California Bill to Create Ministry Of Truth  To Censor Alternative Media
  By John Vibes
  Legislation is being considered in the state  of California that would effectively kill
  free-speech online by placing unprecedented  regulations and restrictions on media outlets,
  especially those who deviate from the official  government narrative on controversial issues.
  The senator who proposed the bill, Richard  Pan, was also behind the infamous bill mandating
  vaccinations for children who attend government  schools.
  According to the text of this bill, titled  SB1424 Internet: social media: false information:
  strategic plan:
  This bill would require any person who operates  a social media, as defined, Internet Web site
  with a physical presence in California to  develop a strategic plan to verify news stories
  shared on its Web site.
  The bill would require the plan to include,  among other things, a plan to mitigate the
  spread of false information through news stories,  the utilization of fact-checkers to verify
  news stories, providing outreach to social  media users, and placing a warning on a news
  story containing false information.
  (a) Any person who operates a social media  Internet Web site with physical presence in
  California shall develop a strategic plan  to verify news stories shared on its Internet
  Web site.
  (b) The strategic plan shall include, but  is not limited to, all of the following:
  (1) A plan to mitigate the spread of false  information through news stories.
  (2) The utilization of fact-checkers to verify  news stories.
  (3) Providing outreach to social media users  regarding news stories containing false information.
  (4) Placing a warning on a news story containing  false information.
  (c) As used in this section, �social media�  means an electronic service or account, or
  electronic content, including, but not limited  to, videos, still photographs, blogs, video
  blogs, podcasts, instant and text messages,  email, online services or accounts, or Internet
  Web site profiles orlocations.
  This bill would place the government of the  state of California in a position of arbiter
  of truth and would allow them to censor any  information that runs counter to the official
  narrative.
  This is especially dangerous for activists  and dissenters, or anyone who finds themselves
  questioning authority or exposing corruption.
  The �fact checkers� that major platforms  like Facebook have relied on in the past are
  proven to be attack dogs of the establishment,  who are obviously approaching the stories
  with their own subjective bias.
  For example, Politifact was caught changing  vital information about Syrian gas attacks
  when the mainstream narrative on the subject  changed.
  Last month, The Free Thought Project experienced  Politifact�s corruption firsthand, when
  they marked one of our articles as �false�  because a local police department changed
  their story after the fact.
  They also used quotes from our staff out of  context.
  Unsurprisingly, this was an article about  guns, the hot-button topic of the week where
  the mainstream is attempting to control the  narrative.
  Snopes, the most popular �fact checker�  is even worse, and we have caught them in
  multiple lies and deceptions over the years.
  Just a few months ago, our staff called out  Snopes for lying about House Joint Resolution
  76, which presented huge Fourth Amendment  concerns.
  Snopes has also been complicit in allowing  flimsy stories promoting a new cold war with
  Russia to go �unchecked� for evidence  or facts.
  Last year, Snopes gave The Washington Post  a pass, allowing them to publish a false report
  about the Russians hacking Vermont�s power  grid.
  Snopes has been riddled with stories of corruption  in recent years, from fraud and embezzlement
  to using company funds to pay for prostitution.
  David and Barbara Mikkelson, ex-spouses and  founders of Snopes, have been mixed up in
  an ongoing legal battle since their divorce,  and many of these details were revealed in
  court.
  As The Free Thought Project reported last  week, the government of Malaysia recently
  banned what they deem to be �fake news,�  and is now threatening 6 years in prison for
  people who share content that they disagree  with.
  Various neighboring countries in Southeast  Asia, including Singapore and the Philippines,
  are introducing similar laws.
  Meanwhile, some European countries already  have these types of laws on the books.
  Last year in Germany, legislation was passed  that legally forces publishers to delete whatever
  the state deems to be hate speech or misinformation.
  Earlier this year, French President Emmanuel  Macron called for emergency legal action to
  crack down on �fake news� during elections.
  These governments say that they are protecting  their citizens from misinformation, but what
  they are really doing is protecting themselves  from competition.
  As many of these politicians have pointed  out, the sea of information available to us
  on the internet has fundamentally changed  the way that governments operate and it has
  stifled their ability to keep the masses of  society bound 
  to a particular worldview.
     
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