Had to Happen

August 1, 2021 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, Health and Fitness, Political 14

Sooner or later, Sky News Australia would fall foul of the big tech bullies.

Google has banned Sky News Australia from uploading content to YouTube for one week after the news platform allegedly breached its rules on spreading so-called ‘Covid misinformation’.

Misinformation is being used here in a very loose manner. In much the same way as the CCP uses “causing quarrels.” It is simply code for going off message and those who go off message must be punished.

According to the channel, the videos that provoked the censorship included ‘debates around whether masks were effective and whether lockdowns were justified when considering their adverse health outcomes’.

And it cited its commentators who argue ‘masks are not effective in containing outbreaks, particularly when mandated outside in the fresh air’ and take issue with ‘the frequency and mechanisms of locking down Australians.’

In a free society, their arguments would be uncontroversial. But we no longer live in a free society. In the past eighteen months the western world has adopted the CCP model and shutting down those who dare to speak out is a classic totalitarian tactic.

It pointed out the science on both of these points is not settled.

There is no such thing as settled science. Science is rooted in scepticism. Questioning is at the very heart of scientific progress. Google – and the governments of the world are not engaging in science, they are engaging in religion. Like the Inquisition, they will truck no questioning or heresy.

The move comes as Australia’s ‘Zero Covid’ strategy that aims to completely eliminate the virus shows signs of buckling.

What moron thinks that this is even a remote possibility?

14 Comments

  2. Problem is trying to achieve the impossible is the classic mistake someone makes when they are in a job they are not capable of doing

  3. We are entering a dark time in history for the West.
    Everyone must submit to the science orthodoxy. Which tells us the Covid virus is deadly to everyone. That it can be passed by farts. That men can be women. That women can be men. That if you are white, you are racist.

    Honestly, I don’t know what’s going to happen. All we can do is teach our kids to think for themselves, and maybe have a route out prepared to another country, a more sensible country. Or if that isn’t feasible, be ready to lie low and wait it out. Could take a few generations though. *Sad face*

    • Didn’t “President” Biden say the other week that if you’ve been double stabbed then it’s impossible for you to contract or transmit the virus? Well, it must be true if “President” Biden said it.

  6. OT but I’ve been reading elsewhere that the closing of driving test centres over the past year or so has left us with a shortage of lorry drivers. Yet another screw up by the government. Never mind, we can blame Brexit.

    • To give you a feel for this, we are booking new motorcycle clients in for February due to the backlog. I expect my HGV opposite numbers are doing similar.

  7. I work in logistics recruitment. Last year, we had drivers looking for jobs. This year, we have jobs looking for drivers to a degree that is unheard of, salaries on offer have increased 10-20% and still no cigar, and we were easily supplying 20% more shifts in 2019. Not all is due to the license thing but it won’t have helped.

  8. Another problem:
    “Sky “means the Murdoch corporations ( plural) who are almost-fascist lying bullies themselves.
    Couldn’t happen to a nicer arsehole, oh dear

    • First they came for the Communists,
      and I didn’t speak up,
      because I wasn’t a Communist.
      Then they came for the Jews,
      and I didn’t speak up,
      because I wasn’t a Jew.
      Then they came for the Catholics,
      and I didn’t speak up,
      because I was a Protestant.
      Then they came for me,
      and by that time there was no one
      left to speak up for me.

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