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Social media censorship, political war between US president banning social networks. Tiny person on the laptop keyboard looking at the forbidden sign on the screen. Internet communication risk concept

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 18, 2022

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Social Media

Tagged
Bill Maher, Disinformation Governance Board, Elon Musk, Mark Steyn, Nina Jankowicz, Taylor Lorenz}

New U.S. Disinformation Board on Hold Amid Flak From Both Sides

_{Most current controversies are not clear divisions between True and Untrue or Right and Wrong. Government would merely reinforce the Establishment} _{Denyse O'Leary

May 18, 2022

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Censorship, Media, Social Media}

If you’d blinked, you’d have missed it: The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday paused a new and controversial board’s work on disinformation and accepted the resignation of its leader, capping weeks of concerns about impinging on free speech rights and at times frenzied conspiracy theories about the board itself… The Disinformation Governance Board’s director, Nina Jankowicz, wrote Wednesday that the board’s future was “uncertain,” according to a resignation letter obtained by The Associated Press. Nomaan Merchant and Amanda Seitz, “New ‘disinformation’ board paused amid free speech questions” at Associated Press (May 18, 2022) A recommendation as to whether the Board should continue will be offered, we are told, within 75 days. The Washington Post knows who to blame: “How Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 18, 2021

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Censorship, Social Media

Tagged
Babylon Bee, Cancel Culture (pushback), Chrissy Teigen, Christian Toto, Comedy, J.K. Rowlings, Jon Del Arroz, Jordan Peterson (attempted Cancelation), Mark Steyn, Pedro Domingos, Roy Meredith, WorldCon 76}

Books: The First Step in Fighting Cancel Culture

_{Malicious envy was always out there but before social media it could rarely assemble so large a mob} _{Denyse O'Leary

June 18, 2021

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Arts & Culture, Censorship, Social Media}

Many writers and artists are beginning to speak out and take action, recognizing that sharing the cost of speaking up reduces its burden. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 9, 2021

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
Adam Elkus, Ashley Babbitt, Brian Sicknick, Capital Riot, Capital Riot investigations, Capitol Hill Riot, extremism, Mark Steyn, misinformation, Parler}

What Your News Feed Will Look Like If Big Tech Runs It

_{Reading Elkus’s essay, one wants to ask, “Who is the collective ‘we’ who are supposed to be out of control?”} _{Denyse O'Leary

April 9, 2021

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Censorship, Media, Social Media, Technocracy}

In an essay at The New Atlantis, Adam Elkus, a graduate student in computational social science at George Mason University, reflects on a curious change in public panics in recent years: Pundits’ obsession with AI doom has given way to “primal fear of primates posting,” with demands that top government or Big Tech crack down on social media: Once upon a time — just a few years ago, actually — it was not uncommon to see headlines about prominent scientists, tech executives, and engineers warning portentously that the revolt of the robots was nigh. The mechanism varied, but the result was always the same: Uncontrollable machine self-improvement would one day overcome humanity. A dismal fate awaited us. We would be Read More ›

Courthouse with judge's gavel and sign NO. concept of censorship and the production of restrictions and laws on restriction. Anti-popular laws, usurpation of power, conservative views. Lack of justice

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 11, 2021

Categorized
Media, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
America Alone (book), Canada, Disinformation, Free speech wars, Hate speech laws, Joan Donovan, Kevin Roose, Maclean's Magazine, Mark Steyn, Reality czar, Section 13 (Canada)}

“Disinformation”: Do We Really Need a “Reality Czar”?

_{Canada dodged a bullet in 2014. The United States will not be so lucky if it adopts Big Tech's new proposals against “disinformation” online} _{Denyse O'Leary

February 11, 2021

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Media, Social Media, Technocracy}

Recently, a New York Times technology columnist, back from a consult with Big Tech in Silicon Valley, urged U.S. President to appoint a “reality czar” to go after people who provide “disinformation” online. He concedes, “It sounds a little dystopian, I’ll grant.” Well yes, rather. And the czar would probably soon find himself in conflict with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But Kevin Roose (pictured), who says he has spent several years tackling “our national reality crisis”, begs us to hear the czar’s supporters out: This task force could also meet regularly with tech platforms, and push for structural changes that could help those companies tackle their own extremism and misinformation problems. (For example, it could formulate “safe Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 23, 2019

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Technocracy

Tagged
Dystopia, E. M. Forster, Featured, Machine Stops (short story), Mark Steyn}

“Brilliant Vision” from a Century Ago Foretells Today’s Internet

_{In E. M. Forster's dystopia, people interact only through the Machine} _{Denyse O'Leary

June 23, 2019

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Arts & Culture, Technocracy}

In a wholly materialist environment, science and other disciplines have, by preference, ceased to explore anything but their own ideas.