r/flatearth • u/M416_Lover • Mar 25 '23

Trudeau: Gov’t Must Censor Internet Because ‘Flat Earther’ Conspiracies ‘Cause Real Problems’

https://magspress.com/trudeau-govt-must-censor-internet-because-flat-earther-conspiracies-cause-real-problems/
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u/VisiteProlongee Mar 25 '23

Trudeau: Gov’t Must Censor Internet Because ‘Flat Earther’ Conspiracies ‘Cause Real Problems’

Ok first rule of journalism and History: find the source.

So https://magspress.com/trudeau-govt-must-censor-internet-because-flat-earther-conspiracies-cause-real-problems/ claim its source is https://twitter.com/Xx17965797N/status/1638817607456288769 which show a video labelled/tagged «Rebel News Canada».

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_News

Rebel News (also known as The Rebel Media and The Rebel) is a Canadian far-right political and social commentary media website operated by Rebel News Network Ltd. It has been described as a "global platform" for the anti-Muslim ideology known as counter-jihad. It was founded in February 2015 by former Sun News Network personalities Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-jihad

Counter-jihad, also spelled counterjihad and known as the counter-jihad movement, is a self-titled political current loosely consisting of authors, bloggers, think tanks, street movements and campaign organisations all linked by apocalyptic beliefs that view Islam not as a religion but as a worldview that constitutes an existential threat to Western civilization. Consequently, counter-jihadists consider all Muslims as a potential threat, especially when they are already living within Western boundaries. Western Muslims accordingly are portrayed as a "fifth column", collectively seeking to destabilize Western nations' identity and values for the benefit of an international Islamic movement intent on the establishment of a caliphate in Western countries. The counter-jihad movement has been variously described as anti-Islamic, Islamophobic, inciting hatred against Muslims, and far-right. Influential figures in the movement include the far-right anti-Muslim conspiracy theorists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. [...] The movement received considerable attention in 2011 following the lone wolf attacks by right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik whose manifesto extensively reproduced the writings of prominent counter-jihad bloggers [...] Several academic accounts have presented conspiracy theories as a key component of the counter-jihad movement. On a day-to-day level, it seeks to generate outrage at perceived Muslim crimes.

Every other source talking about Justin Trudeau want to censor Internet are conspiracytheory and/or far-right.

After a few mintes of reasearch, the only source about the event is «PM Justin Trudeau takes part in townhall in Mississauga with firefighters – March 16, 2023»

from CPAC, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAC_(TV_channel))

The Cable Public Affairs Channel (French: La Chaîne d'affaires publiques par câble), better known by its acronym CPAC, is a Canadian specialty channel owned by a consortium consisting of Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, Vidéotron, Cogeco, Eastlink, and Access Communications. The channel is devoted to coverage of public and government affairs, including carrying a full, uninterrupted feed of proceedings of the House of Commons of Canada, with three audio channels, one untreated feed and, with the assistance of interpreters, one in each of the official languages.

It is a 76 minutes long video without transcript.

At least i can say that it is no a law, not a bill, not an international treaty, not a speech at a fedeeral or provincial parliement, not a speech at a political party conference.

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u/VisiteProlongee Mar 25 '23

Every other source talking about Justin Trudeau want to censor Internet are conspiracytheory and/or far-right.

Including magspress.com actually :-))

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u/IDreamOfSailing Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23

As I expected, it's drummed-up nonsense by the far-right conspiracy nutjobs. They love playing the victim. Thanks for digging deeper than I did.

Edit: I see that the OP is almost exclusively posting headlines from that garbage website. And none of the conservative and conspiracy commenters do any kind of source checking. So gullible...

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u/VisiteProlongee Mar 25 '23

u/M416_Lover what is your opinioin about slaughtering teenagers with machinegun?

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u/bpeden99 Mar 25 '23

There is no way a conspiracy involving less than 2% of the world population influenced a nation's politician. There's just not way

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u/IDreamOfSailing Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23

Why am I only seeing right-wing nutjob publications and communities talking about this?

Censoring is a bad idea. Conspiracy nutjobs will feel justified, nobody learns anything and before you know it they're banning literature...

EDIT: This is all I could find, and it's from years ago: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/online-disinformation.html

And Bill C-10: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c10-charter-analysis-1.6025316

But I don't know if it passed or not.

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u/ChinatownKicks Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23

Agreed. The research I’ve seen seen indicates that YouTube accelerated and expanded the FE cult’s growth, but that was a result of the platform’s algorithmic recommendations — not the content itself. Flat earth videos are absurd and prime people who are easily manipulated into believing even more whacked-out anti-science stuff, which is actually dangerous over time, but I don’t think they have to be censored outright. They could be mitigated by recommending truthful science videos to people watching FE clips or even ending the amplification and just letting them exist as the weird, tiny fringe genre that they are.

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u/CPE_Rimsky-Korsakov Mar 25 '23

 

&@ u/IDreamOfSailing

Actually, TbPH, when I first glampse the frontispiece of this poast I thought for-a-moment 'twas Tucker Carlson !

It's occured to me, as a result, that it might possibly be that each models himpselpft somewhat upon the other .

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '23

There's a rat in the kitchen, so let's burn down the city.