Column By Melissa Martin
Controlling entry to data is a means of controlling the folks. Utilizing the guise of pandemic misinformation is simply one other tactic to wield energy over the inhabitants.
“Governments are utilizing the pandemic as a pretext to crack down on free expression and entry to data,” in response to Freedom Home, an unbiased watchdog group devoted to the growth of democracy across the globe. Go to www.freedomhouse.org.
The USA authorities isn’t the one nation utilizing the pandemic to erode the freedoms of its residents. Nevertheless it’s the final nation you’ll ever suspect of censorship by way of fear-mongering and dictatorship techniques. Substitute the phrase ‘censorship’ for the phrase ‘misinformation’ and subsequently threaten anybody with a differing pandemic viewpoint.
The Biden administration has not blocked or shut down web entry to Americans – not but.
Will the highly effective puppet masters flip the know-how change and pitch America right into a techno tsunami of darkness and dysfunction for disobeying COVID-19 vaccines?
“A nation of sheep will beget a authorities of wolves.” ― Edward R. Murrow
The Cybersecurity Act of 2015 was signed by Barack Obama; an order outlining emergency Web management. Go to www.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. This government order addressed how the USA offers with the Web throughout pure disasters and safety emergencies. However the energy for misuse by a rogue chief is terrifying. So, can a US president use an web “kill change” by claiming a bogus cyberattack to punish or management residents?
“The pandemic has exacerbated a worldwide clampdown on free expression. In at the least 45 of the 65 nations lined by Freedom on the Web, activists, journalists, or abnormal members of the general public have been arrested or criminally charged for on-line speech associated to COVID-19.”
Freedom Home assesses the extent of web freedom in 65 nations world wide, analyzing points together with connectivity, blocking and filtering, and customers’ danger of arrest or assault in reprisal for his or her on-line exercise.
Are US residents being spied upon by way of web platforms? Is Fb promoting our non-public data to the FBI or CIA?
The USA just isn’t listed as one of many 45 nations by Freedom Home. Maybe the including of America can be subsequent. Thenceforth, will US residents rise up towards censorship and the lack of freedom to decide on to be vaccinated for federal healthcare staff?
“One of many saddest classes of historical past is that this: If we’ve been bamboozled lengthy sufficient, we are inclined to reject any proof of the bamboozle. We’re now not curious about discovering out the reality. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s just too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. When you give a charlatan energy over you, you nearly by no means get it again.” ― Carl Sagan
Melissa Martin, Ph.D., is an writer and syndicated opinion-editorial columnist. She lives in Ohio.
The opinions expressed on this editorial are these of the writer.
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