Mariner Talk Chat Forum

Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian.com,

Julian King, former UK ambassador to France and now EU security commissioner, wants tech companies to take steps to prevent the spread of “fake news”. It’s a war against dissent, with three fronts.

One – establish the “truth”:

Last week the European Commission announced it would set up a rapid alert system to help EU member states recognise disinformation campaigns
Essentially, there will be an EU mandated list of acceptable “news”, and anything which deviates from that in the slightest way will be branded “disinformation”. This will allow people to dismiss, rather than engage with, views that differ from their own.

Two – eliminate dissent:

King said social media platforms needed to identify and close down fake accounts that were spreading disinformation.

Three – control the narrative:

We need to see greater clarity around algorithms, information on how they prioritise what content to display, for example. If you search for anything EU-related on Google, content from Russian propaganda outlets like RT or Sputnik is invariably in the first few results….All of this should be subject to independent oversight and audit.

The Google algorithm is allowing news that either disagrees with the EU, or is directly critical of it, to be shown in their results. This is unacceptable to the EU. What the EU security commissioner wants is for Google to “fix” their system, to make sure news that deviates from the EU’s agenda does not show up in their results.

CONCLUSION


To sum up:
The European Union’s two major figureheads [Macron & Merkl] are both in favour of an EU army.
The European Union’s flag is painted on armoured vehicles repressing anti-government protests in France.
The European Union is putting aside £4.6 millio (5 million Euros) to “help people recognise disinformation”.
The European Union wants to pressure social media companies into “shutting down” accounts that spread “fake news”.
The European Union wants Google to alter their algorithm, to promote news that praises the EU and demote sites critical of it.
The European Union wants us to understand that this is about “transparency” and is definitely NOT censorship.

How many of you remember this story that is now 4 years old...?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/worl ... peech.html

Woman Becomes First South African Imprisoned for Racist Speech
Video

.....[and here's more Orwellian Shit that ANY Globalist Brainwashed MUSH HEAD will think is a good thing.....Moe]

The Racist Tirade That Sent Her to Prison
A white South African woman, Vicki Momberg, lashed out at black police officers with the country’s most charged racial epithet. Her tirade was recorded on video.

Because of her racist tirade, caught on video, Vicki Momberg is on trial and will likely face a hefty fine.

A white South African woman, Vicki Momberg, lashed out at black police officers with the country’s most charged racial epithet. Her tirade was recorded on video.CreditCredit...Joao Silva/The New York Times
By Richard Pérez-Peña
March 28, 2018

LONDON — If Vicki Momberg had only unleashed a high-volume tirade at the South African police officers, video of it would have been of mere passing interest. But her repeated use of a racial slur — unfamiliar to most Americans, but explosive in South Africa — made her notorious, and led to demands to make her an example.

On Wednesday, Ms. Momberg, a white woman, became the first person in South Africa to be sent to prison for using racist language against someone, according to prosecutors and legal experts. Specifically, she hurled the term “kaffir,” considered the most offensive racial slur in South Africa — so radioactive socially that it is often referred to as “the k-word.”

The 2016 viral video of her outburst at police officers who responded to her report of thieves breaking into her car set off a national furor, and made Ms. Momberg a symbol of the racism that persists a generation after the collapse of apartheid.

Partly because of that video, viewed repeatedly on social media and news sites, the parliament may take up a bill that would make prosecution for hate speech more common.
In a Johannesburg courtroom on Wednesday, Magistrate Pravina Raghoonandan sentenced Ms. Momberg to three years in prison, with one year suspended. Local media reported that Ms. Momberg, once a well-off real estate agent, cried as the sentence was read. The judge refused to allow Ms. Momberg to remain free on bail pending an appeal, and officers led her away from the courtroom.

Her lawyer, Kevin Lawlor, declined to comment.

The decision was met mostly with celebration on social media, in a majority-black country where profound inequality coexists with memories of an apartheid system that institutionalized racial separation and oppression.
But many white people criticized the prosecution and sentence as highlighting what they called a double-standard, because black people — including politicians — have not been penalized for insults and threats of violence to whites.