Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/untitled-7 ❖ New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern 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
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/more-escalations-in-online-censorship?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing ❖ YouTube has been deleting videos disputing the US government narrative about Russian war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, validating concerns we've discussed previously that Silicon Valley platforms would begin censoring anyone who challenges the authorized version of events in this
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/lets-back-up-a-sec-and-ask-why-free-speech-actually-matters ❖ The Joe Rogan/Spotify controversy is still going on and has only gotten more vitriolic and intense. Claims that Spotify must walk away from its $200 million contract with the world's most popular podcaster for promoting vaccine misinformation have sparked
Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they're running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else.The reasons for
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/those-who-support-internet-censorship-lack-psychological-maturity ❖ Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for what the platform calls "repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy," much to the delight of liberals and pro-censorship leftists everywhere. This follows the Twitter
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-us-government-threatens-tech-companies-to-push-censorship-agendas ❖ The elephant in the room with the ongoing controversy about the Biden administration's push for more internet censorship is the fact that both the US government and the Silicon Valley tech companies who are being pushed to censor are
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/biden-administration-completely-kills-the-its-a-private-company-so-its-not-censorship-argument ❖ In what's surely the biggest "Imagine the outrage if Trump had done that" moment to date, the Biden administration has admitted that it is giving Facebook a list of accounts to censor for spreading "disinformation" about the Covid-19 response."We've
Listen to "Into The Unprecedented":https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/into-the-unprecedented"Look at her, just staring at her phone like a zombie," the middle-aged woman said in a loud stage whisper which was clearly intended to be heard."She's sitting in an art museum, right in front of a genuine Monet, and she's
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/humanity-is-sloppily-awkwardly-lumbering-toward-consciousnessHumanity is becoming more conscious.It is. This is not a popular thing to say in the more cynical and pessimistic corners of the internet, but it's true.I'm not referring to anything "out there" or "spiritual" when I make this
There has been a purge of left-wing accounts from social media, with socialist organizations being targeted on Facebook and multiple Antifa-associated accounts suspended from Twitter."We have just confirmed that Facebook has disabled the page of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University