FreeSpeech and Censorship: Thread

[grarpamp]

Fucking censorship regime getting caught on
camera every week now...

https://twitter.com/iluminatibot/status/1704150599632314711

Jacinda Ardern is a Lockdown cunt queen against Freedom
that desperately needs to suicide herself in shame.


Former NZ PM Ardern Urges United Nations To 'Crack Down On Free Speech
As A Weapon Of War'

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/20/harvards-jacinda-ardean-calls-on-the-united-nations-to-crack-down-on-free-speech-as-a-weapon-of-war/

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/09/25/new-zealand-prime-minister-calls-for-global-censorship-system/

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/announcements/jacinda-ardern-appointed-hks-fellowship

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/08/crimson-tide-a-new-study-shows-the-continued-decline-of-free-speech-on-campuses/

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/16/americas-rising-generation-of-censors-stanford-and-davis-show-the-success-of-the-anti-free-speech-movement/

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/06/05/your-speech-is-violence-how-the-mob-is-using-a-new-mantra-to-justify-campus-violence/

Jacinda Ardern may no longer be Prime Minister of New Zealand, but she
was back at the United Nations continuing her call for international
censorship.

Ardern is now one of the leading anti-free speech figures in the world
and continues to draw support from political and academic
establishments.

In her latest attack on free speech, Ardern declared free speech as a
virtual weapon of war.

She is demanding that the world join her in battling free speech as
part of its own war against “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

Her views, of course, were not only enthusiastically embraced by
authoritarian countries, but the government and academic elite.

    Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech
is a weapon of war, and censorship is necessary to protect free
speech. pic.twitter.com/O8jQMtNs55
    — illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) September 19, 2023

In her speech, she notes that we cannot allow free speech to get into
the way of fighting things like climate change. She notes that they
cannot win the war on climate change if people do not believe them
about the underlying problem. The solution is to silence those with
opposing views. It is that simple.

While some of us have denounced her views as an attack on free
expression, Harvard rushed to give her not one but two fellowships.

While the free speech community denounced her for unrelenting attacks
on this human right, Harvard praised her for “strong and empathetic
political leadership” and specifically enlisted her to help “improve
content standards and platform accountability for extremist content
online.”

I actually have no objection to the inclusion of Ardern as a Harvard
fellow. She is a former world leader who is leading the movement
against free speech. It is a view that students should consider in
looking at these controversies.

However, Harvard has heralded her views with no acknowledgment of her
extreme antagonism toward free speech principles.

There is also little countervailing balance at the school with fellows
supporting free speech as a human right. Rather, Harvard (which ranks
dead last on the recent free speech survey) has become a virtual
clearinghouse for anti-free speech academics and advocates.

Free speech is now commonly treated on campuses as harmful.

Rather than the right that defines us, it is treated as an existential threat.

What is so chilling is to hear Ardern express her fealty to free
speech as she calls on the nations of the world to severely curtail it
to prevent people from undermining their policies and priorities.

She remains the “empathetic” face of raw censorship and intolerance.
She is now the virtual ambassador-at-large for global speech
criminalization.