Guest Post by Jonathan Turley
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.”
“After all, how do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal but noble? How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists? How do you ensure the human rights of others are upheld, when they are subjected to hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology?”
That is the same rationale used by authoritarian countries like China, Iran, and Russia to censor dissidents, minority groups, and political rivals. What is “hateful” and “dangerous” is a fluid concept that government have historically used to silence critics or dissenters.
Ardern is the smiling face of the new generation of censors. At least the old generation of censors like the Iranians do not pretend to support free speech and openly admit that they are crushing dissent. The point is that we need to be equally on guard when censorship is pushed from the left with the best of motivations and the worst of means.
As the great civil libertarian Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”
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If we don’t start exterminating these commie bastards freedom on this planet will be dead…..soon.
They only have the power we give them by our belief in the system.
Do you believe in Majick?
Do you believe in expressing yourself unambiguously?
Most people are naturally inclined to slavery.
Wrong. They have the power they TAKE regardless of consent. And once acquired they will USE that power unless and until they are FORCIBLY removed from positions of power….and preferably the planet.
The left does NOT give a rats ass what we think, believe or want. ONLY what we tolerate.
Ms Ardern is a Marxist witch and the New Z people are cowardly wussies for not opposing her lies and deceit.
It’s a man , baby…
I’m really pissed off with all these women who used to be men. I have to second guess every time something beautiful grabs my attention going about town. Bad enough I hit cars in front of me , if there’s a headsnapper . But when I have to second guess I hit the car in front of me, carry through the redlight and hit pedestrians on the otherside by the time I’m pretty sure that beauty isn’t a post op.
Where I live I haven’t seen a goodlooking female in ages
All I see is 200 to 300 lb heifers with colored hair and nose rings.
You must live in my neighborhood.
I find my mini mares to be quite attractive in comparison to that weird thing from New Zealand !!!
The problem: the biggest liars are governments. Weapons of mass destruction; safe and affective; Gulf of Tonkin, Lusitania, and on and on. Who will censor them?
Don’t forget the “Affordable Care Act”…
> Affordable Care Act
That’s old and busted. The new hotn^H^H^H^Hbig lie is the “Inflation Reduction Act.”
We haven’t won a war in 77 yrs. All we do is meddle in other nation’s affairs like Ukraine, Afghanistan and everywhere else. The U.S. is foolish to rest of the world.
You forgot The Warren Commission Report and The 9/11 Commission Report
I always wanted to go to New Zealand for a big game hunt. Well that is never going to happen…..
Not true.
NZ could have the most exciting big game hunt you’ve ever experienced.
Imagine the planning and logistics to bag this creature they call the PM.
New Zealand is run by a stooge left wing WEF paid for NUT CASE, the same as Canada and the U.S.
The E.U. and Middle east are tied to the WEF via Marxist leaders like Macron. Former Libya leader was killed for not following their agenda.
It is rare to find a Marjorie Taylor Green among women. Most women in politics have been placed there to be compliant with this totalitarian dictatorship agenda that is making its final global lockdown.
How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?
The first step is to determine why someone doesn’t believe in something if it is happening.
That’s why you’re having trouble, because people have senses and those tell us that climate change is not happening, in fact, every prognostication they’ve made have turned out to be bogus. Like that story about the little boy who cried wolf, those in positions of authority have been banging that drum for as long as most people have been alive and none of it has come true. The elites who endlessly champion this cause have a propensity to purchase massive estates on coastlines, not only highlighting the obvious fraud, but rubbing our noses in it.
You want to tackle something, start with that eohippic overbite.
The overreach is more worrying than the overbite.
I’ve got a solution to her overbite. It comes straight from Louisville. It would probably pinch a little.
It’d probably leave deep marks in the Slugger …
OK, aluminum then.
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And there is that small issue of carbon credits…. the scheme by which the elite basically enslave mankind by limiting and controlling the carbon creation of every person on the planet. And of course tax them on their “polluting activities” . If it looks like feudalism, and smells like feudalism……..
“Ardern is the smiling face of the new generation of censors.”
More like the smiling horse-face, amirite!?
All hail the gynarchy!
by Karen Straughan (a.k.a. GirlWritesWhat)
Years ago, when I embarked on my investigation into the feminist movement and what it has become, I subscribed to the understanding that there had once existed a magical age of feminism. Of course I did. It was common knowledge, even among anti-feminists, that early feminism was a noble and well-intentioned movement, and that somewhere along the way it was hijacked by lunatics and man-haters bent on female supremacy.
I was curious as to exactly when, and by what means, this virtuous movement had been corrupted, so I went on something of an archaeological expedition, digging through piles of documents and old news articles and treatises from as far back as the late 1800s and earlier, transcripts of speeches given by well-known suffragettes like Susan B. Anthony.
My unexpected findings were as follows: Feminism has never been a righteous movement seeking equality. The “noble” Suffragettes were soaked in sexism, classism, racism, eugenics enthusiasm and the mindless pursuit of female privilege. The Declaration of Sentiments, widely believed to be the official manifesto of the First Wave, was nothing more than a hate-filled screed, simultaneously indicting and convicting the male sex of the wholesale criminal enslavement and subjugation of all women, through all of history.
I found a First Wave populated by terrorists and elitists who did little to conceal their malice, dishonesty and thirst for power. They were skilled at isolating any given statute from its full context and declaring it as discrimination against women, even when the overall set of laws to which it belonged conferred immense privilege on women. And always, their “reforms” focused on the one, isolated statute, always leaving those privileging women untouched.
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Your most extremely deluxe self will now be heard , BULL SHIT !
As an American Citizen Free Born , I recognize all political elected , appointed or hired as “THE HIRED HELP” in my employ nothing more !
The fact that they perceive some elevated status above the bulk of humanity is a mental disorder infecting their perception of reality .
This must end by ballot box or revolt .
As Americans we already retain the ultimate veto to tyranny at least for now !
“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?”
You end up disarming people and locking them down for not complying with Government mandates to inject a foreign substances into your body with no data to prove it’s safety and efficacy. Or push an idea with no empirical data to support that idea and force people to comply with your idea regardless of the facts no matter how much harm your idea causes.
They pushed the peasants too far , and now they’re squealing because the peasants are reacting. This was a speech borne out of fear , not given from a position of power.
The greatest threat to freedom is WWW (Woke White Women)…of course the man known as Jacinda Ardern falls into that category by default.
Or was it “the latest censor to call for an international alliance to liberate speech”?
Amazing the projection of her own culpability onto the normal people she is able to do. there is a word for that: evil.
“Havana Syndrome” – Microwaved.
Jacinda Ardern, her horse, and her pet Greyhound walk into a bar and the bartender says: “What’s up, bitches? Why the long faces?“
Sarah Jessica Parker Looks Like A Horse
Why would anyone denigrate a majestic animal like a horse by comparing it to some vile animal?
It amazes me how the people screaming fascism are the biggest fascists of all…
Sociopaths always accuse their prey of the very thing they themselves are engaged in.
Liberal means free. “Liberals” are authoritarians.
When you get to the top tiers of government, the sociopaths that are common in less powerful government positions, are replace with full blown psychopaths.
Flea was right, this meme is going to be handy.
Ugly brainless cunt.
Who’d have no power idf humanity stopped believing in .gov and lived their lives free of elected and/or supported “leaders”.
Evil WEPH kvnt.
Nailed it.
Dicks in hand, the little head dowsing rod squeeze-finds out the answers. Chicks with dicks in hand don’t prove gender’s a construct, they prove destruction is genderless.
(But after all the external gonad/estruction, tucked up out of sight gonads will surely be an improvement … is all it takes to convince the Cleopatra puddle to pee sitting down … & to be peed upon by sitters.)
surely there are still burt munro types in the NZ?
She should fuck herself
Because, when she asks, everyone else says neigh?
I wish someone would censor idiots like her.
she looks a lot like sarah jessica parker and mr. ed.
Surprised some Maori hasn’t caved her skull in yet.
This ugly hideous creature smiled widely when asked about all the suicides caused by her draconian lockdowns. She was proud of it.
A question that keeps popping up in my feeble mind: just why is it that we’re now seeing these sociopaths in positions of power and near-power arising almost simultaneously throughout the First World Nations? Is it the WEF (sure, a lot of them are members — but why did they seek membership?)
So many of these misfits are totally into world communism … especially for the First World Nations that produce all of the ideas and the wealth … and I just cannot understand how and why it is arising — TODAY …
Help, anyone?