Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis has demanded Google demonetize climate skeptics, and provide education to millions of people who have been exposed to “dangerous misinformation”.
If the letter is not readable on your device, the original link is available here.
The key actions demanded:
- Stop promoting climate denial and climate disinformation videos by removing them immediately from the platform’s recommendation algorithm.
- Add ‘climate misinformation’ to the platform’s list of borderline content
- Stop monetising videos that promote harmful misinformation and falsehoods about the causes and effects of the climate crisis.
- Take steps to correct the record for millions of users who have been exposed to the climate misinformation on YouTube.
The people who wrote that letter seem to believe ordinary people are too stupid to figure things out for themselves; they think voters have to be guided into making acceptable choices, by experts like the Democrat majority members of The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.
Update(EW): Elizabeth Warren has just announced criminal penalties for tech companies which spread “disinformation”, if the purpose of that alleged disinformation is judged to voter suppression.
Depressing news.
This is a violation of the 1st ammendment.
Congressman violated his oath, and should be kicked out.
Which one of you guys can solve the great two hemisphere mystery?
https://phzoe.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/north-and-south-hemisphere/
Maybe CSPAN should include a banner warning of “Socialist Propaganda” when covering House Committee meetings. I’d really be interested to see Google/YouTube’s response.
Dear Newspaper Editors,
Today I write to you with urgent concerns about misinformation which is being published in some newspapers. This misinformation poses a significant danger to the necessary social, economic and political transformation which we are pursuing throughout the world.
I write to ask you to cease publishing this misinformation and only publish information produced by reliable sources such as have received my approval.
Your sincerely,
Joseph Stalin
30 January 1930
The Marxist, violence-endorsing Bernie Sanders campaign workers being exposed by Project Veritas have this ecological crisis as a burning reason why they are advocating for such radical change. They think humanity will be killed off by environmental catastrophe in the next ten years. These young adults have totally bought the story and believe they are going to save the world.
https://pluralist.com/project-veritas-bernie-video/
Missing an adverb here…
the purpose of that alleged disinformation is judged to voter suppression.
I can only assume that the Democrats are against free speech, science, and reality Instead of the usual global warming propaganda, what they need to know is the following:
The reality is that, based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, the climate change we are experiencing today is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support the conclusion that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. It is all a matter of science. The AGW conjecture sounds plausible at first but a more in depth analysis reveals that the AGW conjecture is based on only partial science and is full of holes. For example, the AGW conjecture depends upon the existence of a radiant greenhouse effect caused by trace gases in the Earth’s atmosphere with LWIR absorption bands. Such a radiant greenhouse effect has not been observed in a real greenhouse, in the Earth’s atmosphere, or any where else in the solar system. The radiant greenhouse effect is science fiction so hence the AGW conjecture is nothing but science fiction as well. This is all a matter of science. So trashing the economy in the name of climate change is not going to stop the Earth’s climate from changing but even if we could somehow stop the Earth;s climate from changing, extreme weather events and sea level rise would continue because they are part of the current climate. The optimum global climate has not even been defined and even it were defined we do not know how to achieve it.