Bloggers, the Death of Free Speech
This CNN piece is a must watch for anyone who wants to witness the media putting into the soft public mind, the dangers of anonymous internet posting along with the ability to speak freely using alternative media. I do not think many coming to this site interested in the material here needs explanation on the fact governments across the globe are rapidly closing down, filtering, and blocking parts of the internet. Many here should have also heard of plans for an internet license so that one’s identity can be attached to their online activities and responsiblity can be had for what they do online. It is not hard to believe that one day soon you may be punished by having your internet privileges taken away, while others remain on the social web, you will be an outcast.
What brought this fate upon the internet? A foreign terrorist group threatening harm on a country using cyberterrorism? No no. Bloggers. Yes bloggers have had too long of a free reign. Saying whatever is on their minds on a website somewhere on the internet. That information can potentially harm others feelings and reputations after all, and that is wrong. So in the same line as political correctness another aspect of language will be watered down and open conversational discourse no longer allowed for fear of punishment!
The video should need little explanation, any veteran listener of MSC podcast should be able to breakdown this conversation as TELLING the people how to feel and react to the problem of bloggers. It is shaped in the same manner as many talking points based on destroying personal freedom are…
It lumps all the bloggers together as the problem,
These television hosts congratulate themselves on making up finding out that this terrible thing is going on all around us (even though no one cared about the matter until the media painted it as pure evil incarnate),
It is full of lies and bogus assumptions (the very same tactics they accuse the bloggers of having.) In fact the basis of stopping the bloggers “abuse” of their right to post whatever they want on the internet, is that bloggers shouldn’t be allowed to make wild accusations that destroy someone or something. Is that not what these reporters are doing who were fed this script to brainwash the moronic masses? Are they not guilty of making wild accusations and basically setting the public discourse to destroy the open freedom of the internet. Conversely destroying the last and best way we have of open communication with humanity around the globe? To me I take this as a much more serious threat then someone slandering someone in a blog post. Even approaching the topic of limiting or using “checks and balances” to control what anyone says anywhere including the internet should be deemed slanderish! Not free speech and communication!
Step one is denying you have a problem and the sick corporate run media is not only denying THEY are the problem they hide in plain sight by telling us, bloggers are the problem. They tell you of some poor woman who almost had her life ruined by nasty comments yet the media does this routinely, to people who have much more to lose. Need I remind, Tiger Woods, Jesse James, Mel Gibson. When these celebrities were scandalized by the mainstream media not only did it cause great hardship upon the stars and their families but in Tiger Wood’s case it cost many corporate industries and even the sport of golf to all suffer a black eye. Yet one person gets offended by a “bunch of cowards seeking attention” on the internet and now we have to shut the whole web down and completely change its nature from a free and open network, to one monitored and regulated.
It is insane how dysfunctional the media is, they speak of the propaganda companies spread about other companies to harm each other over the internet at a little over halfway in. Is it not the media that is threatened by the independent bloggers and using this segment of their show as propaganda to take down the competition as traditional news outlets plummet in popularity world-wide? Every attack they make on bloggers can just as easily be thrown back in their faces for the same transgressions.
The scariest part of the video is at about 3:45 in when they stick in the scripted piece on basically, “[having the balls] to put your name to it” said one of the CNN hosts. The pretty lady then tells you that “We ALL want” …see it has already been decided for you what we all want. You do agree with everyone else right? ‘Everyone else’ being the sole writer of this filth piece. They go on talking how we need to step over the First Amendment of free speech. Finally the last notable section of the video is when the CNN host says certain kinds of anonymous blogging is OK if you are in some 3rd world dictatorship like Iran or North Korea. You know the type of country right? The one where you can’t speak your mind freely and get your word out without being arrested or killed for speaking out? You know the countries right? Iran and North Korea, how about America and all the countries under the EU? We need those rights too because our national “free press” is telling us RIGHT NOW that we need to stop people from speaking out and they need to be held accountable. Today that punishment might be pulling your internet access, tomorrow it is arrest for speaking your mind, the day after that well….people in Iran will be saying “Man those poor people in Europe and the Americas can’t speak their minds or else face death.”
Of note it is my opinion that Wikileaks is not a bastion of golden goose intel to help the good fight. I believe it will be used as a prime example of why the internet needs the regulations and controls. I recently heard a talk by Webster Tarpley where he made it a point about Julian Assange’s continual over trumpeting of Wikileaks protection of anonymous leakers. I think this will be tied in with attack pieces like this CNN story to get the public to go along with the plan. Some basis to my opinion.
Great post, and great follow-through, Piration.
You really picked it apart. Thanks.
Yes people… Be very wary of anonymous bloggers!
They are outlaws here in this Wild West.
I had to laugh at, “…the internet is like a giant world-wide bathroom wall.”
Here’s a kooky thought. – Instead of focusing on the writer, turn it around, and focus on the reader. – How about, oh…I don’t know, maybe… Don’t automatically believe everything you read, and don’t be so easily offended.
I say readers need to be more responsible!
The readers need to be held accountable!
Cyber Security needs to identify these readers so they can be punished, as they are a dangerous threat to International Peace!
Of course there are many pointless blogs out there full of the mundane and inane crap, but thanks to blogging nobody has the monopoly on the truth any more.
In the past couple of years I’ve been doing a bit of journalism, and sometimes being involved in stuff that made headlines, I’ve learned the shocking degree to which the mainstream media often deceive the public, sometimes in very subtle ways. The reporters themselves are hardly ever the ones doing the deceiving – it’s at a much higher level that reports get manipulated, distorted, and on the rare occasion fabricated.
These days, for every mainstream media group covering an event, there will be a handful of bloggers determined to report events as they really happened.
Thank you XposeA and M for your comments on this important issue. I really agree with your point of view on the readers taking responsiblity XposeA. I follow this same principle for many of the “evils” told to us by the media/government. No one in this perverted age like to take responsiblity for their actions anymore. It is one more aspect of the culture creators used to destroy relationships and family. The end goal of these distortions to our behaviour with each other is so that we have nothing left to fight for and no one to fight for us.
M I think it is a good thing for everyone to dabble in some journalism or blogging on focused topics like this. Not only does it help to spread the word but also your unique point of view but mainly you learn a lot yourself when you need to research into topics to write about them. Unlike the mainstream where they copy and paste whatever is handed down to them or make up stories to fill in a 24 hour cycle.
Thanks again guys for taking the time to read and coming to the site.