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Censoring Inconvenient Truths
« on: February 11, 2023, 04:39:07 pm »
Censoring Inconvenient Truths
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
By Paul Homewood

I came across this work by a climate activist from 2021:

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https://www.academia.edu/46194719/Climate_disinformation_adverts_real_world_indicators_of_an_online_problem?email_work_card=view-paper


As you can see, he is getting very worked up about “climate disinformation” in social media. His study goes on to analyse where all of this supposed disinformation is coming from.

But I have a simple question for Mr Pogson – what do you classify as “disinformation”?


Could it be this, for instance?

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/image-33.png

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/01/11/who-checks-the-factcheckers/

This was posted on Facebook in 2019 by the professional group, Friends of Science. The post concerned an article by the Volunteer Firefighters Association in New South Wales, which reported on all of the forest mismanagement and the role this had played in the wildfires there that year.

Following a “factcheck”, all you get now when you click on the link is this:

 https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/censoring-inconvenient-truths/
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson