97YfWUY
Anyone who actually believes in “climate change” and is in favor of all these extreme measures to reduce CO2 emissions is a globalist puppet. CO2 is plant food, so more CO2 = more plants = more oxygen. As a matter of fact, planet Earth is more greener today than it’s ever been. Not to mention, a single volcano eruption can emit more CO2, sulfur, and other gases than the entire industrial evolution era. Preventing people from eating meat has so little impact that it’s infinitesimally close to zero on a global level, but has massive impact in people’s lives, healthy development and well-being. What does that tell you about the people who want to take it away from you?