THE FIRST AMENDMENT UNDER ATTACK

The UN’s iVerify Tool

Remember NewSpeak in Orwell’s “1984?”   During Covid, we learned a lot about how the government and social media conspired to suppress speech covering vaccine dangers, treatments that worked and the true death rates.   Increasingly, all media types seem content to parrot the Left’s approved content instead of digging into stories to find facts which support their writing.  Sure, there’s a demand for faster time-to-market reporting, but we often never get both sides of a story now.  Too often, we don’t hear important news at all.   On top of it, many of us who are conservative-leaning have felt silenced, afraid to voice opinions even in front of long-time friends.  What happened to free speech?

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The UN is After Us Again

Anxious to keep some kind of leading role in the old, the UN is always coming up with idiotic schemes that rarely seem to fit its core mission of diving in to help the poor and sick.  Along with WEF and other global organizations, they are convinced that they not only have the answers to every problem; these answers are the best solutions.  Too often, this group of globalist talking heads has no diversity of ideas to modulate their most egregious overreaches.   Think of a single positive move they have made in the past 10 years.  Perhaps one good thing was their lack of involvement in treating Covid in Africa.  In many countries, everyone takes hydroxychloroquine and has cheap and easy access to ivermectin.  Without lockdowns, they did better than most advanced countries. 

The new plan is to go after “disinformation “and “misinformation,” in quotes because the Left’s definition is whatever they think the “truth” is.   The UN Development Program (UNDP) includes an automated tool, iVerify, which works by receiving data from anyone which is then sent to fact-checkers who decide what “the truth” will be.  They claim that if someone received a variety of opinions on a subject will be damaged, they are “vulnerable’” Who are they?   Given that in many cases, the truth is not a known, the result will be to give governments, institutions and global elites the power to suppress information they don’t like or which interferes with their ability to control us.

The iVerify developers claim they have an in-depth assessment of a “fact” so that “the solution provided to a specific country will not be misused in ways that would undermine freedom of expression, freedom of the press or political and social rights.”   Scratching your head yet?  How can there be country-specific truth?   If something is true, isn’t it universally true?   And so few things are really known.  In science, the truth is what we think we know now.  Reality is always stranger than that.

If the idea is to stop all dissension, how are we free?  The right to disagree, the right to be wrong and the right for both parties to be right in some way is essential to us.   Let’s talk about the right to have an abortion.  To some, it is murder.   Others posit a certain right limited to X number of weeks after which it is murder.  And some favor no limits on the mother.  And on some level, they are all true.   How would iVerify rule on that?

Truth is not as simple as they want to make out.  Very few “facts” play out as such when you dig deeply into them.  For those familiar with quantum mechanics, you know.  Science is deeply weird, not all that knowable and still open to interpretation.  If science is unable to talk about facts, how can there be any “truth” that can be controlled by a group of people or a bot?

Solving It

We need to get the US out of the UN, which might topple the whole megalithic agency, as we are the largest funders.  Kick them out of the NY office.  There is no such thing as “the smart people in the room” who can solve every problem and get to some “right” answer.  The reason the US is the leader in innovation is simply that we are allowed to disagree, fight, argue and work to find a new interpretation. We are also allowed to not ever agree. This is the essence of freedom.

With iVerify, many more people would have died of Covid, as they didn’t have access to “misinformation” regarding treatment.  We cannot control opinions and cut peoples’ access to a variety of ideas and thoughts.  Our First Amendment is supposed to protect even hate speech.  This means it also protects our right to disregard what the UN, WEF or other talking heads think is true.   We have to fight for it.

Challenge candidates on this core issue. If they do not agree with iVerify is a bad idea and that all opinions should be allowed in this country, don’t vote for them.  It’s as simple as that.  We need to get back to our core rights.