DANIELLE SMITH NEEDS TO FIGHT FACEBOOK CENSORSHIP
Facebook playing games with Danielle Smith’s account (“we didn’t suspend Danielle Smith we suspended her “administrator”) should be all the impetus that Danielle Smith needs to bring in much needed legislative amendment aimed squarely at social media censorship. For too long social media companies use “content moderation” as the excuse for censoring, shadow banning, banning and suspending viewpoints that are deemed by the left wing moderators of those entities to “misinform” the public by challenging the orthodoxy of the Davos cult of the “4th Industrial Revolution”.
The Davos Cultists support the award of Order of Canada to people like Tim Caufield for fighting “misinformation”. Misinformation in Canada, on any objective analysis, now appears to be defined as holding any opinion or view that contradicts the prevailing lies, omissions of fact, distortions of truth and outright propaganda promulgated by the Davos Cultists that have, in Klaus Schwab’s own words, “penetrated” the Canadian Government.
In another age, under the current definition of “misinformation”, if one were to say that the kidnapping of indigenous children to be raped and tortured by unsupervised clergy was inherently evil would constitute “misinformation”. Let’s not forget that the prevailing view of Trudeau Senior was that Residential School’s were a positive benefit to the children kidnapped, raped, and tortured.
The forced presumption that the Government of Canada and unprincipled politicians like “Penetrator Trudeau” know best, is a cancer eating at the heart of our democracy.
To the extent that all of the social media giants are now engaged in censorship under the guise of content moderation, they are by definition acting as publishers and need to be deemed legislatively responsible for ALL content posted on their platforms. The social media companies all allege that they are nothing but bulletin boards and therefore can’t be held liable for any content posted on their platforms.
The recent suspension of Danielle Smith’s “administrator” because the content was posted that questioned whether arson was partially to blame for Alberta Wildfires flew in the face of the preferred narrative of the forest arsonists and their supporters who scream “climate change” every time one of their ilk lights another forest fire.
A simple amendment to the Alberta Defamation Act needs to be implemented to bring that statute into the age of Social Media. The current definition of broadcasting in Section 1(a) of the Defamation Act is as follows:
1. In this Act,
a. “broadcasting” means a transmission, emission, or reception to the general public of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence of any means of electromagnetic waves of frequencies lower than 3000 gigahertz;
The definition needs to be amended to read as follows, to bring it into the 21st Century:
a. “broadcasting” means a transmission, emission, or reception to the general public of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence of any means of electronic transmission including via computer, electronic device or the internet. For greater certainty corporations engaged in providing information under contract or otherwise to the general public as social media platforms, search engines or otherwise who engage in any form censorship or moderation of content for any reason other than to prevent cyber-bullying of an individual or to delete “Hate Speech” that violates the Criminal Code of Canada shall be deemed to be “broadcasters” or “publishers” under this Act;
This simple change to the Alberta Defamation Act should make it clear that platforms that engage in any form of censorship or so called “content moderation”, can be sued as publishers or broadcasters.
For too long the left wing has had free run of social media, perverting our democracy by silencing opposing viewpoints.
Any opinion contrary to slogans like “climate change is an existential threat”, “summer is proof of climate change”, “we are all going to die in five years because an autistic high school dropout says so”, COVID Vaccines that the Liberal Government now agrees were rushed to market absent adequate safeguards and testing are “safe and effective” (Lib. MP Housefather) is deemed to be misinformation.
The simple fact of the matter is that social media censorship is a form of electoral interference that is a perversion of democracy. Views that support a sane view of CO2’s role as the cornerstone of life on earth, informed medical consent around inadequately tested COVID vaccines, Alberta sovereignty, and anything positive about Danielle Smith are squelched in favor of the prevailing WEF propaganda.
If Danielle Smith were to take this bold step to take the Zuckerberg’s of the world out of our politics she would serve as a shining example of a real leader committed to free speech and democracy to the world at large.
It’s time to take back our rights to freedom of speech and expression.
Jeffrey R.W. Rath, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B. (Hons.)
Foothills, Alberta
June 16th, 2023