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May 26, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
🚨The World Health Organization (WHO) is making major moves and it affects free speech worldwide. The pandemic treaty draft, if passed, will hand the unelected global health body new powers to challenge what it considers to be “misleading misinformation or disinformation." Talk about a power move! The WHO has been advocating for this treaty since December 2021. And the worst part? If adopted, it will be legally binding under international law. There's little pushback: reclaimthenet.org/congress-to-in…
May 25, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
🚨 There's a sneak peek into the future of money coming from the European Central Bank, and it's making quite the ripple in the finance world. The ECB is planning to leverage widely used banking and payment apps to roll out its central bank digital currency, the digital euro. An image of Christine Lagar... The interesting bit? This isn't just a strategy to ease adoption, but also a way to subtly introduce the digital euro to those resistant to the new technology. Quietly adding CBDC functionality to apps people already use? Quite the move.
May 23, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
The National Legal and Policy Center, a non-profit that holds shares in Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta, is sponsoring proposals to request transparency about government censorship requests. The proposals will be presented at these companies' annual meetings. Image The Amazon and Meta proposals reference former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki's infamous July 2021 admission that the federal government regularly communicates with social media companies about policing so-called "misinformation." Image
Mar 13, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
Eric Schmidt, a former Google CEO who once said, “If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place,” now says people shouldn't be able to have “true anonymity” when using generative AI like #ChatGPT. ⬇️ Schmidt made the comments when testifying at a House Oversight Committee hearing titled: “Advances in AI: Are We Ready For a Tech Revolution?”