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RE: German doctor arrested live on stream after anti-lockdown activism
UK government to propose digital “freedom pass” that allows heavily-tested citizens out in public life
Quote:The UK government plans to provide the rather dystopian-sounding digital “freedom passes” to people who test negative for COVID twice in a week. The plan is an attempt to “allow” people a shot at a “normal life” before a vaccine becomes available.
The government is still working on the plan. Once it comes into effect, people who test negative for COVID will be given a document that will allow them to move around in public with no issue. People who earn the pass will be allowed to move about mask-less and even attend social gatherings with friends and family without having to observe social distancing.
According to sources, the “freedom pass” could be stored in smartphones.
“They will allow someone to wander down the streets, and if someone else asks why they are not wearing a mask, they can show the card, letter, or an app,” a source close to the issue told The Telegraph.
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Oxford academics slam Big Tech censorship of scientific study over mask-wearing
Quote:“Independent fact-checkers” – i.e., third party companies contracted by Facebook, Twitter, Google and others to, all too often arbitrarily decide what is true and what is false, are at it again – this time taking on two Oxford scientists.
Their article about a study looking at the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of face masks when worn to prevent coronavirus infection, originally published in The Spectator, the world’s oldest weekly magazine, and shared on Facebook, got flagged as “false information.”
This happened to the consternation of its authors, one of them being Professor Carl Heneghan, who posted about the incident on Twitter where he has some 70,000 followers.
Heneghan said that no information contained in the article was false, indicating that he is aware a similar sort of censorship is happening to other Facebook users, and wondering, “What has happened to academic freedom and freedom of speech?”
What happened here has been happening since early in the year: giant social platforms’ feverish censorship of information around the Covid pandemic, and this is not the first time that reputable scientists and doctors have fallen victim to it.
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Facebook censors former Senator Jim DeMint’s accusations of censorship
Quote:Former Senator Jim DeMint was censored by Facebook for discussing the censorship of scientific articles. Facebook is labeling scientific studies as false information if they do not match their chosen narrative.
“My friend, Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton, was locked out of Twitter for daring to tell the scientific truth on masks: they don’t work at stopping COVID. He simply shared the news of the long-anticipated Danish study of over 6,000 randomized people which came to the conclusion: ‘A recommendation to wear a surgical mask when outside the home among others did not reduce, at conventional levels of statistical significance, incident infection compared with no mask recommendation,’” DeMint wrote in the censored Facebook post.
The post included a screenshot of Fitton’s post on Parler where he announced the censorship on Twitter. The post read, “I’ve been locked out of Twitter for 12 hours for posting this accurate tweet.”
DeMint’s post was “fact-checked” by Facebook’s independent fact-checker Health Feedback, that Facebook consideres a higher authority than science journals. The fact-check label said, “Independent fact-checkers say this information has no basis in fact.”
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Free speech protests break out in France over new law that makes video-recording police a crime
Quote:The French government is being criticized for attempting to limit press freedoms and free speech. The issue is rather weird from a country that has recently been championing itself as supporting freedom of speech – but not so weird considering the various online censorship laws that lawmakers keep trying to pass in the country.
The French government recently passed a new security law containing a clause that banned the filming of law enforcement officers. The provision makes it a crime to “disseminate by any means or medium whatsoever, the image of the face or any other identifying element of an officer when engaged in a police operation.”
Even journalists reporting on police issues would not be allowed to film officers on duty. Breaking the law could result in a one-year prison sentence and fines of up to €45,000 ($53,000).
Authorities have already arrested someone for breaking the new law. On Tuesday, during a protest of the new law, a France 3 journalist was arrested outside the National Assembly. The officers did not care that he was a journalist with the required press credentials.
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YouTube deletes Candace Owens’ “men are not women and women are not men” podcast video
Quote:Political commentator Candace Owens accused YouTube of being “batshit woke” after it removed her podcast about gender identity. It is not clear why YouTube suddenly found the video offensive after being on the platform for a year.
On Friday, Owens tweeted that YouTube had removed her video because she said “men are not women and women are not men.” According to her remarks in the video are not so-called “hate speech” but the truth.
“I honestly cannot even believe how absolutely batshit woke you have to be to believe basic truth to be “hate speech,” she wrote.
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Facebook, Twitter, and Google team up with UK government to censor vaccine-skeptic content online
Quote:Facebook, Twitter, and Google will work with the governments of the UK and Canada and “fact-checking” organizations to censor the spread of coronavirus vaccine skepticism online. Vaccine-critical conversations have increased since Moderna and Pfizer announced their vaccine candidates and governments and Big Tech want it suppressed.
The initiative is to be coordinated by Full Fact; a fact-checking non-profit based in the UK.
The UK and Canada’s governments are also supporting the initiative, as well as other fact-checking websites based in Spain, India, and Argentina.
Until the project fully launches in January 2021, it will be funded by Facebook.
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