New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the latest liberal leader to call for an international alliance to censor speech. Unsatisfied with the unprecedented corporate censorship of social media companies, leaders like Hillary Clinton have turned from private censorship to good old-fashioned state censorship. Speech regulation has become an article of faith on the left. Ardern used her speech this week to the United Nations General Assembly to call for censorship on a global scale.
Ardern lashed out at “disinformation” and called for a global coalition to control speech. After nodding toward free speech, she proceeded to lay out a plan for its demise through government regulation:
But what if that lie, told repeatedly, and across many platforms, prompts, inspires, or motivates others to take up arms. To threaten the security of others. To turn a blind eye to atrocities, or worse, to become complicit in them. What then?
This is no longer a hypothetical. The weapons of war have changed, they are upon us and require the same level of action and activity that we put into the weapons of old.
We recognized the threats that the old weapons created. We came together as communities to minimize these threats. We created international rules, norms and expectations. We never saw that as a threat to our individual liberties – rather, it was a preservation of them. The same must apply now as we take on these new challenges.
Ardern noted how extremists use speech to spread lies without noting that non-extremists use the same free speech to counter such views. To answer her question on “how do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists” is that you convince people using the same free speech. Instead, Ardern appears to want to silence those who have doubts.
While referring to a global censorship coalition as a “light-touch approach to disinformation,” Ardern revealed how sweeping such a system would likely be. She defended the need for such global censorship on having to combat those who question climate change and the need to stop “hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology.”
This so called woman is an idiot, get rid of her if you want Freedom.
The global tyranny at the behest of the International Parasite; an alien, hive minded, chameleonic, creature has gone too far. This time the Entity has over stepped itself; as it tends to do throughout the approximately 3000 years it has infected this planet. Indeed we are aware that more than 110 places eventually brought in the exterminator and sent the pest packing. Now the entire globe has woken up to this creature and human beings are becoming increasingly aware of the machinations of the Beast. The Children of Satan are now becoming ever more desperate and desperate creatures can lash… Read more »
Winston Peters was on Sky news last night and says her Party Is In big trouble…hopefully she will be gone In 12 months…the sooner the better
Shouldn’t the global peons be calling for the censorship of politicians and other liars?
Climate change is what normal, well adjusted people simply call WEATHER!
She is EVIL. Just like Hillary, just like Nancy, just like Hochul, these harpies sold their souls to Satan long ago.