Davos globalists push for more censorship to curb ‘disinformation’
Globalists who converged on Davos, Switzerland last week for the World Economic Forum Davos 2023 summit demanded increased censorship due to the “danger” of “disinformation”.
The prevailing theme at the elite conference was that it is up to those in positions of power to funnel the “correct” information to common people, who lack the ability to discern what is in their own interests.
In one panel called “The Clear and Present Danger of Disinformation” hosted by former CNN host Brian Stelter, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) told the audience that while he doesn’t think “lawmakers in America want to give up on the fundamental principle of free speech,” it may be necessary for “public safety”.
"When I have a constituency that I'm trying to keep healthy, and I can't get them to take a COVID vaccine because of misinformation that's propagated on the internet, that's where this becomes a much tougher, more difficult, bigger concern," he said.
Moulton’s fellow panelist, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, added that platforms which fail to create preferred “truth sources” — which presumably would include his own publication — are “poisoned”.
"At some point, given the central role of the platforms in disseminating bad information, I think they're going to have to do an unpopular and brave thing, which is to differentiate and elevate trustworthy sources of information consistently," Sulzberger said. "Until they do, we have to assume that those environments are poisoned."
European Commission Vice-President of Values and Transparency Vera Jourová at one point chimed in to assure Rep. Moulton that the United States would soon have “illegal hate speech” laws.
“For hate speech, we need the people who understand the language and the case law in the country, because what qualifies as hate speech, illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S., we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law,” said Jourová, laughing.
“We need the platforms to simply work with the language and identify such cases. The AI would be too dangerous.”
Although “disinformation” was not defined, the panelists described it as the most “existential threat” facing the world today.
In another panel, top global PR firm Edelman CEO Richard Edelman urged his fellow business executives to boycott platforms that allow alternative sources of information to be published.
"So I think the first thing — because I mostly work with business — that business needs to do, is deprive platforms that spread disinformation of oxygen," Edelman said. "Stop advertising, pull your promotion money, make sure that they understand that they have a consequential impact on society.”
Edelman also praised the boycott of Twitter by some advertisers after Musk took the helm in November to punish the billionaire for his free speech business model.
"And the boycott of Twitter for several months has had a modest, modest impact but I think the Facebook one failed," he added. "But the necessity of getting it right in the platforms that are probably primary source information for a third to 40% of people is urgent."
"Edelman is a despicable human being," retorted Musk in a tweet Thursday. "His job is literally being a professional liar!"
