COVID-19/Censorship

 COVID-19/Censorship(Censorship)

Date	January 2020 - Present
Interest of	Canadian Institutes of Health Research, InfraGard, Swaledale Mutton, The Post Millennial, White Rose
Interests	Vaccine/Censorship
Description	Dissident thought about COVID-19 is being heavily censored, particularly online, as as discussed at Event 201

“There’s no heroism in any of this. This is merely a matter of honesty. The only possible way to fight the plague is honesty.”
Albert Camus (1947) 

Dissident thought about COVID-19 is being heavily censored, particularly online. The examples here are only the tip of a vast iceberg of censorship.

China

One of the first victims of censorship about COVID-19 was the Chinese doctor/whistleblower who alerted the world to it by posting on social media. He was disciplined by the Chinese government, and reportedly died of COVID-19, aged 31. (Although there are doubts if this version of events is correct).

Event 201 and Internet censorship

Internet censorship was discussed in the October 2019 Event 201, for example as a response to claims that the virus might have been created by big pharma. The most efficient strategy to win the information battle was to drown out other voices, by "developing the ability to flood media with fast, accurate, and consistent information", as even large parts of the world's top medical expertise discovered when they tried to protest or voice their opinion.

Big tech companies

Tucker Carlson

Youtube

After an interview in which David Icke claimed that there "is a link between 5G and this health crisis", Youtube announced that it would remove any posts that suggested the two topics were linked. It also declared it would remove any posts which contravened WHO guidelines: "YouTube has clear policies prohibiting any content that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 as described by the WHO and the NHS."

In April 2020, YouTube deleted a press briefing by two doctors on Covid-19 which had 5 million views, and has also removed other health experts when their declarations are against official policy.

Vimeo

The 2016 documentary TrustWHO („Trust who?“) by ARTE, which deals with the dubious role of the WHO in the context of „swine flu“, was deleted by Vimeo in April, 2020. It found "overlap" between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and WHO. The film is available elsewhere.

Facebook

Forbes reported on Facebook censoring posts about COVID-19.

On 6 May 2020 Facebook Deletes Accounts of Palestinian Activists and Journalists.

Google

Google prohibits ads from running against "content that makes harmful claims about disease prevention and unsubstantiated cures", including anti-vaccine promotions or content that encourages users to forgo treatment.

From August 2020, the corporation is banning ads against content that make "claims going against authoritative scientific consensus." Banned claims would include theories like vaccines being attempts to genetically modify the population, that Bill Gates created Covid-19 or that the disease was a bioweapon made in a Chinese lab. Interestingly "authoritative scientific consensus" would mean that scientists, no matter how qualified, that states other things than the consensus, will be censored.

Twitter

From March 2020, Twitter, "in close consultation with local, national and global public health authorities around the world", banned tweets about "the nature of the virus", "the efficacy and/or safety of preventative measures, treatments, or other precautions", "official regulations and restrictions"; and "the prevalence or risk of infection or death."

Starting in December 2020, the corporation will also remove all posts that suggest there are any “adverse impacts or effects of receiving vaccinations,” or “invoke a deliberate conspiracy” or “advance harmful, false, or misleading narratives” about vaccines, and "false claims that COVID-19 is not real or not serious, and therefore that vaccinations are unnecessary."

"How to (tactfully) discourage spread of false pandemic information"

CBC published an article on this in April 2020.

"Hate speech"

Full article: “Hate speech”

Dr. Heiko Schöning arrested in Trafalgar Square London Protests September 2020.

António Guterres announced in May 2020 that the COVID-19 Pandemic had unleashed a "tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering”, and appealed for an all-out effort “to end hate speech globally." He reportedly "called on the media, especially social media, to remove racist, misogynist and other harmful content."

People

• A Munich, Germany local radio station, which interviewed doctors critical of corona in March, was informed by the responsible media supervisory authority after complaints that „such problematic broadcasts must be stopped in the future“.

• Both in Austria and Hungary, doctors who have criticised the corona measures are threatened with a ban from their profession.

• In Nigeria, according to official figures, more people have so far been killed by the police enforcing corona curfews than by the corona virus itself.

"Mental health"

As with the events of September 11, dissent from the official narrative has been used as grounds for imprisonment on grounds of "mental health"

• Beate Bahner - A German medical lawyer, was sectioned after announcing that she intened to bring a lawsuit challenging the COVID lockdown.

• April, 2020: The corona-critical Swiss doctor Dr Thomas Binder, who was arrested by a special unit of the Swiss police and sent to a psychiatric clinic, has meanwhile been released. A report by the magazine Weltwoche revealed that the doctor was arrested on false grounds: there had been no threat to relatives or authorities and there had been no possession of a loaded weapon. Thus, a politically motivated operation seems likely.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Josep Borrell	“Disinformation in times of the coronavirus can kill. We have a duty to protect our citizens by making them aware of false information, and expose the actors responsible for engaging in such practices. In today's technology-driven world, where warriors wield keyboards rather than swords and targeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns are a recognised weapon of state and non-state actors, the European Union is increasing its activities and capacities in this fight.”	Josep Borrell	10 June 2020
Norman Fenton	“Note that we have no issue with the contents of either of these posts, nor do we know anything objectionable about the posters themselves. The only point we wish to make is that neither has been censored on X for posting on topics we are currently censored for. But there is another perhaps more uncomfortable possible conclusion we might arrive at. That dissent from particular individuals or groups is positively allowed or even approved on X, whilst that from others, such as us, is not. Hence it not the message but the source of the message, or the timing of the message, that is being censored. Hence who gets to tell you the 'vaccines are bad' might matter to Elon Musk and X, much more than the actual message imparted. In this way X appears to be no different from MSM: politics, influence and money may hold sway to varying extents. And this determines what messages people see, when and by whom.”	Norman Fenton Martin Neil	22 April 2024
Věra Jourová	“Disinformation waves have hit Europe during the Coronavirus pandemic. They originated from within as well as outside the EU. To fight disinformation, we need to mobilise all relevant players from online platforms to public authorities, and support independent fact checkers and media. While online platforms have taken positive steps during the pandemic, they need to step up their efforts. Our actions are strongly embedded in fundamental rights, in particular freedom of expression and information.”	Věra Jourová	10 June 2020
Christian Perronne	“I was involved in the management of several epidemics and pandemics, with different governments, and when I saw how the epidemic was managed since February-March 2020, I was amazed. I saw that it was completely crazy. That’s why I spoke out in the media, but now I’m censored in the media.”	Christian Perronne
Search engine	“When trying to triangulate truth these days, it is often useful to employ multiple different search engines.”	Robert Malone	28 January 2023
War/Generations	“People are hitting Google like crazy with queries regarding Jordon Walker, Pfizer and Veritas. As they did when I said “mass formation psychosis” on Rogan #1757, Google manually interferes with the searches, returning wishy washy “these results are changing rapidly” screens instead of actual links. So, now we have a pretty clear smoking gun involving collusion between Pfizer and Google to suppress the story. Then everything, anything, having to do with Jordon Walker, MD gets memory holed. Wiped from the internet, including the Wayback machine. And then the chaos agents, bots and trolls descend on all social media channels. Sowing doubt that Jordon Walker is even a real person. Floating paranoid conspiracy theories that this is all a big deep-fake set up of Veritas, O’Keefe and myself. Which of course get amplified by the usual actors. Now THAT is an example of Fifth Gen Warfare power!”	Robert Malone

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:White House Must Establish Disinformation Defense and Free Expression Task Force	open letter	29 April 2021	Electronic Frontier Foundation Center for American Progress Poynter Institute Free Press Access Now Public Knowledge Common Cause PEN America Andre Banks Ashley Bryant Win Black Center for Democracy & Technology Digital Democracy Project Katy Byron Simply Secure Voto Latino	A number of alleged "free-speech organizations" begging to join the US government in implementing censorship in an Orwellian-named "Free Expression Task Force".
File:Vaccine Crisis Communication Manual.pdf	Wikispooks Page		WHO

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