“I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society.”
Indeed we do need to take a hard stance against any attempt to stifle free speech.
Whenever I see words such as "trust", "fact" or "reality" used by authority figures, it's highly likely that what follows is whitewash, greenwash or complete untruths. Below is a quote from a BBC website:
"The Trusted News Initiative is a partnership, founded by the BBC, that includes organisations from around the globe including; AP, AFP, BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Financial Times, Information Futures Lab, Google/YouTube, The Hindu, The Nation Media Group, Meta, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Twitter, The Washington Post, Kompas – Indonesia, Dawn – Pakistan, Indian Express, NDTV – India, ABC – Australia, SBS – Australia, NHK – Japan.
TNI members work together to build audience trust and to find solutions to tackle challenges of disinformation. By including media organisations and social media platforms, it is the only forum in the world of its kind designed to take on disinformation in real time".
Yea, right!
This monopoly appears to be a concerted attempt to crush independent commentators or broadcasters whose content online or elsewhere is not in accord with "official" narratives on major topics such as pandemics. The independents are, perhaps, the primary source of hope and need to be supported. Supporting this and other positive substacks is also useful, even if only contributing to discussion and trying to offer ideas which people can follow up if they wish.
Indeed we do need to take a hard stance against any attempt to stifle free speech.
Whenever I see words such as "trust", "fact" or "reality" used by authority figures, it's highly likely that what follows is whitewash, greenwash or complete untruths. Below is a quote from a BBC website:
"The Trusted News Initiative is a partnership, founded by the BBC, that includes organisations from around the globe including; AP, AFP, BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Financial Times, Information Futures Lab, Google/YouTube, The Hindu, The Nation Media Group, Meta, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Twitter, The Washington Post, Kompas – Indonesia, Dawn – Pakistan, Indian Express, NDTV – India, ABC – Australia, SBS – Australia, NHK – Japan.
TNI members work together to build audience trust and to find solutions to tackle challenges of disinformation. By including media organisations and social media platforms, it is the only forum in the world of its kind designed to take on disinformation in real time".
Yea, right!
This monopoly appears to be a concerted attempt to crush independent commentators or broadcasters whose content online or elsewhere is not in accord with "official" narratives on major topics such as pandemics. The independents are, perhaps, the primary source of hope and need to be supported. Supporting this and other positive substacks is also useful, even if only contributing to discussion and trying to offer ideas which people can follow up if they wish.
Interesting article, with thanks.
My thought: what if "they" destroyed (aka disconnected) the internet globally and ONLY "their" TV stations remained?? We would all go nuts .... 😒