{"id":10113,"date":"2019-05-30T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=10113"},"modified":"2019-06-05T06:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T10:03:46","slug":"610-how-to-disinform-a-nation-trudeaus-digital-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10113","title":{"rendered":"610 &#8211; How to disinform a nation &#8211; Trudeau&#8217;s Digital Charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/610-digital-charter-168x100.jpg\" alt=\"digital charter\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10114\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20190530-justRIGHT-610-DISinformAnation-TrudeausDIGITALcharter.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister <strong>Justin Trudeau<\/strong>\u2019s announcement that he would introduce a \u2018<strong>Digital Charter<\/strong>\u2019 to protect Canadians from on line \u2018<strong>disinformation<\/strong>\u2019 was a chilling indictment of his government\u2019s ideology and political objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to control the public narrative in his favor as he heads into a federal election, <strong>Trudeau has sought to undermine the very foundation of liberal democracy by threatening to impose \u201cmeaningful financial consequences\u201d on social media platforms that do not censor, \u2018deplatform,\u2019 or otherwise \u201ccounter disinformation\u201d on their sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To call this unconscionable would be an understatement. But given the identity politics that has defined Trudeau\u2019s government as one obsessed with categorizing the nation\u2019s citizens on the basis of race, color, sex, language, heritage, gender, and religion, his agenda deserves to be called that and more.  After all,<strong> maintaining falsehoods requires censorship; truth requires an environment of freedom of speech.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since \u2018disinformation\u2019 can always be countered by exercising one\u2019s freedom of speech so as to offer an opposing or differing point of view, Trudeau\u2019s demands that social media platforms perform this function amounts to a demand for omnipotence on their part.  They are being forced to determine the truth \u2013 in an environment of censorship and threats by government!<\/p>\n<p>By simply asking why Trudeau prefers censorship instead of responding to \u2018disinformation\u2019 in a way that is Just Right, an inconvenient truth about Trudeau and his government becomes self-evident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/610-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/610-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s announcement that he would introduce a \u2018Digital Charter\u2019 to protect Canadians from on line \u2018disinformation\u2019 was a chilling indictment of his government\u2019s ideology and political objectives. Unable to control the public narrative in his favor as he heads into a federal election, Trudeau has sought to undermine the very foundation <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10113' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,59,28,205,6,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-free-speech","category-latest","category-law","category-politics","category-society","issues-censorship","issues-digital-charter","issues-liberal-party-of-canada","issues-social-media","personalities-justin-trudeau","category-12-id","category-59-id","category-28-id","category-205-id","category-6-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10117,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions\/10117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}