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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

MAJOR TECH COMPANIES SET EYES ON DIGITAL ID

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Curtailing free speech by labeling any dissenting views ‘misinformation’ or ‘hate speech’ has been a major game play for governmental and media organizations recently, but now big tech is using algorithms and personal devices through digital IDs for what can be seen as social media censorship. While tech billionaires are calling for vast AI surveillance on citizens, small wins are happening globally to protect free speech.

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0:00.0

Let's talk about what has happened over this past weekend in New York City.

0:04.0

This was the summit of the future, this United Nations. We reported on that last week and what came

0:08.8

out of that was what was called the Global Digital Compact. So this was not a legally binding agreement,

0:15.2

but this is kind of a framework

0:17.3

and member states and countries can sign on to this

0:19.8

and say, hey, this looks like a pretty good idea.

0:21.6

So let's go into this.

0:22.4

It's kind of long but there's

0:23.2

a whole section on information integrity and it says this. We recognize that digital

0:28.1

and emerging technologies can facilitate the manipulation and interference with

0:31.9

information in ways that are harmful to societies and individuals

0:35.2

and negatively affect the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms as well as

0:40.0

the attainment of the sustainable development goals.

0:43.0

So what are they saying there is basically saying, look, we need to curtail your speech because

0:47.7

some people may find that it's harmful, it may come between the enjoyment of their human rights and oh by the

0:54.6

way these sustainable development goals we're trying to change society it may stop

0:57.8

those what they're basically saying right there is you have to told the line of what

1:02.0

we call climate change of what we call climate change, of what we call misinformation,

1:04.9

if we call a pandemic and on and on, because those are all in those sustainable development goals.

1:09.3

And if you don't do that, we recognize that that is misinformation and that needs to be

1:13.2

curtailed but it goes on to say this we will strengthen international

1:16.1

cooperation to address the challenge of misinformation and

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