Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Protect Election Integrity - Censor Anyone Who Questions the Election
Last week, Google's YouTube announced that “supporting the integrity" of the election required it to censor anyone alleging that "widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. Presidential election".
By historical presidential election, Google meant this one. Democrats are still free to allege that they would have won in 2000 or 2016, if it hadn’t been for the chads or the Russians.
A huge tech monopoly closely tied to the Democrats, which was sued by the Trump administration over its illegal abuses, censoring critics of the Democrat election fraud is protecting and supporting something alright, but that thing is very definitely not integrity.
Election integrity, like fact checking, is one of those curious terms whose meaning was ‘Orwellianized’ in the last decade. Fact checking used to mean media organizations checking their facts before they published a story. Now the media has mostly done away with internal fact checking and uses fact checking to describe its efforts to censor conservative media.
Election integrity traditionally meant verifying the integrity of the process, but is now being used to mean silencing anyone who questions the integrity of the election. In both cases a term that meant protecting the integrity of an internal process has been turned inside out to mean covering up for the corruption of the internal process by censoring its outside critics.
The Oxford Union invited a comedy writer to give a talk on 'cancel culture' – then cancelled his appearance
Writing on his own private internet forum, Mr Linehan – who was banned from Twitter this summer for violating the site's rules against hateful conduct – said of the invitation: 'Wow, what an opportunity to really get to grips with cancel culture and what it means to our society.
'I'd better start thinking about the line I'm going to take, and give a few examples of... oh wait no it's been cancelled.'
Mr Linehan has been an ardent supporter of JK Rowling, who has also been accused of transphobia.
He was among 58 actors, writers and presenters who signed a letter supporting the Harry Potter author against an 'insidious, authoritarian and misogynistic trend'.
He has also drawn criticism for his comments on the Holocaust. He was condemned in February by Lord Pickles, UK special envoy on post-Holocaust issues, for 'trivialising' the tragedy after he compared transgender children to concentration camp prisoners subjected to Nazi experiments.
The writer's invitation to Oxford had been opposed by the student union's LGBTQ campaign, which said the Oxford Union was committed to 'causing controversy rather than encouraging debate'.
A spokesman said the union had 'acted with poor judgment both in inviting Mr Linehan and in choosing to revoke that invitation, thereby opening themselves to the same accusations of 'cancel culture' they had originally sought to discuss'.
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