Discussing the implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA), Ireland’s Media Minister defends the decision that a government appointed entity will ultimately decide what speech is permitted by citizens. This is the next phase in the control of opposition to the expansion of government controls. We are all traveling at the front of one long continuum toward tyranny.
Are the people of Ireland so weak and pathetic they cannot make decisions or formulate opinions for themselves? Of course not. This is not what government control of information is about. Government control of information is about CONTROL of the people. WATCH:
CTH has encountered criticism for our position on information. Perhaps it is important to step back and explain exactly why we should not be playing by rules established to control us while engaged in the battle of ideas. First, my position:
…”There is no such thing as “disinformation” or “misinformation”. There is only information you accept and information you do not accept. You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.”…
There are only two elements within the public discussion of information, truth and not truth.
In an era filled with “fact-checkers” and institutional guardians at the gates of Big Tech, let me explain exactly why it is important not to accept the speech rules of the guards.
When you accept the terms “disinformation”, “misinformation” or the newest lingo, “malinformation,” you are beginning to categorize truth and lies in various shades. You are merging black and white, right and wrong, into various shades of grey.
When your mind works in the grey zone, you are, by direct and factual consequence, saying there is a problem. You are correct; however, this is where people may make a mistake. The problem is supposed to be there.
It is not a solution to the problem to try and remove the grey simply because it takes too much work to separate the white pixels from the black ones. You were born with a gift, the greatest gift a loving God could provide. You were born with a brain and set of natural instincts that are tools to do this pixel separation, use them.
If you define the grey work as a problem you cannot solve on your own, you open the door for others to solve that problem for you. You begin to abdicate the work, and that’s when trouble can enter.
The sliding scale of Pinocchios is one of the most familiar yet goofy outcomes.
Put more clearly, when you accept the terminology “disinformation”, you accept a problem.
The problem is then the tool by which authorities will step in to make judgements.
Speech, in its most consequential form, is then qualified by others to whom you have sub-contracted your thinking.
When you willingly sub-contract information filters to others, you have lost connection with the raw information.
CTH was founded upon the belief that truth has no agenda, nor does it care about you, your feelings, or your opinion of it. It just sits there, empirically existing as evidence of information in its most pure form.
The search for truth, in all things, is the mission objective of this assembly. Often, we don’t like the truth; often, the truth is bitter, cold, challenging and even painful to accept. However, the truth doesn’t care. Information in its most raw form is ambivalent to your opinion. If you struggle to accept these things, that’s when you need grey. The New York Times is not called the “grey lady” accidentally.
Personally, I am an absorber of information – perhaps on a scale that is unusual. But I do not discount information from any form until I can put context to it and see if the information makes sense given all the variables present. When something doesn’t feel right, it’s almost always because it isn’t right.
Often, I find myself struggling in the grey and complex. It is not unusual to spend days researching, digging, clarifying a situation, only to discover the path to finding the truth is in another direction entirely. Erasing everything and starting over is frustrating, but it is genuinely the only approach that works; and often finding truth is supposed to be difficult, that’s why it is rewarding.
In the digital information age, we are bombarded with information. It is easy to be overwhelmed and need to find something or someone who has better skills at separating the black grains from the white ones. All opinions in this quest should be considered; thus, it is important to allow the free flow of information.
There is some language that needs to be constrained if we are to participate in a respectful society, with grandma’s rules and knowing the audience. CTH has guidelines for comments for this exact reason. However, those constraints need to be based on a set of inherent values. When it comes to information, it is important to draw a distinction from speech.
There needs to be an open venue for all information. Unfortunately, when we begin to apply labels or categorization to information, there’s an opportunity for information to be manipulated – even weaponized. Saul Alinsky spent decades pondering the best techniques to weaponize information and speech. Alinsky’s intentions, in the endeavor to change society by changing how language and information was used, were not good. He devoted his completed rulebook book to Lucifer.
Be careful about anyone saying we need to label or categorize information in order to control or remove speech from the discussion.
This reminds me of recent article from European Conservative which provides current examples of what will be considered “disinformation”, namely, that which is politically incorrect:
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-eus-orwellian-internet-censorship-regime/
Take its 2023 briefing on disinformation in Ireland. The EDMO, we learn, monitors 12 online platforms in the EU member state on a regular basis, both mainstream platforms like Twitter/X, WhatsApp, and YouTube, and their less restricted alternatives, like Gettr, Telegram, and Odysee. The briefing lists numerous “disinformation trends” it has observed in Ireland which are said to cause “harm.” These include:
“nativist narratives” which oppose migration, such as the hashtag “Ireland is full,” the slogan “make Ireland safe,” or prominent use of the Irish tricolour.
“Gender and sexuality narratives” about drag queens and trans issues—these being “part of a wider ‘anti-woke’ narrative that mocks social justice campaigns,” and
“environment narratives” like criticising climate-change policies and Greta Thunberg, which apparently “feed into wider anti-elite and ‘rural Ireland versus Dublin’ narratives.”
Clearly, what is common to such narratives is not that they represent ‘disinformation’—that is, “false information intended to mislead.” Rather, these are the expression of political opinions dissenting against the EU establishment. They represent opposition by the European public to unpopular policies favoured by European elites—in this case, mass migration, transgender ideology, and Net Zero eco-austerity. This startling document reveals how the technocratic crusade against so-called disinformation is in fact nakedly political and anti-democratic. What is labelled ‘disinformation’ is really just any political narrative that the globalist EU establishment dislikes (indeed, even the term “globalists” is branded as wrongthink).
The Irish version of Karine Jean Pierre??? If it wasn’t for printed responses, she’d be mute!
Satan is a lier from the beginning.
Genesis 3:2-5 NKJV
[2] And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; [3] but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'” [4] Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. [5] For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Matthew 4:5-7 NKJV
[5] Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, [6] and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.'” [7] Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God.'”
John 8:42-47 NKJV
[42] Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. [43] Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. [44] You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. [45] But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. [46] Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? [47] He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
John 14:6 NKJV
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Finally they don’t know the truth, they cannot even know the truth when it is standing it their presence. This is why they need to control what information we receive.
John 18:38 NKJV
Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.
The only Truth is from God. Like Sundance says there is information. They can’t handle the truth.
Loved this, Humpty. Thank you!
Dear God, Deliver us from this Evil.
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Fed.
Makes me sick to be half Irish
Ireland has been a socialist country for a very long time. The frog has been boiled and doesn’t even realize it.
Don’t get yer Irish up.
Turns out tyranny and corruption has little to do with who you are or where you come from. It’s just about opportunity for it to happen along with others ignoring that it is happening.
To advance the agenda they must obstruct the truth. Simple as that.
So many punchable faces.
Ireland is lost as has Europe. PC and the mostly peaceful jihad being conducted by the adherents to the religion of peace will make it impossible for the UK and Europe to ever be found again.
Call the I R A.
Bravo, Sundance!
She can’t even answer the guy’s basic question, and she knows why she can’t can’t give a straight answer. They want people to start from a baseline that somehow the government is a forever virtuous entity entirely free from any possibility of corruption. They are sinless. Just ask them.
My grandfather came here from Ireland, and I’m extremely proud of my Irish heritage. It is an absolutely beautiful country with wonderful people. This deeply saddens me.
To Ireland’s credit they did reject the EU multiple times. Now the EU has “Enriched” Ireland.
I think this picture of the media minister tells the whole story. She looks the part that she plays and she is smug enough and dumb enough to think her Government is the only voice of truth, when the opposite is almost always the best assumption. Most of us have no financial interest in being liars.
From what I have known about actual Irish people is that they generally have a healthy amount of skepticism and they never look that vacuous.
Giant obfuscation and word salad. Has she been taking lessons from Kamala?
Majorcas would be my guess for her role model and results likely to be just as catastrophic.
She’s late to the party. Obama beat her to it.
“Those who would make peaceful protest impossible instead make violent revolution inevitable.”
They had best tread lightly. I’m old enough to remember the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and what they did to England in the 1970 and 80’s. They may just rise up and do it again only to the members of their own corrupt government.
On the upside, this may provide more work for Zucaberg’s so-called fact-checkers.
€U Ministry of MAL Information intends to destroy Free Speech content and comments worldwide, one false flag martial law moment away from USSA implementation >
https://theverge.com/23845672/eu-digital-services-act-explained
I like to consider the line from the Indiana Jones movie: “Archeology is the search for fact, not truth. If it’s truth you’re interested in, Dr. Tyree’s Philosophy class is right down the hall. “
The government is everything. Even the smallest town’s elected tell you they work for the benefit of the Town. People no longer matter-they are invisible. The machines count the votes for the selection. Those elected who push to represent the people are quickly silenced and removed by any means necessary. So get on your knees slaves and worship the Govt. A monster that consumes souls.
Taking about truth.
I’d like to know what some opinions are on Palestine?
My buddy and I were going at it yesterday on opinions .
He’s liked minded on most subjects, just not that one .
As fate would have it, a very nice Irish lady named Gemma is interviewing E. Michael Jones on things that the minion above would disapprove of.
https://gab.com/EMichaelJones/posts/110939540133360899/media/1
Ignore the minions. speak.
#LogosRising
Sundance, you are an amazing thinker. Awesome 👌
Government needs to be barred from advertising for big pharma as it is a conflict of interest just like insider trading is.
Event 201–When the War on Free Speech Got Serious
Ya know the Libturds are just sooooo much smarter than the rest of us they should always be allowed to tell us how to live our lives, eh?
notice the name of this evil person. it aligns with others who do evil. is it the name of an irish-born person? highly unlikely. as much as people try to assume ‘good in others’, it seems more often than not that evil tries to creep in under false pretenses.
‘refugees’, ‘asylum seekers’, etc.
look to the southern border of the former US and you will see.
Ahhhh…a free and open Internet would be the end and so…here we are with a debate concerning the propagandist concepts of “misinformation and disinformation”. These things are otherwise known as on a spectrum of simply omitting the truth to outright lying. In life when met with such a person learns things that are forbidden by tyrants: to be skeptical of all things and self-reliant in all things including decision making. My mother taught me-don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see. An apt adage on the road to autonomy, which is verboten by tyrants as well.
As our good friend says “Trillions at stake”. To the conclusion that statement is beyond clarifying.
Funny thing… for the last few days, ever since I made a few observations about the failures of the State and County Gov’s in Maui, my posts on Breaitbart, all of them (*) are being marked as Spam and the Breitbart moderators have no replied.
Looking though my Disqus profile, I see that ONLY Breitbart is doing this.
Who knows?
Who cares, really? Breitbart has become a shadow of what it was and the comment sections has been overrun by fools and political manipulators. Their goal is to bury good comments with noise and hate.
(*) Including one in which I just posted “this is a test”
Truth is not defined by political, academic or religious authorities.
Truth must not need confused with popularity or consensus.
Truth can be lonely and painful.
Solzhenitsyn
When she says, “…with everything we’re dealing with now….” What’s that mean?