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🗓️ 26 February 2024
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No one has a monopoly on truth. That’s why we need open, uncensored discussion and debate. Why, then, are the government and Big Tech platforms suppressing what we can read, see, and hear? Philip Hamburger, Professor of Law at Columbia University, sheds light on this alarming trend.
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0:00.0 | Dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth. |
0:07.0 | That's what Jessinda Arden, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, told the citizens of her country during the COVID crisis. |
0:13.0 | Was she right? |
0:15.0 | Is there a single source of truth? |
0:17.0 | If so, is it the government, the big social media platforms? |
0:21.0 | The government and the platforms say they want to protect us from misinformation. Is that |
0:27.0 | what they're doing or are they just censoring viewpoints they don't like? |
0:31.0 | They censored evidence that the COVID virus originated in the lab in Wuhan, China. |
0:37.3 | They censored claims that the vaccines didn't prevent infection and that masking didn't stop |
0:41.8 | transmission. |
0:43.0 | They censored ideas about natural immunity. |
0:46.0 | They censored opinions about election irregularities. |
0:50.0 | They censored reports about a laptop belonging to a presidential candidate's son. |
0:54.9 | They censored evidence questioning the extent of man-made global warming and whether it would have catastrophic consequences and the list goes on. |
1:04.0 | Although the censored opinion was called misinformation, |
1:07.1 | much of it turned out to be true. |
1:09.0 | The government and its big tech allies |
1:11.1 | even suppressed information they knew was true, such as the adverse effects of the COVID vaccines. |
1:17.0 | That censorship blinded Americans to the risk of vaccines and therefore was lethal. |
1:23.0 | Here's just one example. |
1:25.0 | Not knowing about the adverse vaccine events, Ernest Ramirez pressed his 16-year-old son to get vaccinated. |
1:31.0 | His son died five days later due to an enlarged heart a |
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