by: Ethan Huff
(Pure Information) A new report from Huge Brother Watch particulars how the British authorities employed contractors to spy on high-profile journalists and politicians to make sure they adopted the script of the official covid narrative.
Entitled “Ministry of Reality: The secretive authorities models spying in your speech,” the report explains at size how these employed contractors have been tasked with flagging suspicious tweets for potential recategorization as “misinformation” in the event that they contained something that the federal government deemed as “false.”
Those that tweeted offending tweets have been then punished in accordance with Huge Tech’s covid “misinformation” and “disinformation” insurance policies, which in some instances resulted in a ban.
In keeping with the report, there was a particular authorities checklist of offending tweets and related accounts that Huge Brother used to go after distinguished targets equivalent to MP David Davis and journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer, each of whom criticized the federal government’s covid monitoring equipment.
Three Tory MPs have been focused for becoming a member of Parler, a free speech different platform to Twitter. Silkie Carlo and Mark Johnson of Huge Brother Watch, together with Adam Brooks, a pub landlord and political commentator, have been additionally focused for criticizing so-called “vaccine passports.”
(Associated: Parler was faraway from Apple’s App Retailer for permitting an excessive amount of free speech, and was solely allowed to return after surrendering to the left-wing speech police.)
“The UK authorities additionally thought-about flagging Toby Younger posts to Twitter whereas Peter Hitchens and Every day Mail journalist Ross Clark have been focused for criticizing lockdowns, simply as Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham, MP Chris Inexperienced have been focused for criticizing tiered rules and native lockdowns,” reported Reclaim the Web. “Starmer is the chief of the Labour Celebration and Andy Burnham is the Mayor of Manchester.”
The U.S. authorities is spying on and punishing “misinformation” spreaders, too
Thoughts you, what was taking place within the UK so far as censorship goes was way more restricted than what was taking place, and continues to occur, right here in america.
Over there, potential “opinion-makers” have been the first targets of the federal government’s spying and surveillance operation. Right here within the States, anybody who tries to inform the reality on-line faces potential punishment by Huge Tech and the federal government.
We now know that within the UK, a army division referred to as the 77th Brigade was introduced in to assist with that nation’s “data” warfare operations. It was a whistleblower from the 77th Brigade who got here ahead to spill the beans that allow us all find out about his group’s involvement.
That whistleblower “raise[ed] the lid on the ‘sentiment evaluation’ the 77th Brigade carried out, how individuals considered the federal government’s dealing with of the pandemic.”
By way of a variety of Freedom of Data requests, Huge Brother Watch additionally decided that the next have been additionally concerned in Nice Britain’s censorship operations: the Counter Disinformation Unit (protecting authorities response from the Division for Digital, Tradition Media and Sport, in addition to the Speedy Response Unit within the Cupboard Workplace) and the Overseas Workplace’s Authorities Data Cell, and the Analysis, Intelligence and Communications Unit within the Residence Workplace.
“That is an alarming case of mission creep, the place public cash and even army energy have been misused to observe lecturers, journalists, campaigners and members of parliament who criticized the federal government, significantly through the pandemic,” commented Huge Brother Watch Director Silkie Carlo.
As we additionally reported, Twitter employed its personal military of FBI brokers to assist with these surveillance operations each domestically and overseas.
“Twitter is simply one other arm of presidency newspeak,” wrote a commenter right here at Pure Information in regards to the misleading nature of this “social media” platform. “Censor any opposition to the get together line.”
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