The Pending Boot of Censorship
Pending legislation around the world appears set to dramatically decrease and narrow the channels for dissenting communication.
Bill Gates is telegraphing that artificial intelligence will be utilized to hunt and censor those who spread misinformation on the internet.[1] Woke AI is being integrated into apps and will result in monitoring and reporting on individuals.[2] UNESCO and other UN-subordinates are weekly calling for internet censorship, demanding global guidelines for internet speech to silence “insects thriving in the dark”.[3] Washington State is considering legislation to penalize “misinformation” as domestic terrorism.[4] In Hunan Province, China, an application is required for those who wish to attend a church service.[5] Pope Francis often calls for censorship, including claiming that so-called criticism of the Covid vaccines is “misinformation” and a breach of “human rights”.[6]
It seems that the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the list of banned books maintained by the “fact checking” Inquisition for centuries that censored the works of Locke, Milton and Galileo for their wrong-think, is about to get a major software update.
Totalitarian regimes such as China have long carefully and strictly controlled what information their populations have access to.[7] It is far easier to control 1.3 billion people if they are held in ignorance. Shamefully, western companies have shown themselves to have few scruples about colluding with tyrants in exchange for some silver coins.
China censors commemoration or dialogue of the Tiananmen Square massacre for the same reasons governments colluded with Twitter[8] to censor discussion and scientific debate regarding Covid lockdowns and the harmful Covid shots. They are the same reasons the mainstream media suppressed coverage of Hunter’s laptop.[9] It’s true. And it incriminates the powerful.
There is no more precious commodity than liberty of conscience, and its companion right, freedom of speech.
Harriet Tubman said, “I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.” But when she had tasted freedom: “Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.”
“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
The elites are screaming for censorship because their lies are being exposed. Since they have no intention to cease lying and manipulating the masses, their only resort is to censor. And punish.
There is reason to believe the power to censor, monitor and punish dissent is about to take a quantum leap forward. This has broad and sobering implications for the work of the Gospel and those who follow Christ, who is "the way, the truth and the life." The instruction from our Lord is to be as wise as serpents.
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[2] https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/03/06/woke-ai-everywhere-openai-offers-chatgpt-subscriptions-to-app-developers/
[3] https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2023/02/23/u-n-demands-global-guidelines-internet-speech-to-silence-insects-thriving-dark/
[4] https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-bill-would-classify-conservative-speech-domestic-violence-extremisml
[5] https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2023/03/08/chinese-province-requires-government-approval-to-attend-church-service
[6] https://english.alarabiya.net/coronavirus/2022/01/28/Fake-news-disinformation-on-COVID-is-human-rights-violation-Pope-Francis; Francis compares disinformation to snake in Garden of Eden: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/24/pope-francis-fake-news-snake-garden-of-eden
[7] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/04/1025774/china-tiananmen-anniversary-protest-censorship/
[8] https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-files-confirm-stanford-professor-dr-jay-bhattacharya-blacklisted-covid-19-information; https://www.foxnews.com/media/matt-taibbi-calls-out-censorship-industrial-complex-latest-twitter-files; https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/12/09/twitter-files-reveals-troubling-details-of-how-company-blacklisted-libs-of-tiktok/
[9] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-twitter-suppressed-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story/

