UK Column News - Wednesday, 30th November 2022 03:47 - Disinformation agenda: "Triple shield" continues the bogus concern for children's online safety

 

UK Column News - Wednesday, 30th November 2022 03:47 - Disinformation agenda: "Triple shield" continues the bogus concern for children's online safety

03:47 The All-New Online Safety Bill

Daily Telegraph: Social media giants face multi-million pound fines if they fail to ban child accounts

—Halfway down the page, we discover it has largely been written by UK Digital Secretary of State Michelle Donelan

Graphic on screen: Two shields with adults in mind (greater control; freedom of speech) and one for platforms (accountability)

Mike Robinson analysis: So the "legal but harmful" proviso will still be there—just in the platforms' small print, on pain of a 10% turnover fine

Alex Thomson commentary: Intent to cause harm (mens rea) is being hollowed out in court—it now means a strawman might have been a bit upset

09:21 With impeccable timing to help the Bill, BBC's "disinformation specialist" Marianna Spring touts "the terrible consequences of legal but harmful content online"

Craig Evans replies:

You're manufacturing consent for internet censorship under the guise of protecting vulnerable people.

Alex Thomson commentary: Has everybody forgotten John Milton's Areopagitica, the definitive case for freedom of the press?

11:29 Reclaim The Net: Canadian MP Lisa Hepfner says there's no such thing as an online outlet

[Every news organisation that is internet-only is] not gathering news. They're publishing opinion only.

Viewers make the case for UK Column being more than pirate opinion merchants:

UK Column tracked the fear operation in real time.

They also identified most of the people who were creating and running the operation under the Cabinet Office.

Philosophy Doctor—Civil Liberties

Others object with the naïve "We must have regulators for accountability" canard, as if regulators were uncaptureable:

What do you mean by [UK Column being] "right on so many things"?

Opinion channels are biased by their presenters/owners. Without being a member of a regulatory body[,] no one can call them out for being biased[,] which they clearly are.

Henrietta Black

Alex Thomson commentary: The regulated press was silent on the control menace of digital identity and the suffering inflicted by Covid policy when UK Column reported these evident truths 

Incredible how spot on with your analysis you were from the outset! I think the significance of the [March 2020 UK health authorities'] downgrading [of Covid] from a high-consequence infectious disease, four days before the UK was locked down, coupled with the acknowledged infection fatality rate of 0.096%[,] are unfortunately not remembered/known anywh[ere] near enough.

Andy Hewitt

You have to be outside of the UK to realise how much we are all manipulated by the media[.] We are constantly lied to, yet we are given this impression that we are above any repercussion for the actions our elected politicians take. The world order has been changed.

— Exactly[.] Listen to UK Column News[;] that's where the truth is.

Nazar Kullar and Christina Ashcroft