Media and Architects of Online Censorship Law Heap Pressure on Rumble After it Defends Principle of Neutrality
By Tom Parker | Reclaim The Net | September 25, 2023
Media outlets and architects of the UK’s censorship law, the Online Safety Bill, are increasing the pressure on neutral video sharing platform Rumble after it refused to bow down to the UK Parliament’s pressure to demonetize comedian Russell Brand.
The pressure to demonetize Brand came after anonymous sexual assault allegations were made against him. Brand has denied the allegations and has not been arrested, charged, or convicted of any of the allegations made against him.
Several companies, including YouTube, took action against Brand after the allegations surfaced, despite Brand having no content violations on YouTube. But Rumble stood up to the pressure and rejected the UK Parliament’s request to cut off Brand’s monetization, with CEO Chris Pavlovski noting that the allegations against Brand have “nothing to do with content on Rumble’s platform.”
Now, several media outlets and people who helped craft the UK’s online censorship law, the upcoming Online Safety Bill, are targeting Rumble’s stance.
Lord Allan of Hallam, a former Facebook executive who advised on the Online Safety Bill, branded Rumble a “crazy American platform” and expressed disdain at Rumble’s philosophy of allowing free expression.
He and internet law expert Professor Lorna Woods, an architect of the Online Safety Bill, also complained about Rumble’s refusal to bow down to pressure from UK officials and framed it as “grandstand[ing] before the press.”
The Times also took aim at Rumble by noting that under the Online Safety Bill, Rumble will have to “prevent children from seeing pornography… material that promotes self-harm, suicide or eating disorders… violent content… material harmful to health, such as vaccine misinformation” and “take down material that is illegal, such as videos that incite violence or race hate.”
However, Bryn Harris, the Chief Legal Council for The Free Speech Union, pointed out that The Times’ article doesn’t actually provide examples of any of the alleged illegal or harmful to kids content on Rumble.
Additionally, the Associated Press piled in on Rumble after it stood up to the demands of UK officials by claiming that Rumble is a “haven for disinformation and extremism.”
This mounting pressure comes days after the UK passed the Online Safety Bill — one of the most sweeping censorship laws to ever be introduced in the UK. The controversial censorship and surveillance bill is set to come into law next month.
The censorship provisions in the Online Safety Bill can be aimed at both citizens who post speech that’s deemed to cause “harm” and companies that fail to censor this so-called harmful content. The harms in the bill extend beyond physical or direct harm and into the realms of “psychological” harm and “potential” harm. Certain types of “false” communications are also prohibited under the bill.
As UK officials heap pressure on Rumble, reports have revealed that several UK politicians have ties to the pro-censorship Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and the UK politician that pressured Rumble to demonetize Brand received a donation in kind from Google.
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Scotland the Woke ! The police will be queuing up to avoid real crime and jumping on this bandwagon probably working from home with a laptop poking around private lives and jumping to attention whenever the woke brigade complain about the minutia of how they were addressed or their feelings hurt – while burglaries are ignored and violence and murders are unsolved.
Talk about jobs for the boys – dont vote SNP ever .
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The Enabling Act passed in 1933 Germany gave Hitler sweeping powers that enabled him to suspend the powers of the Reichstag and declare himself Fuhrer. The majority Party, the Social Democrats looked on in amusement believing Hitler would make a fool of himself in front of the German people and that would be the end of him. History tells a different outcome wherein the German people came to either support Hitler openly or were coerced into remaining silent through the efforts of the FBI of that time, the Gestapo. Joseph Goebbels, who became Hitler’s propagandist, did for Hitler what Big Tech and mainstream media is doing to Americans today. By censoring and canceling dissent in the US, they allow only what corporatist government intends people to read, hear and see. Obviously a violation of the Constitutional protections enjoyed by the American People against government overreach, it continues, if in secret, through efforts of the FBI Div. V Cointelpro.
Freedom of speech and press are being marginalized and homogenized into a single voice of those in power. Dissent is beinjg criminalized by a “Just Us” Dept. while differing opinions are branded as disinformation by Big Tech and MSM in conjunction with the Biden government. We must call it what it is, when government co-conspires with corporate America to abolish, suspend, or arbitrarily amend Freedoms of the People protected by the Federal Constitution. It is Mussolini Corporatists Fascism!
It didn’t begin with the Patriot Act but it must end with it, if we want our country back.
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