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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
@shellenberger
Jun 17 • 8 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Intolerance is everywhere but tolerance of racial, religious, and sexual minorities has never been higher. Approval of inter-racial marriage, for example, rose from 4% to 94% from 1958-2021. You are spreading hatred of views you can’t tolerate to justify censorship. Please stop.
I read the report you just published. It offers ZERO evidence of a rise in misinformation or hatred. The only empirical evidence is that the use of #climatescam increased on twitter. So what? That’s a legitimate opinion, not misinformation, nor hateful.

un.org/sites/un2.un.o… Image
You hate the words #climatescam and want them censored. Had you considered that the reason people think it’s a scam is because people like you say the problem is fossil fuels and “not simply” their emissions? Do you really think natural gas is worse than burning wood and dung?
Are you aware that 2.4B people still burn solid fuels and that the pollution is far more deadly than that from oil and gas?

Do you consider this “hate speech”? “Misinformation”?

What about denying cheap energy to the poor? Isn’t that hateful?

who.int/news-room/fact…
Are you aware that the US reduced emissions 22% from 2005-2020, and that the switch from coal to natural gas was the main reason? Aren’t you spreading misinformation by claiming natural gas is harmful when its lower cost reduces pollution? Image
Given than natural disasters are declining, isn’t your your apocalyptic description of climate change “misinformation”? Image
Given that most environmental trends have been going in the right direction for decades, aren’t you and the UN a major source of mis- and disinformation?

And, following your own criteria, shouldn’t you be censored by social media platforms?

environmentalprogress.org/the-case-again…
We the people aren’t going to stand for your efforts to project your hatred and intolerance upon us. We’re not going to let you censor us. If this is the road you’re going down, then we’re going to seek to defund you.

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People who say the homeless are just local folks who can’t afford the rent are lying. People live on the street because their addiction has led them to stop working, cut off ties to family & friends, and spend their time & money on drugs. And now new data show just 7% are locals.
People say “listen to the homeless” and so that’s what we did, interviewing hundreds of them for our book, articles, and forthcoming documentary film. Ben, last year, told us just 6-7% are local. Now, SFPD says this is exactly right.
It’s true that many on the street are victims, but that’s because SF politicians let them use drugs and camp on the street where ~100% of the women are raped. Others, like James, are just con artists and drug dealers. They’re honest because they’re unafraid of the police.
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Many say it doesn't matter where COVID-19 came from, but it does. The cover-up of its origin typifies institutional rot. Our leaders have been lying and persecuting whistleblowers. Such rampant abuses of power threaten our democracy and civilization.

nypost.com/2023/06/15/we-…
Now, it’s up to Congress to demand answers from the intelligence community and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.

How long did they know?

And why did they keep it a secret?
In February of this year, the Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, told a reporter that “the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”

Why, then, didn’t he say something sooner?
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In Feb. 2020, after a @nypost oped said COVID-19 came from a lab leak, Facebook censored the story. Why? Because "independent fact-checkers" said it was "False information." Not only was it true information, one of the fact-checkers had worked at the lab
nypost.com/2020/04/17/fac…
Ten months later, Facebook and Twitter censored @nypost for another accurate article, this time about Hunter Biden's laptop

As such, the @nypost , which reporters @nytimes & @washingtonpost sneer at for being a "tabloid," got two of the biggest stories of 2020 right, while the Times and the Post — which called the lab leak a racist and "debunked conspiracy theory — got it horribly wrong.
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After years of official claims to the contrary, strong new evidence suggests the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a Chinese lab. According to multiple sources, the researchers who led gain-of-function research, which increases infectiousness, were the first to be infected. Image
After years of official pronouncements to the contrary, strong new evidence has emerged suggesting the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

According to multiple U.S. government officials interviewed as part of a lengthy investigation by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
In March 2018, the WIV, the EcoHealth Alliance, and the University of North Carolina applied for a $14 million grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency DARPA to engineer “furin cleavage sites” into SARS-like coronaviruses to study how this affected their… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
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The Censorship Industrial Complex consists of dozens of rich and powerful governmental and nongovernmental organizations around the world. That's the bad news. The good news is that Matt Taibbi, Russell Brand, and I are going to take it down. Here's how.
Please consider subscribing now to support our work and watch the full video conversation between Matt and me!

Buy your ticket now to see Russell Brand, Matt Taibbi, and me live in London, 7 pm June 22 in Central Hall Westminster. We will expose the Censorship Industrial Complex and lay out our vision to expand freedom of speech worldwide.

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Jun 8
Stanford wants to "govern" how we get information in order to save democracy.

Naturally, they're calling their new censorship initiative, "Project Liberty."

news.stanford.edu/report/2023/06…
Democracy's saviors, willing and ready! Image
True, they want to control what information you're exposed to. But consider the diversity they bring to the table!
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